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The Last Mistress

by Camille Gervais

[17.Dec.08] :. French director Catherine Breillat has always been walking a line, often associated with words like 'controversy' and 'censorship'.

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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996): Blu-ray

by Bill Gibron

[23.Nov.08] :. For fright fans, Dario Argento’s career as a movie macabre master started going downhill right after the release of his spectacle splattefest Opera. With the advent of videotape, and the...

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Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[21.Sep.08] :. Fright fans have been waiting for this event for nearly three decades. After 1980’s Inferno introduced the concept of a continuing saga about the infamous Three Mothers, and the...

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This ‘Mother’ Makes Up for Lost Time

by Bill Gibron

[5.Jun.08] :. Fright fans have been waiting for this event for nearly three decades. After 1980’s Inferno introduced the concept of a continuing saga about the infamous Three Mothers, and the...

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

by Bill Gibron

[29.Apr.08] :. If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Jake Meaney

[19.Apr.07] :. Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. A girl made queen by the peculiar forces of 18th-century statecraft, Marie is by turns amused, alarmed, and pissed off, mercurial and imperious as only a teenager can be.

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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006)

by Christian Martius

[7.Apr.06] :. Based on the 'autobiographical' work of J.T. Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things announces itself as 'unreliable'.

 

Last Days (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.05] :. A mediation on sadness, desire, lack of direction... and yes, Kurt Cobain, Last Days seems almost to stretch out its minutes.

 

Land of the Dead (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.05] :. Predictably macabre, darkly comic, and grimly class conscious, Land of the Dead imagines a world where humans turn against each other when facing dreadful fates.

 

XXX (2002)

by Renée Scolaro Mora

[9.Aug.02] :. Xander is a bad ass with a heart of gold.