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  • The Conjuring

    The Conjuring is, in its basest form, a ghost story. And, while ghost stories are usually pretty terrifying, in their own little way, there’s USUALLY a get-out clause of some kind. Haunted houses, for example, are just that; haunted houses. Ghost stays in, you run outside screaming and bag yourself a room at the local…


  • The Heat

    The Heat is the Bridesmaids (2011) follow-up director Paul Feig should have given us sooner, because it is a positive titan of its genre. Starring Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side, The Proposal, our fever dreams) and Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), the plot follows the sisterly evolution of Bullock’s emotionally crippled FBI Agent Ashburn and McCarthy’s trigger-happy…




  • Stories We Tell by Kinloch Anstiss

    Stories We Tell by Kinloch Anstiss

    Sarah Polley exposes her family history, in particular the legacy of her mother, in a way that is heartfelt, funny and very very smart. That is the story she tells, but what does it really expose? What is true? What is truth? Polley’s film is ostensibly a documentary, but the truths it reveals are often…