Author: Derrick Murray

Derrick Murray is a Los Angeles based stand up comedian, writer, and co-host for The Jack of All Nerds Show.

With Cannes and Venice Film Festivals passed and Telluride currently running as we speak, there are still a long list of Sundance and SXSW premieres that have yet to find distribution or be given an official release date. Some of these films are still making their rounds in smaller, regional festivals in a search for a studio to pick them up, while others premiered at these early 2022 festivals and are now sitting in limbo waiting to be seen by general audiences. Some of these aren’t necessarily knockouts, and I can understand why studios didn’t engage in bidding wars. But…

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I’m roughly an hour after final credits rolling, and I still don’t fully know what to do with “Barbarian.” It has consumed me long after its conclusion, and solidifies itself as a no holds barred thrill ride that never lets go…even after you leave the theater. It’s one of those films that’s so out there and strange yet rather simple beneath the surface that it’s hard to really capture how it leaves you into words. On the one hand it’s one of the audacious horror films of the year, and that’s saying a lot considering the long list of horror…

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