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Movie Review: ‘American Carnage’ Is A Brutal, But Fun Tale About The Horrors Of Immigration

Horror films often mirror reality and real fears. And that's the case with American Carnage by director Diego Hallivis. The movie, laced with humor, tackles some heavy subjects, including immigration, and the fear of growing old.   In the...

Movie Reviews: Chattanooga Film Festival Short Films “Cruise,” “Exo Sapien,” “Smile,” “Sucker,” and “Red Is the Color of Beauty” 

Cruise Once, many, many moons ago, I worked a temporary job at a call center, and it was the most soul-sucking employment I have ever experienced. Writer/director Samuel Rudykoff’s horror comedy Cruise ratchets up things to another level as his...

Movie Reviews: Short Films “Night Breakers,” “Unicorn,” and “Bumblebees” (Tribeca Film Festival)

Night Breakers Here’s a creature fraught with suspense not only from potential monster attacks but also from the apprehension and paranoid feelings between characters. A group of people — leader Joel (Andrew Tarbet), Mei (Chacha Huang), Sunna (Anna...

Blu-ray Review: Night of the Demon (1980)

Professor Nugent (Michael Cutt) ostensibly teaches anthropology, but his real obsession is bigfoot... basically this mother fucker teaches Bigfoot 101, replete with newspaper handouts with headlines screaming such newsworthy events as "Lettuce",...