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scintillating

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Hard Candy

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Hard Candy, which doubles as internet code for young girls, is at once a taut thriller and a modern morality play. It never deviates from its intended purpose of deconstructing a pedophile’s secret life, stripping away the veneer of respectability to uncover the truly dark nature of the perversions that drive pedophilia and reveal the [...]

Assault on Precinct 13

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

When you stand in line and request a ticket for a movie like Assault on Precinct 13, hand your money over with a smile, and gleefully stroll down that long dark hallway to Theatre 7, odds are you aren’t there for David Mametesque dialogue or scintillating drama, the pathos of a humanity-laden, emotionally charged period [...]

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