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Film Review: Intimacy (2001)

SYNOPSIS: Two people with bad marriages get together, trying to enjoy at least one part of their lives. What they find is more devastation and despair. REVIEW: Intimacy is a movie that is notorious for its real, unsimulated sex scenes. It’s starring Mark Rylance, a recent Oscar winner for Bridge of Spies, and Kerry Fox, a person who has given an on-screen …

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Film Review: 68 Kill (2017)

SYNOPSIS: A punk-rock after hours about femininity, masculinity and the theft of $68,000. REVIEW: There seems to be a trend as of late that I’m really digging coming out of the film industry, this trend of course being a rush of balls-out cinema pieces fueled towards violence, comedy, and chaotic absurdity. With movies such as “Mayhem” and “Brawl in Cell …

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Film Review: Rambo (2008)

SYNOPSIS: In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. REVIEW: Way back in 1982, we met John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone, who us action movie loving kids previously met in Rocky), a medal winning Vietnam veteran, in First …

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Film Review: The Torturer (2008)

SYNOPSIS: A U.S. Army interrogator talks with his therapist about actions that took place during a specific interrogation that had questionable results. REVIEW: Written by Graham Green, Richard Loranger Directed By Graham Green Starring: Nichelle Nichols, Andrew W. Walker, Sophia Choi With a name like “The Torturer” one would think that the subject matter of this movie would be rather …

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Film Review: Harlequin (aka Dark Forces) (1980)

SYNOPSIS: A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the enigmatic stranger who mysteriously comes to “visit” him. Possessing uncanny magical prowess and miraculous psychic abilities, the peculiar, but seemingly benevolent, visitor quickly gains a spell-binding hold over the senator …

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Film Review: American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice (2017)

SYNOPSIS: Haunted by the death of his father and other psychological traumas, Daniel (Roberto Scorza) returns to the home where he was raised. Faced with intense emotional scars, as well as physical — which are realized by the years of self-harm depicted by the cuttings adorning his body — he enters the bathroom to begin a journey of self-exploration, self-mutilation …

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Film Review: Possession (1981)

SYNOPSIS: After a woman tells her husband that she wants a divorce she starts acting stranger and stranger as some pretty bizarre things begin to happen all around them.  REVIEW: I know this guy that fancies himself as some sort of intellectual (even though he isn’t as nearly smart as he thinks he is) that only watches “intelligent” movies that the …

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