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  • September 5

    ★★★

  • The Manchurian Candidate

    ★★★★★

  • The Order

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

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  • Presence

    Presence

    ★★★

    Worth a watch just for the uber-low budget and POV conceit. Never scary, razor-thin plot, and because there is such a detached  view of the goings-on, what should be a harrowing and emotional moment at the climax is neither. But still, it’s a fun experiment and held my attention.

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

    Not great, not bad, gets a bit silly in the climax. I hope a certain dead actor's estate made a good deal and this wasn't one of those "we own your likeness" situations, which I wouldn't put it past Weyland Yutani.

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  • Enter Laughing

    Enter Laughing

    ★★★½

    “Enter Laughing,” written and directed by Carl Reiner (his first film ,based on his book and subsequent stage play) is a comic coming of age story of a Daivd (Reni Santoni), a young man working in a machinist shop who in his off time is pursuing his dream to be an actor. The film follows the pains he endures to become part of an non-paying off-off-off-Broadway production directed by and starring a has-been alcoholic actor (Jose Ferrer) and his daughter…

  • The Couch

    The Couch

    ★★½

    From a script co-written by Blake Edwards and director Owen Crump, “The Couch” is a 1962 oddity that tried to cash in on the normal looking guy who’s a psycho craze given a boost two years earlier by, well, “Psycho.” The film stars Grant Williams (“The Incredible Shrinking Man”) as Charles Campbell, a (we learn later) former rapist who spends his time on the way to appointments with his psychiatrist by murdering people at random on LA Streets at exactly…