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- April 24, 2025
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The Accountant 2 is Minecraft for Adults
The Accountant 2 knows exactly what adults are looking for in an action thriller flick. This follow-up to the 2016 film keeps the same cheeky comedy and stellar action of…
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- April 21, 2025
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Sinners is a sinsational dance with the devil
One Mississippi night in the 1930s, a young, mediocre musician by the name of Robert Johnson longed to sing the blues. Robert had middling success in the music world, playing…
- April 17, 2025
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The Criterion 40: On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront is one of the original great American cinema masterpieces. The film follows Terry Malloy, played excellently by Marlon Brando, and his descent into the criminal…
- April 11, 2025
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Warfare has a lot to show and little to say
Alex Garland’s Civil War, which came out in 2024, was a huge success for A24. That film is a story of journalists on a cross-country road trip to grab the…
- April 9, 2025
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Lets Talk About A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft movie made 301 million dollars at the box office this weekend, 150 million of that being on domestic screens on a 150 million dollar budget. That is, by…
- April 7, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Sweet Smell of Success
Alexander Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success is a classic tale of greed and morality set against the backdrop of a gorgeously shot New York City. The film is influential with…
- April 7, 2025
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Hell of a Summer is a Hell of a Debut
Best buds Billy Burke and Finn Wolfhard have teamed up for the camp counselor slashing horror comedy Hell of a Summer. Hell of a Summer treads familiar water in the…
- April 1, 2025
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Did This 1962 French New Wave Film Inspire a Video Game?
Jules & Jim, the 1962 French New Wave film from Francois Truffaut, is one of the most influential pieces in cinema history. The movie centers around a love triangle of…
- March 31, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Pickpocket
Robert Bresson’s 1959 film Pickpocket is a masterpiece of subtle storytelling. The film centers on Michel, played by Martin LaSalle, and his slow rise into a life of crime. This…
- March 31, 2025
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The Criterion 40: The Night of the Hunter
The 1955 Charles Laughton film The Night of the Hunter is a spectacular piece of art and one of the most influential films of all time. Looking at the Criterion…
- March 31, 2025
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The Electric State….of Netflix and Movies
The Electric State, a 320 million dollar Netflix exclusive Russo brothers film, hit streaming on March 14th. Much to the chagrin of movie lovers everywhere. I’ve seen a lot of…
- March 31, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Yi Yi
Edward Yang’s 2000 film Yi Yi is an epic, almost three-hour family drama following three generations of one Taiwanese family. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a…
- March 31, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Week-end
Few directors have been more influential on cinema than Jean-Luc Godard. And few films have been more influential than his 1967 black comedy Week-end. Week-end is a film with little…
- March 26, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn Review
Alex Scharfman’s directorial debut, Death of a Unicorn, is a funny and fantastical dissent against big pharma. The framing and marketing materials make the film seem like just another monster…
- March 20, 2025
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Ash is a Whisper of Better Films
Ash, The new horror sci-fi film from director Flying Lotus has all the makings of a great mystery thriller. We have an interesting setting, a cool group of characters, and…
- March 19, 2025
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Opus is a Pearl of Opulence
Opus is a visual feast driven by incredible performances and deep-seated themes. This movie is going for it in every sense of the word. John Malkovich chews the scenery every…
- March 19, 2025
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Mikey 17 Copies Too Much From Real Life
Mikey 17, like all of Bong Joon-ho’s movies, is playing with a great number of big ideas. There’s the idea of expendable humans and the value of life. He touches…
- March 19, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Being There
Hal Ashby’s 1979 film Being There is a hilarious satire of white privilege and political theater. It’s a film that is even more relevant today than it was in the…
- February 26, 2025
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Oscar Best Picture Nominees Ranked
Every year the Academy Awards chooses ten (sometimes less) movies to honor as potential best film of the year. The number has varied throughout the history of The Academy, but…
- February 19, 2025
