Watching Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev’s visually confident, intellectually insecure documentary Porcelain War is like listening to a recitation from a brilliant poet while somebody sitting next to…
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Read more Kristen Stewart Explains Plot of Sundance Film ‘Love Me’: “The Movie Jumps the Throat of Identity”If it takes doing an MCU movie, with all the corporate constrictions that entails, to plunge into the kind of exhilarating creative exorcism that Freaky Tales represents, then…
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