Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  Byzantium

  Neil Jordan

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2013

  Because the general viewing public prefers horror cinema to require minimal emotional and intellectual investment, seemingly satisfied with...

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  Griot

  Volker Goetze

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

  German jazz trumpeter Volker Goetze hasn't just made a documentary celebrating the remarkable talents of Senegalese Kora master Ablaye Ciss...

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  Dead in Tombstone [Blu-ray]

  Roel Reiné

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2013

  From the director of such direct-to-video macho "classics" as Death Race 3 and The Marine 2 comes supernatural western Dead in Tombstone. S...

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  Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear

  Nick Everhart, Miko Hughes, Emily Hagins, Eric England, Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2013

  Stick it out past the obnoxious, tonally misrepresentative opening credits (a scene of arbitrarily stylized torture synched to brostep beat...

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  Motivational Growth

  Don Thacker

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2013

  Powered by self-conscious stylistic quirks and mired in nostalgia, Don Thacker's ambitious feature length debut suffers from an eagerness t...

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  Solo

  Isaac Cravit

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2013

  Canadian director Isaac Cravit taps into isolation anxiety and the potent fear of nature's unknown vastness for this quaint but effective s...

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  Stalled

  Christian James

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2013

  The ceaseless glut of titles in the current zombie boom infecting pop culture makes it harder than ever to stand out in the gut-munching fi...

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  Eega

  S.S. Rajamouli & J.V.V. Sathyanarayana

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2013

  Even aficionados of Indian cinema haven't likely seen anything quite like this strange, broadly comic fantasy romance before. Co-director S...