You have to prepare yourself to live in fear of what is coming while watching The Conjuring. It’s going to get you no matter how impenetrable you may think you are to scary movies.
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Touch Of Noir: Top 5 Film Noir Parodies
For all the seriousness of film noir, its easily identifiable visual and narrative conventions lend themselves to parody.
LAFF Film Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ (Dir. Ryan Coogler 2012 USA)
Reconstructing the last day in a man’s life was the difficult task put to director Ryan Coogler with Fruitvale Station. The events leading up to Oscar Grant’s untimely death on New Year’s Day 2009 is the basis for the story, the sensationalized media frenzy that came afterwards is left out of Fruitvale Station, giving the […]
LAFF Film Review: ‘Concussion’ (Dir. Stacie Passon 2013 USA)
The unhappy, bored housewife dilemma is no longer confined to narrative storytelling about heterosexual couples thanks to Concussion, a movie that gets a great deal of things right with representation, but falters when it comes to the scandalous underbelly of its story. “After 40, you have to choose between your face and your ass.”–the […]
LAFF Film Review: ‘Delivery’ (Dir. Brian Netto 2013 USA)
The blessed event of pregnancy, made unforgettably horrifying in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, has found yet another outlet to promote birth control with first-time Director Brian Netto’s Delivery. Written by Netto and Adam Schindler, Delivery uses the found-footage motif to tell the story of Kyle and Rachel Massy’s road to parenthood, as the stars of […]