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survival of ‘The Dead Zone’ (film: The Dead Zone – David Cronenberg, 1983)

Released in 1983, ‘The Dead Zone‘ belongs to one of the two better periods of the filmography (otherwise quite unequal) of film director David Cronenberg. The film has many of the characteristics – better or worse – of the cinema … Continue reading

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the magic of ‘seven’ does not fully work (Film: Seven Psychopaths – Martin McDonagh, 2012)

There is a magic about the number ‘seven’ in cinema among other places. Some say it started with Snow White, other will mention Kurosawa. Fact is that many successful films used this magic and succeeded, some of them succeeded great. … Continue reading

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the best Tarantino movie not made by Tarantino (Film: ‘True Romance’ – Tony Scott, 1993)

I believe that there is such a genre called ‘the Tarantino movies’. They have a story which is usually a gangster story, but not necessarily. Men in the story are teenagers or they all have teenagers minds, they are addicted … Continue reading

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