Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  Big-Ass Spider!

  Mike Mendez

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2013

  Mike Mendez's Big-Ass Spider! is laudatory for having the guts to try being a decent film when ludicrous brethren like Sharknado have been...

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  We Are What We Are

  Jim Mickle

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2013

  With the equally elegant and horrific We Are What We Are, Jim Mickle (Mulberry Street) proves that he's one of the most exciting young dire...

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  Maniac [Blu-Ray]

  Franck Khalfoun

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

  One thing you can be sure of in any Alexandre Aja screenplay: women will be silenced in the most horrifying ways possible. Knowing the dire...

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  After Earth

  M. Night Shyamalan

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

  Oh how the rich and famous can be an indulgent, delusional breed. When someone needs a life lesson or a coming-of-age ritual in a regular f...

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  The Purge [Blu-Ray]

  James DeMonaco

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

  Another high concept, low budget, single location horror from Blumhouse, The Purge posits a near future where an id-scratching night of ana...

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  Pacific Rim [Blu-Ray]

  Guillermo Del Toro

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

  No other director provides fan service like Guillermo del Toro. For the Blu-Ray release of his internationally successful love letter to si...

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  Bounty Killer

  Henry Saine

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

  Inevitably, a movie as steeped in homage as Bounty Killer will be met with myriad comparisons and a great many of those will contain a meas...

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  A Touch of Sin

  Jia Zhangke

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2013

  Comparable to Babel, without the oppressive dourness, or Paul Haggis's Crash, if it was actually worthy of the praise lavished upon it, A T...