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9 Survival Movies That Are Absolute Knockouts. By Fatimah Akanbi. Compared to standard adventure flicks, survival movies invest less in spectacle and more in realism. Capitalising on the mechanics of the natural world, they drop the audience into a near-realistic setting with protagonists no more than the average person fighting to stay alive in the

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The co-writer of The Breadwinner (2017), Anita Doron — it isn’t really fair to define an artist by a single work, since she has done many other things besides, but I have to say it because it is one of her best-known works — is back with Maya & Samar. From its very first minutes

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Director Paul Holbrook tells us a dark yet ultimately hopeful story about past traumas and addiction in his latest short film, Tor Lewa. First of all, I have to say that Tor Lewa has a remarkably high level of cinematography—the kind you wouldn’t expect to see in a low-budget short film. This is supported by

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Schoenbrun’s bizarre meta slasher seeks to dissect the before and after of finding yourself in both an elusive and viscerally coherent explosion of fantasy and flesh.  All at once an homage, a takedown and a celebration of the trashy B movie slasher, filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s riotous third feature is an absolute blast from start to

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I’ve always appreciated low-budget films more than the ones with massive budgets. Above all, they are filled with the desire to prove themselves and the passion to make a good film. FC Rabbath’s The Final Pact is one of them.Three young seminary students learn, just before their graduation, that there is a secret final exam.

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