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Five obnoxious Troy Duffy quotes.

By Vadim Rizov on 10/30/2009

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This week saw the, er, proud return of Troy Duffy, writer/director of 1999's Boston-set cult favorite "The Boondock Saints," about the stylish side of vigilante violence, and its new sequel "Boondock Saints II," which arrives in theaters today. Duffy's also the resentful subject of 2003's "Overnight," a fascinating 2003 documentary-as-showbiz-cautionary-tale that showcases how he's not one of those people to whom modesty and introspection come naturally. In the process of making "Boondock," Duffy managed to alienate a lot of people by being boorish, self-aggrandizing and effectively worshiping at the altar of his own ego. "Overnight" was beyond biased in depicting... MORE »

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Five horror movie-worthy PSAs from the UK and Australia.

By Vadim Rizov on 09/09/2009

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Have you seen that ridiculously prolonged, gory Welsh PSA about the dangers of texting while driving? Probably -- it's already managed to amass over six million hits and counting. Personally, it isn't as outre as I'd like: it dwells too long on ambulances and grim faces. But the gratuitous splatter factor is high. Over at the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw muses on the PSA as "an unacknowledged Brit horror genre of remarkable ingenuity and power": "Its official licence to shock and upset and to unleash one-off moments of horrible violence and inspired nastiness which in any other context would be condemned... MORE »