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Snowden (2016)
What’s this all about? In 2016, Oliver Stone, award winning director and noted crackpot gave us Snowden, the story of Edward Snowden, the CIA whistle blower who revealed the CIA’s troubling habit…
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Dog Eat Dog (2016)
What’s this all about? In 2016, director Paul Schrader (a writer on Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ, and the director of an Exorcist prequel) told the story…
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The Trust (2016)
What’s this all about? A pair of bumbling Las Vegas cops who work as property clerks (or maybe as Crime Scene Investigators?) stumble upon a secret storage facility for drug money, because…
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Pay The Ghost (2015)
What’s this all about? Pay The Ghost is a fairly straightforward ghost story that, on its surface, is about the malevolent ghost of a Celtic woman who was burned at the stake,…
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The Runner (2015)
What’s this all about? Written and directed by freshman director Austin Stark, 2014’s The Runner is a political drama about a Democratic Louisiana congressman who is worried about the Deep Water Horizon…
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Dying of the Light (2014)
What’s this all about? Dying of the Light tells the story of two sick old men, pointlessly fighting each other over poorly-defined ideals, until both of them die alone, having wasted most…
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Left Behind (2014)
What’s this all about? Way back in 1995, Tyndale House Publishers released the first in the “Left Behind” series of novels, about apocalyptic life on Earth following a “rapture” event, in which…
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Outcast (2014)
What’s this all about? Tired of the horrors of war, Anakin Skywalker and his mentor travel to a distant land, where they fall into a political plot that requires them to escort…
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Rage (2014)
What’s this all about? Rage, originally titled Tokarev, tells the story of a reformed criminal whose daughter is kidnapped, and the frantic search to rescue her. No, we haven’t already covered this…
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Joe (2013)
What’s this all about? Honestly, I have no idea. I watched this movie, and paid attention, but in the end, I can’t really tell you what it was all about. Joe is…
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The Croods (2013)
What’s this all about? In 2013, someone at Dreamworks decided that we needed another CGI-animated kids’ movie with a star studded cast of adult actors providing the voices. So, they rounded up…
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The Frozen Ground (2013)
What’s this all about? After a string of screamy action/thrillers and ill-advised devil-themed nonsense, Nick returned to the world of “serious” films, in 2013’s The Frozen Ground. A procedural retelling of the…