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(043) → Daydream Nation (2010)

director: Michael Goldbach
starring: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas, Rachel Blanchard
rated: R
synopsis: Tells the story of a city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
tomatometer: 65%; 50% (critic/audience split)

(039) → America’s Sweethearts (2001)

director: Joe Roth
starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria
rated: PG-13
synopsis: A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie’s co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film’s print hostage.
tomatometer: 31%; 41% (rotten.)

(038) → Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

director: Joseph Ruben
starring: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor
rated: R
synopsis: A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
tomatometer: 22%; 65% (critic/audience split)

(034) → Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

director: Mike Newell
starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin
rated: PG-13
synopsis: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 50’s Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles.
tomatometer: 35%; 58% (rotten.)

(031) → Identity Thief (2013)

director: Seth Gordon
starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I.
rated: R
synopsis: Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity.
tomatometer: 20%; 55% (rotten.)

(029) → Pet Sematary(1989)

director: Mary Lambert
starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard
rated: R
synopsis: Behind a young family’s home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.
tomatometer: 45%; 63% (critic/audience split)

(022) → The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia(2009)

director: Julien Nitzberg
starring: Jesco White
rated: Unrated
synopsis: A year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the “Dancing Outlaw” documentary.
tomatometer: 56%; 62% (critic/audience split)

(019) → Oblivion(2013)

director: Joseph Kosinski
starring: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
rated: PG-13
synopsis: A veteran assigned to extract Earth’s remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
tomatometer: 54%; 62% (critic/audience split)

(015) → The Ward(2010)

director: John Carpenter
starring: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh, Lyndsy Fonseca
rated: R
synopsis: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
tomatometer: 32%; 28% (rotten.)

(012) → I Accuse(2003)

director: John Ketcham
starring: Estella Warren, John Hannah, John Kapelos, Tom Butler, Cavan Cunningham
rated: R
synopsis: A chilling tale based on a real event in which a doctor stepped out of line and sexually assaulted a patient when drugged.
tomatometer: N/A; 46% (rotten.)

(006) → Mama (2013)

director: Andrés Muschietti
starring: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash
rated: PG-13
synopsis: Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years…. but how alone were they?
tomatometer: 66%; 57% (critic/audience split)

From the abyss of darkness

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Incredible sculpture by @emil_melmoth, ‘Rotten Cupid’ from the recent ‘Conjoined 7’ exhibition at @coprogallery, curated by @chetzar

Bones - SadlyThatsJustTheWayThingsAre (Rotten, 2014)