THE BLOODY APE *** USA 1997 Dir: Kevin Crocker. 77 mins That sound you hear is Edgar Allan Poe turning (or, perhaps, wanking) in his grave at being credited for inspiring this horny, rough-and-ready Super 8 “homage” to the oft-filmed “Murders in the Rue Morgue”. You’ll know quite early on…

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SACRIFICE *** Canada 2020 Dir: Andy Collier, Toor Mian. 87 mins Nordic Noir is a popular sub-genre of crime fiction. Most people know it from the Stieg Larson books and the film adaptions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Nordic mythology has been a source for folk tales crafted…

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After losing his daughter to a drug overdose, a broken father begins a vigilante campaign to bring down the white-collar criminals behind the opioid epidemic in PAINKILLER. The timely and powerful thriller stars acting veterans Michael Paré (Eddie & the Cruisers, Gangster Land) and Bill Oberst Jr. (‘Scream Queens’ ‘Criminal Minds’) and…

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