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PLOT: A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes she made a deadly...
PLOT: A videographer (Desiree Akhavan) travels to a remote cabin in the woods, where a man claiming to be a serial killer (Mark Duplass) asks her to make a documentary about his crimes. REVIEW: Patrick Brice’s CREEP had a strange...
PLOT: A teenaged girl enters the convent to become a nun, which requires a year of intense training and discipline. REVIEW: It’s often easier to flat-out hate a movie than to feel ambivalent about it. My problem with NOVITIATE, the...
"Arrow Recommends is a column that has my sorry ass advise older movies to your royal asses. I will be flexible in terms of genres i.e. I will cover whatever the bleep I want. For now, it will be the...
PLOT: An alcoholic cop tracks down a murderer known as The Snowman, Norway’s first serial killer. REVIEW: I had heard the bad buzz about THE SNOWMAN walking into it, but so what? Watching the opening credits, my eyes lit up...
PLOT: A group of tourists decide to make their way into the Bolivian jungle. As they trek deeper into the mysterious Amazon, they find that the elements are far more dangerous than they had expected. REVIEW: After years of playing...
PLOT: In 1970s Michigan, a young boy finds a clue about his missing father and decides to pursue it all the way to New York. In 1920s New York, a young deaf girl attempts to make a connection with her...
PLOT: Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender), an alcoholic Oslo detective, investigates a string of serial killings targeting women, where the killer’s signature is an ominous snowman. REVIEW: THE SNOWMAN should have been a prestige offering, with director Tomas Alfredson coming off...
PLOT: In a near future where the earth is protected by a weather controlling space station called “Dutch Boy”, a massive array of storms, directly caused by the now malfunctioning station, results in an international mission headed by its disgraced...
PLOT: Yossi Ghinsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), an Israeli backpacker traveling through South America, endures a harrowing journey of survival when getting lost alone in the Amazon Jungle for 19 days. REVIEW: I’m convinced those critically castigating Greg McLean’s new film JUNGLE...
David Robert Mitchell has made one of the best Amblin-esque films in years, with the film having much in common with classics like Poltergeist and Arachnophobia.