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The first rule of “Manodrome” is that there is no talk of “Fight Club”. “Fight Club” looms large in writer-director John Trengrove's disturbing second feature, even if no one overtly mentions David Fincher's provocative late '90s film in this dark psychological thriller with social criticism, which finds that the state of masculinity is even more fraught than Fincher was a quarter of a century ago. Trengrove, who is gay and hails from South Africa (his 2017 debut,  “The Wound,” was shortlisted for the international Oscar), brings a queer sensibility to his otherwise unsatisfying analysis of contemporary masculinity, enlisting Jesse Eisenberg to play another skinny guy. white man seeking a way out of deep wells of festering aggression. Director:John Trengove Writer:John Trengove  Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young Here, he finds himself in a secret society of like-minded guys, headed by Adrien Brody as a self-proclaimed father figure who calls himself "D...