Apollo 18 (2011) ✰ ✰ ½

Pseudo-documentaries with horror aspects have become relatively commonplace since the surprise hit The Blair Witch Project back in 1999, and with good reason: it is seemingly easy to create “lost footage” which, when suddenly, conveniently found, tells some very harrowing tales. […]

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The Debt (2011) ✰ ✰ 1/2

The philosophical mystery thriller The Debt questions whether the quest for truth should trump a nasty situation in which an expedient lie provided easy answers for the world but left lasting psychological repercussions for three people bound together by their actions. […]

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Contagion (2011) ✰ ✰ 1/2

Contagion is the latest medical pandemic thriller from Hollywood, following in the tradition of Panic in the Streets (1950) and Outbreak (1995).  The deja vu factor of Contagion is that it reminded me of the all-star disaster flicks of the 1970s.  Then, we were wondering who […]

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