Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  Rikyu

  Hiroshi Teshigahara

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

  The great Hiroshi Teshigahara's second last film, released in 1989, is an insular, ponderous affair, albeit one with flashes of subtle beau...

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  A Scanner Darkly

  Richard Linklater

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

  Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly holds the distinction of being both the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel for the scr...

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  Cassos

  Philippe Carrese

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

  Cassos could have used a little more time in the incubator. Philippe Carrese's self-conscious little crime comedy about a spineless, browbe...

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  Cairo 678

  Mohamed Diab

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2013

  Taking a few structural cues from the work of Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu (Babel) – temporally shuffled plot threads that tie in to a...

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  From Beyond [Blu-Ray]

  Stuart Gordon

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2013

  Considering the cult following garnered by his pitch-black comedic reading of H.P. Lovecraft with Re-Animator, it was a no-brainer for Stua...

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  Futureworld [Blu-Ray]

  Richard T. Heffron

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2013

  Three years after Michael Crichton explored the inevitable entropic breakdown of engineered fantasy worlds in Westworld, laying the foundat...

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  Killing Them Softly [Blu-Ray]

  Andrew Dominik

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2013

  Quirky Kiwi filmmaker Andrew Dominik makes no bones about his agenda for this superficially faithful adaptation of George V. Higgins's impa...

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  Miami Connection

  Y.K. Kim & Park Woo-sang

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2013

  Encapsulating the premise doesn't make it any easier to believe: drug-slinging motorcycle ninjas battle an ultra-positive Tae Kwon Do hair...