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Kick-Ass (2010)

Kick-Ass isn’t really one movie.

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American Fiction (2023)

American Fiction, the debut film by Cord Jefferson, fills in one of my favorite niches, one that could always use more films

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Stardust (2007)

Stardust is a rare breed: A standalone, high-budget, live-action fairytale unaffiliated with any franchise or extended universe.

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Layer Cake (2004)

Matthew Vaughn rode the post-Tarantino tsunami of indie crime cinema, and has leveraged it into a very industrious Hollywood career.

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The Harder They Fall (2021)

Perhaps what’s most surprising about The Harder They Fall is the fact that it is not subversive at all.

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Self Reliance (2023)

When you see the rating below, please understand that it took some restraint for me not to get even more carried away.

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TV Review Guest Post

Gangs of London, Season 1, Episode 3

“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.

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Birth (2004)

Birth presents us a patently silly premise with clear eyes:

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They Die By Dawn (2013)

Jeymes Samuel had a roundabout path to making films.