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The Holdovers: Held Back, by Scott Nye

The Holdovers calls its shot immediately, with a string of 1970s-style logos for companies that did not exist then (including production company Miramax and distributor Focus Features). Its opening credits, superimposed on various shots establishing the film’s setting – a...

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Home Video Hovel: The Others, by Rudie Obias

One of the big box office hits of 2001, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others is a love letter to gothic horror with its post-WWII British setting, spooky production design, melodramatic tone, and haunting storytelling that engages audiences with scares, grief, and...

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Foe: This Is How I Leave You, by Scott Nye

Garth Davis’s Foe opens and closes with a potentially-deadly amount of exposition – it’s the future, climate change has made the world unstable, we can live in space; oh, and there are lifelike robots capable of taking the place of...

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The Creator: A Spectacular Void, by Scott Nye

Big-budget science fiction is filled with gearheads bereft of emotional urgency. They serve well a modern audience uninterested in storytelling, constantly posting gray-toned CGI comps several degrees removed from an acceptable finished product, claiming them to be among the greatest...

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