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I like to think that being raised by an artist helped me learn to appreciate the craft of many other artists. Perhaps this has allowed me to suspend logic in some ways; enter my adoration of magical realism. In short: I like to be entertained and The Fourth Kind was entertaining and troubling.

Horror, mystery, sci-fi, these are all the categories where the film The Fourth Kind is included. I’d like to add this film to the very small category of “Directors & Screenwriters of Color who found and earned major distribution for their films in 2009.” Olatunde Osunsanmi is a Nigerian director and screenwriter and The Fourth Kind is his first film distributed by a major corporate company.

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