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Three Identical Strangers

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Release: Friday, June 29, 2018 (limited) →Theater Directed by: Tim Wardle Significant spoilers follow. Documentarian Tim Wardle stunned the Sundance crowd earlier this year when he premiered Three Identical Strangers, the remarkable true story of a set of triplets separated at birth who by sheer chance were reunited at the age of 19. Call it one of … Continue reading Three Identical Strangers

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Unsane

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Release: Friday, March 23, 2018 →Theater Written by: Jonathan Bernstein; James Greer Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh is to date the most recognizable filmmaker to have publicly touted the virtues of making movies using your own smartphone. We aren't talking Instagram videos of course, but full-length feature films. In this case, a gritty horror film about a … Continue reading Unsane

What Happened to Monday (Seven Sisters)

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Release: Friday, August 18, 2017 (Netflix) →Netflix Written by: Max Botkin; Kerry Williamson Directed by: Tommy Wirkola In the context of Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola's dystopian crime thriller What Happened to Monday -- a.k.a. Seven Sisters -- China's methods of dealing with an extraordinary overpopulation crisis would be no less controversial but they would also no longer be the exception; rather, the opposite. … Continue reading What Happened to Monday (Seven Sisters)

Train to Busan

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Release: Friday, July 22, 2016 (limited)  [Netflix] Written by: Yeon Sang-ho Directed by: Yeon Sang-ho Train to Busan is a breathless and brutal South Korean zombie flick that broke a number of records last year, becoming the first Korean feature to breach the $1 million mark at the Singaporean box office. Over the past several months it has taken the … Continue reading Train to Busan

Trash Fire

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Release: Friday, November 4, 2016 (limited) [Netflix] Written by: Richard Bates Jr. Directed by: Richard Bates Jr. Richard Bates Jr's third film revolves around a family you'll be glad you're not a part of. That might be the understatement of the year. You've never seen family dysfunction like this, unless of course you have seen Psycho. Not that I'm … Continue reading Trash Fire

Passengers

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Release: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Jon Spaihts Directed by: Morten Tyldum Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian director who has been on the fast-track to success ever since bursting on to the world stage in 2011 with his critically acclaimed Headhunters, an action thriller based upon a novel by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø and featuring a Scandinavian cast. He's never looked … Continue reading Passengers

30-for-30: No Más

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Release: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 [Netflix] Directed by: Eric Drath Spectators historically aren't accustomed to seeing a professional boxer not finish what they started -- at least, not voluntarily. When Roberto Durán, the man with two of the most devastating fists in all of boxing, waved his gloves at his opponent in the 8th round of a 15-round bout signifying … Continue reading 30-for-30: No Más