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OUTPOST *** USA 2022 Dir: Joe Lo Truglio. 88 mins Writer-director Joe Lo Truglio is best known for his comic work, including WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and a long-running stint as Charles Boyle in TV’s BROOKLYN NINE-NINE. Here he essays a thriller about PTSD not dissimilar at times to Leigh…

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SESSION 9 ***** USA 2001 Dir: Brad Anderson. 100 mins Co-writer / director Brad Anderson, who later made the THE MACHINIST, wanted to make a grown-up horror film with serious intent at a time when the genre had run the smug, self-conscious post-SCREAM teen horrors into the ground and, in…

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