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As mentioned here before, we do like world cinema here.  I’ve been vocal on Dead End Podcasts how much I like the Hong Kong action films of John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat, but my exposure to French action films has been more limited.  Forever a fan of Luc Besson (come …

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During the late 1970’s the Kymer Rouge slaughtered almost two million people. Two of those left rotting in the killing fields were the father and brother of Thet Sambath. This documentary is Sambath’s decade long investigation into how and why these murders took place.
Sambath states that his film is “not …

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When you move into the realm of shocking cinema you have to accept that you will essentially find two types of film. It will have something to say and the shock will be greater or it will try to shock and tag on a “message” as an afterthought. When this …

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Next Door is the third feature film, after Junk Mail (1997) and You Really Got me (2001), from director Pål Sletaune and its the first Norwegian made film to get an 18 rating in 17 years in its native country.
Borrowing heavily from Polanski, with a little Lynch thrown in for …

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Reporter Angela (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman Pablo are following a local fire crew for a segment of their reality television series “When You’re Asleep” when the firefighters receive a distress call from an apartment building.
An elderly woman has become locked in her apartment …

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Apocalypto : gritty tribal subtitled epic from Mel Gibson, tells story of falling Maya kingdom looking for salvation through blood & slavery