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Nouri's avatar

Honestly think he's onto something re "Pain and Gain" — can't help but wonder what could have been...

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Carmen Petaccio's avatar

essential corroborating evidence in the Michael Bay Is An Auteur case

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Sherman Alexie's avatar

I didn't know that Armond White felt so positively about S. Craig Zahler. It makes me wonder if vengeance is conservative-coded. And it goes along with my increasing belief that contemporary horror films, as a genre, include the highest percentage of good and great films. Horror filmmakers, by definition, are unafraid of taking enormous risks. I mean, that evisceration scene in Bone Tomahawk? Talk about revising the Western!

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Carmen Petaccio's avatar

S. Craig Zahler is to Armond White what Paul Thomas Anderson is to everyone else. And hard agree about the tearing-the-guy-in-half scene in Bone Tomahawk, a true "how is that even possible?" moment in the theater.

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