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Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) Movie Review
“Night of the Bloody Apes” is a slice of schlock horror from 1968 which has long enjoyed a cult following, not least due to its high quotient of sex and violence, which actually led...
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Movie Review
The 1930s were a terrible time in Spain. Mired in a vicious civil war that saw both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia use Spain as a practice ground for WWII, the country descended into...
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Cronicas (2004) Movie Review
In today’s world of around the clock global news coverage, one gets the sense that all too often the news media has been growing desperate for material to fill airtime, and that this has...
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Amores Perros (2000) Movie Review
“Amores Perros” (which roughly translates as ‘Love’s a bitch’) was the feature debut of Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who later went Hollywood with the gritty gloom of “21 Grams”. The film has earned...
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Santa Sangre (1989) Movie Review
Amongst the innumerable film directors that have come and gone over the roughly 100 years of motion picture history, there have always been a few who have stood out for being mavericks. Directors such...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Movie Review
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” (aka “And Your Mother Too”) is a simple Road Movie, and as such, it has all the right combination of character and revelations one expects from a movie...
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The Devil’s Backbone (2001) Movie Review
Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” wants to be an old-fashioned ghost story, but it’s really just old-fashioned, with some excellent special effects making intermittent appearances to liven things up. For its first 50...
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