Lucy: Half-Assed Besson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVt32qoyhi0 Lucy. 2014. Directed & Written by Luc Besson. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbaek, Analeigh Tipton, Jan Oliver Schroder, and Nicolas Phongpheth. Ciné+/Canal+/EuropaCorp/TF1 Films Production. Rated 14A. 89 minutes. Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller ★★★ I'm a fan of Luc Besson. His first feature film, La dernier combat, is a tour-de-force in thinking …

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens & a Return to Form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 2015. Directed by J.J. Abrams. Screenplay by Abrams/Michael Arndt/Lawrence Kasdan. Starring Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Max Von Sydow, Peter Mayhew, Gwendoline Christie, Simon Pegg, and Mark Hamill. Lucasfilm Ltd./Bad Robot/Truenorth Productions. Rated PG. …

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Tyrannosaur; a.k.a What is Redemption?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG280k72MM8 Tyrannosaur. 2011. Directed & Written by Paddy Considine. Starring Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell, Samuel Bottomley, Sian Breckin, Ned Dennehy, Sally Carman, Julia Mallam and Natalia Carta. Warp X/Inflammable Films/Film4/UK Film Council/Screen Yorkshire/EM Media/Optimum Releasing. Not Rated. 92 minutes. Drama ★★★★★  Paddy Considine is a great artist, in terms of writing …

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Vinterberg’s The Hunt: Stains of Lies & Group Psychosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYn6L5fF9Q Jagten (English title: The Hunt). Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Screenplay by Tobias Lindholm & Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing, Lars Ranthe, Alexandra Rapaport, Sebastian Bull Sarning, and Steen Ordell Guldbrand. Danmarks Radio (DR)/Det Danske Filminstitut/Eurimages/Film i Väst/MEDIA Programme of the European Union/Nordisk Film-&-TV Fond/Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)/Sveriges …

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Back to the Cannibalism of the Wild West with Bone Tomahawk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbwtHi-KSE Bone Tomahawk. 2015. Directed & Written by S. Craig Zahler. Starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, Sean Young, Lil Simmons, Zahn McClarnon, Matthew Fox, David Arquette, Kathryn Morris, and Sid Haig. Caliber Media Company. Rated R. 132 minutes. Horror/Western ★★★★★ This is a movie I've waited a long time to see. Ever since …

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The Last Winter: Larry Fessenden’s Fossil Fuel Horrorshow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_BXNvbr8E The Last Winter. 2006. Directed by Larry Fessenden. Screenplay by Fessenden & Robert Leaver. Starring Ron Perlman, Connie Britton, James Le Gros, Jamie Harrold, Zach Gilford, Kevin Corrigan, Jamie Harrold, Pato Hoffmann, Joanne Shenandoah, Larry Fessenden, and Oscar Miller. Antidote Films/Glass Eye Pix/Zik Zak Kvikmyndir. Rated 18A. 101 minutes. Horror/Thriller ★★★★ It's no secret …

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A Halloween List: The October Non-Horror Fan Horror Guide

So I've already done several lists for October and the anticipation of Halloween. Up until now it's been for those who really love horror, or at least the initiated. This list is a little different. Knowing many friends of mine aren't exactly huge horror-ites, and also realizing tons of people out there like a little …

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Living Dead Halloween Horror Marathon

Without going for too many of the obvious choices, I wanted to come up with another list of horror for the Halloween season. Opting to go with anything from traditional zombies to the Romero zombie to infection films and so on, there should be something for everybody on this list. Maybe the more seasoned horror …

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