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September 11, 2023

Monday Movie: The Pinochet Case, by Dayne Linford

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Pinochet Case originally ran as a home video review. Living in America, it’s often easy to think of large portions of the world simply as...

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March 17, 2022

Alice: True and False, by Dayne Linford

The phrase “inspired by true events” is notorious for doing a lot of heavy lifting across film as a medium, gearing the audience up to receive what’s coming as a kind of flashcard for real events. Sometimes, however, the true...

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November 16, 2021

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October 21, 2021

Needle in a Timestack: Lonely Are the Pre-Determined, by Dayne Linford

Time and intimacy are two of the great, opposing pleasures of film, wrapped up in each other like quarreling lovers. Neither the beautiful, monumental face close enough to touch, nor the singular, brief moment arrested forever, will last when the...

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August 22, 2021

Cryptozoo: Joe Exotic’s Lonely Hearts Club Zoo, by Dayne Linford

Long before Tiger King hawked his exotic wares in a country with more captive domestic tigers than exist in the wild, the zoo itself was created to service the imperial tastes of European kings eager to flaunt their reach with...

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August 16, 2021

The Meaning of Hitler: The Prism of Remembrance, by Dayne Linford

In a mad little carousel, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Guiness, and many other notable or otherwise actors take their dose of cyanide, then lift a pistol to their heads, one after the other. Still more disappear behind bunker doors, like Bruno...

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July 14, 2021

The Sleepless Unrest: Noise to Signal and Back Again, by Dayne Linford

Marooned following the cancellation of SyFy’s infamous Ghost Hunters, directors Kendall and Vera Whelpton pursue similar material in Sleepless Unrest, concerning the reputed real-life counterpart to the home from The Conjuring. With the turgid pace of a particularly long reality-in-name-only...

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June 17, 2021

The Birthday Cake: Jumbled Flavors, by Dayne Linford

Caught between the movies it wants to be and the movie it is, The Birthday Cake struggles tonally from the first scene to the last. Gio (Shiloh Fernandez) travels across Brooklyn to deliver a cake to his Uncle Angelo (Val...

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June 12, 2021

Monuments: Cliches like White Monuments, by Dayne Linford

Rather than mature, the indie dramedy has instead long since calcified into a brittle sub-genre, too inured with its perennial sadsack subject to achieve any real impact. This basic convention of a largely inoffensive, immature man-baby who responds to emotional...