In Ivo van Aart’s dark comedy-horror film “The Columnist,” a newspaper journalist gets bloody revenge on her merciless internet trolls.
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Film review: ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’
“The Wolf of Snow Hollow” uses horror and comedy to forge its own path, and features the last performance of Rochester native Robert Forster.
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Monster movie team taps Rochester sculptor
A live-action short film, “The Molok,” is being planned by filmmakers and artists in New York City and Rochester, and is scheduled to be completed in early 2019. Right now, the creators are making a monster.
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Film review: ‘Raw’
The exceptionally assured feature debut of French writer-director Julia Ducournau, “Raw” is a deeply unnerving coming-of-age story and must-see viewing for iron-stomached horror fans. The film follows 16-year-old Justine (Garance Marillier), a strict vegetarian with a deep and abiding love of animals, who is on her way to her first year of veterinary school. Sweet-natured […]
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If this tour doesn’t kill you
Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier gives his secret to building the perfect, violent tension in his new film, “Green Room.”
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Horror writer-director talks gore, slapstick
City talked with David Bruckner, one of the writer-directors of “Southbound,” a new indie horror anthology.
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Film Review: “The Babadook”
The greatest horror films — the ones that stand the test of time — continue to resonate with audiences not just for the theme park thrills they provide, but because they find a way to tap into our deepest, most primal fears. They can choose to make those fears metaphorical or terrifyingly literal, but that […]
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“Oldboy”
Of all the movies he’s directed in a decidedly uneven career, Spike Lee’s newest production, “Oldboy,” qualifies as the strangest and perhaps the least Spikeish of all his works. To begin with, the picture derives from an unusual source, a Korean movie based on one of those Japanese graphic novels known as manga. Remaking a […]
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“Carrie”
Back in 1998 Gus Van Sant directed a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror flick “Psycho,” which simply duplicated the original almost shot-for-shot, without adding to or changing or reinterpreting the material. Kimberly Peirce accomplishes much the same result in her new picture, “Carrie,” a remake of Brian De Palma’s 1976 film; like Van Sant […]
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Guess who’s coming to dinner?
There are certain movies that simply demand to be seen with an audience. Comedy and horror films typically benefit the most from a group setting; being able to sit in the dark, screaming, shrieking, and/or laughing your head off alongside a group of perfect strangers undeniably increases one’s enjoyment of a film (it’s for this […]
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“World War Z”
The current proliferation of zombie books, movies, and television shows suggests that we now dwell in the time of the living dead, a horrible but not entirely surprising prospect. Born in the 1930’s, the most creative decade in cinema history, the genre reflected some particular realities of its era — the fact of race, the […]
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“This Is the End”
If you’ve grown weary of the Judd Apatow school of comedy — the patented examination of male anxieties in their various forms, starring the usual rotating roster of familiar faces — “This Is the End,” which finds the Apatow players facing down the apocalypse, is likely not going to bring you back into the fold. […]
