http://ambival.net/movies/raising-cain Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://ambival.net/movies/raising-cain#comment-10791 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Doppelganger [1993] Tue, 29 May 2007 19:44:59 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=608#comment-10791 [...] This falls between the last of De Palma’s great Hitchcockian homages, Raising Cain and a while before the Wachowski brothers’ sleek and sexy “Bound” and its loneliness in the cultural grand scheme of things shows – really it’s just a straight-to-video horror movie with lofty aspirations that also doubles in its own way, luckily for some, as a vehicle for Drew Barrymore. It pains me to say, though, even she’s really not required to do anything but look like Drew Barrymore here. [...] [...] This falls between the last of De Palma’s great Hitchcockian homages, Raising Cain and a while before the Wachowski brothers’ sleek and sexy “Bound” and its loneliness in the cultural grand scheme of things shows – really it’s just a straight-to-video horror movie with lofty aspirations that also doubles in its own way, luckily for some, as a vehicle for Drew Barrymore. It pains me to say, though, even she’s really not required to do anything but look like Drew Barrymore here. [...]

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