Hell and High Water (1954) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Alpha and Omega are conjoined in one of the most memorable of Samuel Fuller’s headline-like cinematic declarations: Hell and High ...
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The Duke of Burgundy (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Peter Strickland’s first two films, Katalin Varga (2009) and Berberian Sound Studio (2013), were arresting works from a distinctive and ...
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Focus (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Glen Ficcara and John Requa penned Bad Santa (2003) before debuting as directors with their energetic queer-romance-cum-criminal farce I Love ...
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Backcountry (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

aka Blackfoot Trail Alex (Jeff Roop) and Jenn (Missy Peregrym) are a handsome couple heading out for a backwoods adventure. ...
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Men Go To Battle (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Francis (David Maloney) and Henry Mellon (Tim Morton) are brothers who own a farm in rural Kentucky, during the early ...
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Dheepan (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Jacques Audiard, a screenwriter since the 1970s who turned to directing in the ‘90s, broke through to international attention with ...
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The Daughter (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Actor and theatre director Simon Stone staged his modernised version of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck for Sydney’s Belvoir Street ...
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Outrage (1950) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A cup of coffee comes sliding along a lunch counter, taken up by a patron who tastes the drink and ...
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Expressway to Your Skull (2014) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

I don’t normally do request reviews for new filmmakers, chiefly because I cringe at the possibility of having to tell ...
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Joy (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

David O. Russell’s recent works have slotted the neurotic capriciousness of his early films, which melded the loose, improvisatory method ...
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