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The Monkey Review: All Monkey Business
Osgood Perkins’ newest movie The Monkey comes only a few months after his huge 2024 horror hit Longlegs. It’s surprising to see this film less than a year after his…
- February 19, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Jules and Jim
Jules and Jim is a 1962 French New Wave film about the life and love of three people around the time of World War 1. Francois Truffaut directed this film,…
- February 14, 2025
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Captain America Brave New World
Captain America Brave New World is an apt title for the 35th entry in the MCU franchise. This film stars Anthony Mackie as the titular Captain America, after receiving the…
- February 12, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Naked
Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked is one of the more modern films in the Criterion 40 collection. And also one of the least approachable. The film is darkly bleak, bitingly…
- February 11, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Repo Man
Finally, after looking at three foreign black-and-white films, we get a real killer movie. Alex Cox’s 1984 Repo Man. A movie about space aliens, car chases, and punk rock music.…
- February 7, 2025
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Heart Eyes Review: Love Stinks
Heart Eyes slashes into theaters just in time for Valentine’s Day. This film from Josh Ruben leans hard into romantic comedy but maybe a little too sincere for its own…
- February 3, 2025
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The Room Next Door Review
The Room Next Door is an odd film by all accounts. It boasts big names like Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. It also comes from one of Spain’s most perplexing…
- January 30, 2025
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Companion is a Barbaric Break-Up Film
Over the years, many films have offered the same dystopian vision of the future as Companion. A totally subservient and incredibly gorgeous humanoid robot available solely for the user’s pleasure…
- January 29, 2025
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Babygirl Pulls A Switcharoo
Halina Reijn’s Babygirl aims to be a smart sexy erotic drama. The film succeeds in making its leads look sexy but fails to be the erotic thriller of the season…
- January 29, 2025
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Nickel Boys Wants To Put You In Hell
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’s directorial debut, is based on a Colson Whitehead book of the same name. RaMell Ross has been behind the camera before, but never for a feature…
- January 28, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Bicycle Thieves
The 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is a dark and sad tale of a man losing all that he holds dear. It hearkens back to other classic tales like It’s A…
- January 25, 2025
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Presence: A Ghost Story in Reverse
Presence takes the classic ghost story movie and turns it on its head. Rather than following a family getting spooked by an afterlife entity, we follow the action from the…
- January 24, 2025
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Flight Risk Needs A Pilot
Mel Gibson’s newest film Flight Risk is a far cry from some of the actor/director’s greatest hits. While polarizing, there are some truly great films in Gibson’s directorial filmography. From…
- January 21, 2025
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The Criterion 40: All That Jazz
By the time All That Jazz released in 1979, Bob Fossee was already a legend of the film and play industry. He had made a name for himself acting and…
- January 17, 2025
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The Brutalist: Monumental Says Everyone
A lot of superlatives have been thrown around when describing Brady Corbet’s newest film The Brutalist. But one word has come to define and surmise both the film and the…
- January 17, 2025
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Wolf Man Is Too Much Metaphor, Too Little Monster
Leigh Whannell’s newest film Wolf Man is both a technical achievement and a narrative bore. This pseudo-remake of the well-known lycanthrope legend starts off strong before diving into too many…
- January 15, 2025
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The Last Showgirl: A Life Well-Wasted
Gia Coppola’s latest film The Last Showgirl is a fascinating look at life in the arts. Well, not exactly the arts. But maybe arts adjacent? Unlike Paul Verhoeven’s inscrutable Showgirls,…
- January 13, 2025
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The Criterion 40: Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story was not a success on its initial release, especially with international audiences. The film is highly specific to Japanese culture and is slowly paced. It’s not until about…
- January 10, 2025
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Den of Thieves 2: Unnecessary Fun
Christian Gudegast returns to the Den of Thieves world with Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. Where the first film was a smaller contained Los Angeles-based crime story, this one is…
- January 8, 2025
