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  • Where Have Paranoid Thrillers Gone?

    I’m trying out writing some thoughts beyond reviews, because I just don’t have the time and money to watch enough movies to provide as much content as I would like. This particular feature is going to be just a little article about the genre of “paranoid thrillers.” The paranoid thriller is a genre defined by…

  • Movie Review: “Divergent” (Neil Burger, USA 2014)

    Neil Burger’s career as a director has been awful. He directed The Illusionist (USA/Czech Republic 2006)—an awful, pointless film that seems to have been released at the same time as The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, USA/UK 2006) in order to confuse viewers into going to watch the wrong film. Then he made an entire film based…

  • Movie Review: “Ministry of Fear” (Fritz Lang, USA 1944)

    I spent much of this film’s 87-minute run time trying to figure out what exactly Lang was trying to say, but the film’s final moment made it clear: the film is an allegory for the dangers of over-consumption of junk food. Stephen Neale’s entire ordeal begins with winning a cake at a charity event and…