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I love Troma Entertainment . Always have, always will. They’re this great, insane, loud, messy, beautiful, vulgar American independent film production and distribution company founded by Michael Herz and the great Lloyd Kaufman way back in 1974. And here’s the thing: they are the longest running independent film studio in the world. Fifty years. Let that sink in. Fifty years of chaos, fifty years of low budgets, fifty years of gore, nudity, fart jokes, severed limbs, explod

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 29th, 2025. 1) CAUGHT STEALING Darren Aronofsky  has made a career out of films that feel like endurance tests, searing, confrontational, artistic gut-punches that leave you exhausted, exhilarated, sometimes even wrecked. Requiem for a Dream  destroyed me (I loved it and have only seen it once, because I