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CIFF 2014 Day 1: ‘Words With Gods’ and ‘The Midnight After’

Day 1 begins with two films I listed in my Top 5 Most Anticipated List. Words With Gods Directed by: Guillermo Arriaga … (segment “La Sangre de Dios”) Hector Babenco … (segment “The Man That Stole a Duck”) Álex de la Iglesia … (segment “The Confession”) Bahman Ghobadi … (segment “Kaboki”) Amos Gitai … (segment …

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The 2000’s: A Vital Decade in Horror Cinema (pt 2)

  Special Mention: The Fake Trailers from Grindhouse (2007, USA): The four fake trailers featured in the otherwise disappointing Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double-feature: Machete by Robert Rodriguez, Werewolf Women of the SS by Rob Zombie, Thanksgiving by Eli Roth and Don’t by Edgar Wright-are all very entertaining trips down horror/exploitation film memory lane and are …

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Chatroom’s vision of London may be rather drab, but the online spaces are brought vividly to life

Chatroom Directed by Hideo Nakata Written by Enda Walsh UK, 2010 Is he a kick-ass, a jackass, or just another middle-class brat with morbid obsessions? Hideo Nakata’s new psychological thriller stars Aaron Johnson, who was last seen as the green-suited wannabe superhero in Kick-Ass.  Now he plays a master of manipulation who preys on the …

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