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A lonely woman sees something she can’t unsee in ‘Gazer,’ an industrious thriller

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A small, hunched New Jersey woman named Frankie with intense eyes and a severe pixie cut is the central protagonist of the low-budget mystery “Gazer,” from first-time feature director Ryan J. Sloan. You’d be forgiven for thinking, given her her drawn, caved-in appearance, hoodie-shrouded and forever preoccupied with self-recorded cassette tapes, that she’d typically be … Read more

Here’s what you didn’t see in some of the best picture Oscar contenders

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Directors, and their editors, must be brutal in their final cuts. Scenes that were conceived, written and often even already shot sometimes must be sliced and diced out — for a variety of reasons: to keep the tension cranked up, to create a little mystery, to keep down the running time. Well, sometimes that’s an … Read more