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Caddo Lake 2024
The misadventures befalling people living beside waters seems as if it’s shaping up to be a horror, but then it slowly begins to bend the mind. The payoff is rather breathtaking, both genealogically and otherwise, richly rewarding one’s patience.
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Fearless 2006
Some of the cliches of dynastic Chinese martial arts cinema, like occasionally defying gravity and physics, in no way detract from this quasi-historical tale and instead add to its charm. Exciting, moving, redemptive, tragic, epic, and ultimately inspiring, it is one of the greatest films of the genre.
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Moonfire 1973
An absolute dud of a movie, Moonfire is essentially a trucker flick with an identity crisis. Big rigs, yes, and big rig drivers, but also a biker gang, and a nazi, and Mexican banditos dressed like they just came from the set of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It fails at building tension, it fails with its attempts at comedy, it fails at actually telling any sort of story at all. An experimental rocket, a stab at blaxploitation, a little…
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Poltergeist 2015
A completely unnecessary remake. However, modern audiences who did not see the 1982 film in theaters, especially if they weren’t children at the time, likely won’t find the original version either groundbreaking or scary. This 2015 retread is, at least, peppered with bits sufficiently creepy for a 2015 audience and is better than the typical PG-13 date night fright fare.
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