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What happens when you inject Hollywood blood into the veins of Arabic cinema? A cinematic coup that stakes a claim on cultural soft power. After headline-grabbing football acquisitions, Saudi Arabia seems to be aiming for global box office dominance by mounting a vanity project. Orchestrated by ‘Bad Boys’ Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the…

I just got back from taking my daughter to see Evil Dead Burn, and after sitting on it for a quiet night, I found myself wrestling with a deep sense of artistic disappointment, one that I see often in modern movies, but until now had trouble articulating.