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  Terminal Island 1973

  

  James 12

  Terminal Island is Stephanie Rothman's Women In Prison flick and as far as WIP movies go it's pretty good. The movie takes place on a remote island that America (or…

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  Hellbound: Hellraiser II 1988

  

  Dan Santelli ★★★★

  Somewhere between Clive Barker’s Dream Warriors and a borderline NC-17 riff on Labyrinth, Tony Randel’s sequel reframes the ethos away from solemn and serious-minded, playing out in the anti-logical key…

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  The Life of Oharu 1952

  

  voggggg ★★★★½

  A very angry film, on par with Harakiri in its anti-state and anti-patriarchal ferocity, and a kind of forebear to Art Theater Guild radicalism (Eros Plus Massacre and Terayama). Twisting…

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  The Batman 2022

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★ 3

  [melancholy song playing]

  [somber music playing]

  [dramatic menacing music playing]

  [heroic music playing]

  [eerie music playing]

  [rousing music playing]

  [rousing music intensifies]

  [suspenseful music playing]

  [melancholy music playing]

  [soft music…

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  An American Tragedy 1931

  

  Gentry 🗝 ★★½ 5

  “I could have saved her.”

  Josef Von Sternberg doing a message film? Von Sternberg thinking he knows better than Theodore Dreiser and reinterpreting his novel to explicitly focus on—what he…

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  The Insect Woman 1963

  

  Sally Jane Black 5

  I almost feel like the title is missing a comma: The Insect, Woman. Which is not to say that this film portrays weak, insignificant women or that it is misogynistic,…

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  Black River 1957

  

  sakana1 2

  Discussion of sexual assault ahead.
  
  Black River is very, very, very difficult to watch, particularly its first half, as the bulk of the film's attention is focused on petty hood…

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  An Innocent Witch 1965

  

  David Blakeslee ★★★★½

  Riveting portrayal of a most unfortunate young woman sold into prostitution by her desperate mother, who finds herself at the center of several tragedies involving men from the same family.…