Like a combination of a grimy 1990s police procedural and the long-running series of horror films from which it is spun off that helped bring the term "torture porn" into the cinematic lexicon,
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Seattle Opera premiered "Karen Vuong in Recital" on May 7. The event, available online through May 28, features soprano Vuong accompanied by pianist David McDade performing art music including works by Debussy, Strauss, and Puccini.
Jonah Barrett's first book,
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Ben Sharrock's
This 1990s-set mystery from writer-director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie, The Blind Side) won't catch many viewers by surprise.
Like some sort of creepy, unsettlingly nasty combination of Deliverance, The Strangers, and The Village, this is a brutally uncompromising descent into unflinching terror that kept me on the edge of my seat.