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Rabbit Trap

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  • Title: Rabbit Trap
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Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen star as Darcy and Darcy Davenport in writer/director Bryn Chainey‘s horror flick. After moving to the wilderness, the married couple accidentally discover and disturb something deep in the forest. Although the film gets off to a promising start, the faerie mythology at its heart is often underwhelming and the film runs out of gas lacking both the necessary tension for psychological horror and the thrills for a basic monster movie.

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When We Went MAD!

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  • Title: When We Went MAD!
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When We Went MAD! offers a fun look back at the creation and rise of MAD Magazine, its struggles over the years, the contentious relationship between MAD‘s first editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, the creation of Alfred E. Neuman, the band of idiots who came and went over the years helping the magazine find and develop its satiric voice, and its eventually decline and end of the magazine publishing new content.

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A Savage Art

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  • Title: A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant
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A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant examines the life and career of political cartoonist Pat Oliphant, an Australian artist by birth known primarily for his critiques of American presidents and world events which were published by a wide variety of newspapers over the years including The Denver Post, The Washington Star, and The New York Times.

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Eephus

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  • Title: Eephus
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Set around the final baseball game to be played at Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts before the field is to be demolished to make way for a new middle school, Eephus offers a look at the relationships of a group of mostly middle-aged men (many of who have been playing weekend baseball for decades). Eephus is part hang-out film, with the various conversations, disputes, and antics both on and off the field, and part nostalgic longing for a world being pushed aside by the passage of time.

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Riefenstahl

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  • Title: Riefenstahl
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For the subject of his documentary, director Andres Veiel turns his camera on the complicated figure of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl who rose to prominence during the rise of Germany’s Third Reich. Regarded as an innovator in the art of filmmaking, Riefenstahl’s friendships with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, along with her work in help create and style Nazi propaganda films, creates a controversial legacy to parse.

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