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Laura Kern

Short Takes: The Maid

By Laura Kern
September 29, 2014
(Sebastián Silva, Chile/Mexico, 2009)

Short Takes: Daybreakers

By Laura Kern
September 23, 2014
(Michael & Peter Spierig, U.S./Australia, 2009)

Short Takes: Creation

By Laura Kern
September 23, 2014
(Jon Amiel, U.K., 2009)

Short Takes: Mammoth

By Laura Kern
September 23, 2014
(Lukas Moodysson, Sweden/Germany/Denmark, 2009)

Short Takes: Brothers

By Laura Kern
September 23, 2014
(Jim Sheridan, U.S., 2009)

Short Takes: The Zero Theorem

By Laura Kern
September 8, 2014
(Terry Gilliam, U.S./Romania/U.K./France, 2013)

Festivals: SFIFF

By Laura Kern
June 20, 2014
All About the Feathers, The Reconstruction, and Coherence: a trio of low-key standouts at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival

Stanley Film Festival

By Laura Kern
May 13, 2014
Terror at 7,500 feet above sea level: the second edition of this horror festival was truly inspired

Streaming Pile: High School (Black and) Blues

By Laura Kern
April 15, 2014
The latest installment of a column dedicated, though not exclusively, to the seedier side of VOD

Short Takes: Blue Ruin

By Laura Kern
April 14, 2014
(Jeremy Saulnier, U.S., 2013)

The Midnight Hour

By Laura Kern
March 4, 2014
Away from the spotlight, there lurked dark delights

Short Takes: Dallas Buyers Club

By Laura Kern
November 4, 2013
(Jean-Marc Vallée, U.S., 2013)

Short Takes: You’re Next

By Laura Kern
June 24, 2013
(Adam Wingard, U.S., 2011)

Short Takes: The Hunt

By Laura Kern
June 24, 2013
(Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 2012)

Streaming Pile: Psycho Chicks

By Laura Kern
June 24, 2013
All you need is a girl and a gun—or some other sharp object

Festivals: Stanley Film Festival

By Laura Kern
May 23, 2013
Horror on high at the inaugural edition of the Stanley Film Festival, in the 110-year-old hotel that helped inspire The Shining

Short Takes: The East

By Laura Kern
April 28, 2013
(Zal Batmanglij, U.S., 2013)

Short Takes: American Mary

By Laura Kern
April 28, 2013
(Jen & Sylvia Soska, Canada, 2012)

Streaming Pile: Rare Anthologies

By Laura Kern
April 12, 2013
Regardless of the decade, we've got your weird anthologies covered

Streaming Pile: Pete Walker

By Laura Kern
March 11, 2013
A new column dedicated, though not exclusively, to the seedier side of VOD