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Author: Dan Scully

Dan Scully is a film buff and humorist living in a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. He hosts the podcast I Like to Movie Movie and is the proud father to twin cactuses named Riggs & Murtaugh. Also, he doesn't really mind when Batman kills people. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
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Kubrick by Kubrick (2020 – dir. Gregory Monro): Philadelphia Film Festival review

Dan Scully October 29, 2020 No Comments

A mysterious figure, top to bottom, Kubrick is a man from another time.

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Jumbo (2020 – dir. Zoé Wittick): Philadelphia Film Festival review

Dan Scully October 28, 2020 No Comments

Jumbo manages to accurately depict the feeling of romance as well as accurately describe the feeling of fetishization.

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Miracle Fishing (2020 – dir. Miles Hargrove & Christopher Birge): Philadelphia Film Festival review

Dan Scully October 27, 2020 No Comments

An intense story that resembles what we see in a standard thriller, but being real life

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New Order (2020 – dir. Michel Franco): Philadelphia Film Festival review

Dan Scully October 26, 2020 No Comments

This movie is going to upset a lot of people. Good. 

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Apples (2020 – dir. Christos Nikou): Philadelphia Film Festival review

Dan Scully October 26, 2020 No Comments

A mostly quiet tale, carried by the human performances and minimalist plot

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White Lie (2019 – dir. Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas): Philadelphia Film Festival review

Dan Scully October 26, 2020 1 Comment

Ever meet one of those people who, no matter what the situation, cannot help but lie about even the tiniest things?

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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (dir. Jason Woliner): Moviefilm review

Dan Scully October 22, 2020 No Comments

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is hilarious to the point of incapacitation.

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Death Drop Gorgeous (dir. Michael Ahern, Christopher Dale, Brandon Perras): Salem Horror Festival capsule review

Dan Scully October 5, 2020 No Comments

Drop Dead Gorgeous takes the shiny, candy-colored world of drag and drenches it with gallons of blood

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Bleed With Me (dir. Amelia Moses): Salem Horror Festival capsule review

Dan Scully October 5, 2020 No Comments

Writer/director Amelia Moses proves herself a talent to watch with this moody tale of mistrust

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Papi Ramirez vs. Giant Scorpions (dir. Leslie Rivera): Salem Horror Festival capsule review

Dan Scully October 5, 2020 No Comments

Papi Ramirez vs. Giant Scorpions proves that if you’re creative enough, you can make a pretty damn good DIY movie

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The Last Thanksgiving (dir. Erick Lorinc): Salem Horror Festival capsule review

Dan Scully October 1, 2020 No Comments

The carnage is a lot of fun

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Occupants (dir. Russ Emmanuel, 2015): Salem Horror Festival capsule review

Dan Scully September 30, 2020 No Comments

With a bigger budget, this concept could be turned into a much more compelling, terrifying movie, but here in this universe, it is what it is. 

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THE NEST (dir. Sean Durkin): Film review

Dan Scully September 18, 2020 No Comments

Carrie Coon torches the screen contemporary version of a costume drama

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I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (dir. Charlie Kaufman): Film review

Dan Scully September 4, 2020 No Comments

Maybe my love for this movie is mostly because it’s a rock-and-roll act of writing

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SPUTNIK (dir. Egor Abramenko): Film review

Dan Scully August 12, 2020 1 Comment

A crafty sci-fi thriller that fans of the genre will find compelling

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RELIC (dir. Natalie Erika James): Film review

Dan Scully July 8, 2020 No Comments

The scariest thing I can think of, outside of a talking octopus that walks on land, is mental decline

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YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (dir. David Koepp): Film review

Dan Scully June 22, 2020 No Comments

On a rainy day with nothing better to do, You Should Have Left will prove serviceable enough for non-discerning viewers

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7500 (dir. Patrick Vollrath): Film review

Dan Scully June 17, 2020 No Comments

Taking place entirely within the cockpit of a hijacked commercial airliner, this minimalist performance piece benefits greatly from a high-level of sustained tension.

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BABYTEETH (dir. Shannon Murphy): Film review

Dan Scully June 17, 2020 No Comments

An A-rate tale of flawed, kindhearted humans doing their best to be as good as they possibly can.

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SHRED AMERICA (dir. Arthur Swidzinski): Film review

Dan Scully June 11, 2020 No Comments

Back in the summer of 2008, a group of skaters decided to go on an adventure.

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