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“If the atomic-age monster movie was the premier horror mode of the 1950s and the teen-sex slasher flick dominated the Reagan years, found footage was the horror movement of the 2010s. This strain – defined by handheld cameras, improvised dialogue and barely seen ghosts and monsters – had its big bang in 1999’s ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ but didn’t really come into its own as a genre until the late 2000s, just as cellphones and social media were turning us all into compulsive self-recorders.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day

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“Few filmmakers are afforded the opportunity to cap their career with their most ambitious (and arguably greatest) work to date, and fewer still are able to recapture the magic of their most famous creation decades after the fact. Such is the case of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017), which begins an appropriately massive nine-day series of “marathon” screenings Wednesday.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day

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We wrap up the summer with an episode and a film series devoted to movies about house cats, of which there are a lot more than you can shake a stick at. Whether they appear in animated movies, horror films, comedies, or historical fictions, felines play an outsized role in cinema, despite being notoriously difficult to train in the craft of acting.

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