Cinema Therapy Review

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Seven

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Seven is the most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal-maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs. The film is based on an idea that’s both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer (Kevin Spacey) forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully […]

Brokedown Palace

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Alice (Claire Danes) and Darlene (Kate Beckinsale) are best friends on their post-high-school whirlwind vacation. Telling their parents they’re off for Hawaii, they head instead to Thailand, where they stay at a $6-a-night dive and sneak drinks at a posh hotel. They both fall sway to the charms of a handsome Australian (Daniel Lapaine), who […]

Christine

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Stephen King’s novel about the twisted love affair between a boy and his car gets transferred to the screen, courtesy of suspense master John Carpenter. Although lacking some of the more outré supernatural elements of the source material, this high-octane cinematic tune-up more than delivers the goods, horror-wise. christine’s midnight rampages will never be forgotten. […]

Notorious

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One of Alfred Hitchcock’s classics, this romantic thriller features a cast to kill for: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains. Bergman plays the daughter of a disgraced father who is recruited by American agents to infiltrate a post-World War II spy ring in Brazil. Her control agent is Grant, who treats her with disdain […]