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A Complete Unknown: The First Time You Heard Dylan
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is barely a movie. There is very little conflict through the first two acts. The main conflict of whether Dylan will go electric is softened…
- January 6, 2025
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The Criterion 40: 8 1/2
Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 is a masterpiece in cinema and narrative expression. 8 1/2 is a film about film. More specifically, it’s a film about art and the artists who…
- December 31, 2024
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The Other Best Films of 2024
A new year can only mean one thing. Numerous lists spouting the best films of the previous twelve months. 2024 was a bit of a mixed bag when it came…
- December 26, 2024
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Nosferatu Makes Vampires Scary Again
Robert Eggers has struck magic with his Christmas day release Nosferatu. This remake of a 1922 silent film of the same name bears the same general plot but creates a…
- December 21, 2024
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Queer Is A Disembodied Film
Luca Guadignino’s adaptation of Queer, a 1985 William S. Burrough novella, is a dreamy, drug-induced, sex-filled, fever dream. Queer stars Daniel Craig as William Lee. A heroin junkie living in…
- December 20, 2024
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Sonic 3 Isn’t Defined By The Past
Paramount’s Sonic 3 feels like an ending and a new beginning all at once. Videogame film adaptions have a tumultuous past but Jeff Fowler has been able to capture the…
- December 18, 2024
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Ranking The Sony Spiderman Villian Universe Films
With Kraven The Hunter having an abysmal opening weekend, the Sony Spiderman Villian Universe is all but assuredly dead. This ill-conceived cinematic universe began with a fairly promising Venom and…
- December 13, 2024
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Kraven The Hunter Review
After three writers and two years of delays, Kraven The Hunter is finally in theaters. And boy, is it bad. It seems even the stacked cast and extra time in…
- December 11, 2024
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September 5 Review
Tim Fehlbaum’s new film September 5 tells the true story of the Munich massacre through the eyes of the ABC sports film crew who covered it. The true-life story of…
- December 10, 2024
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There are two Adult Swim Yule Log Specials. Only one is worth your time
Adult Swim Yule Log, also known as The Fireplace, was a surprise 2022 film. The film is part absurdist Adult Swim comedy, part horror, and part meta-narrative fire-crackling Yule Log…
- December 6, 2024
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Y2K is a Ride on the Information Super Die-Way
Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut Y2K feels a lot like a rejected SNL pitch. The film begins as a standard run-of-the-mill teen buddy comedy set against the backdrop of the turn…
- December 3, 2024
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The Order Review
The Order follows the true story of the white supremacist group The Order and the FBI agents who brought them down. Justin Kurzel’s new film takes inspiration from blockbuster cat-and-mouse…
- December 2, 2024
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The Best Yacht Rock Movies
The Ringer’s new Max DOCKumentary Yacht Rock shines a light on a made-up genre of music. Yacht Rock is the easy listening songs of the late 70s and early 80s.…
- November 27, 2024
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Why Does This Lonely Island Song Make Seth Meyers Cry?
I’ve recently become obsessed with the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. It’s a podcast about, well, Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island going through all of the digital shorts…
- November 22, 2024
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Wicked Defies Gravity
Wicked is the second big-screen musical that serves as an origin story for one of the media’s greatest villains. That isn’t a lot, but it’s weird we’ve gotten two this…
- November 20, 2024
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Black Ops 6 Campaign is Basically the MCU of Videogames
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is the first Call of Duty in years with a truly stellar campaign. After some lackluster attempts to revitalize the Modern Warfare series and…
- November 18, 2024
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Is Die Hard Really a Christmas Movie?
John McTiernan’s classic 1988 film Die Hard has become a staple of the action movie genre. Based on a 1979 novel titled Nothing Lasts Forever, Die Hard is a borderline…
- November 15, 2024
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Red One Forgets What Christmas is All About
Frequent Dwayne The Rock Johnson collaborator Jake Kasdan is back with a new Christmas film. Red One follows a smarmy Chris Evans as Jack O’Malley. A level four naughty lister…
- November 14, 2024
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Why won’t Warner Bros Let you see Juror # 2 in Theaters?
