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Jacob’s Ladder: A Proxy War

The Vietnam timeline continues throughout the entire film, the truth slowly revealed in bits and pieces as it comes back to Jake. In the modern timeline, we're never sure if it's really happening or the entire thing is a fabrication...

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Se7en: The Diner Scene

"David and I are going to have a baby..." Accompanied by an absolutely miserable expression. She says "going to" as if she's positive about her decision to go through with the pregnancy, but her inflection flips the meaning of her words around. The subtext is...

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The Platform

During the fascist Franco regime in Spain, Basque nationalists eventually rose to the point of committing domestic terrorism in the name of social change. The Platform aligns with this swift glide into barbarism by showing the flaws in "trickle-down" economics...

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New Episodes of The 811’s Anatomy of Horror

New Episodes: Anatomy of Horror Episode 6: It Follows In his masterful debut film, director David Robert Mitchell creates a visually stunning film unlike any other. With too much symblism to mine, we focus on a series of motifs that represent a time in one's life that exists between childhood...

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