Juror #2, the new film from acclaimed writer and director Clint Eastwood, is currently in 38 theaters. Warner Bros is distributing the new film and despite an Oscars campaign, and…
- November 13, 2024
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Anora is a Fast-Moving Gen Z Pretty Woman
Sean Baker’s newest film Anora shares a lot of DNA with his previous works. The film stars Mikey Madison as the titular Anora-who goes by Ani in the film-and her…
- November 11, 2024
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Blitz Review: Home Alone but Make it WW2
Saoirse Ronan stars in another Oscar-contending film this year with Steve McQueens Blitz. Blitz is an Apple original film and is continuing the studio’s work of excellent film releases. The…
- November 8, 2024
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Heretic Shows the Devils Greatest Trick
Heretic is the latest subversive horror flick from A24. But unlike this year’s earlier outing with Brandy, Heretic is actually a horror movie. This thriller from Scott Beck and Bryan…
- November 7, 2024
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Mouthwashing is a Movie-Length Game Filled with Dread
A copy of Mouthwashing was provided to the Create-Context team for review purposes. A link to our ethics policy can be found below. Mouthwashing, the new psychological horror game from…
- November 5, 2024
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Every VHS Movie Ranked
The VHS Movie franchise began in 2012 as a coupling of two specific horror genres. Found footage and anthology films. The two fit together like peanut butter and chocolate. Found…
- October 25, 2024
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Venom The Last Dance Review: The Best of the Worst
Venom The Last Dance is the best movie in Sony’s Spiderman-less Spiderman film universe. It’s still a bad movie. The plot is borderline illogical, there are no meaningful stakes, and…
- October 22, 2024
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Your Monster Review: Women Behaving Badly
Caroline Lindy’s new film Your Monster opens with an ominous title card. It reads based on a true-ish story. The next two hours of the film are packed to the…
- October 21, 2024
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Rumours Review: With Great Power Comes Minimal Responsibility
Rumours is at times the dryest and others the most absurd comedy movie of the year. The film centers around seven world leaders from powerful countries convening in Germany for…
- October 21, 2024
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Smile 2 Review
Parker Finn is back with another with Smile 2. The follow-up to his wildly successful first film. The series began as a creepy short screened at SXSW and is quickly…
- October 18, 2024
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RetroRealms Halloween & Ash vs Evil Dead is a Treat for Horror Fans
Copies of RetroRealms Halloween & Ash vs Evil Dead were provided to Create-Context by Boss Team Games. The opinions below solely reflect those of the author. A review of both…
- October 17, 2024
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Terrifier 3 is a Horror Film Wrapped up for Christmas
Art the Clown returns in Terrifier 3, Damien Leone’s third film in his Terrifier franchise. Terrifier 3 contains just as much of Art the Clowns antics as you’d expect from…
- October 17, 2024
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Every Art the Clown Feature and Short Film Ranked
Terrifer 3 bested Joker Folie a Deux after only one weekend in theaters, proving that there can only be one clown king in October. Art the Clown made his debut…
- October 14, 2024
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Live From Jason Reitman It’s Saturday Night
Saturday Night is the true-ish story of the iconic TV show’s opening night. A real-time drama, the film painstakingly recreates iconic moments from the show while playing fast and loose…
- October 8, 2024
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Saoirse Ronan Withstands Treacherous Winds in The Outrun
The Outrun follows all the familiar tropes of an addiction story, but that doesn’t meet it’s not worth your time. Saoirse Ronan puts on a masterclass of acting in what…
- October 7, 2024
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50 Years Ago The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Changed Cinema
Tobe Hooper’s seminal 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre turns fifty this year. The film has gone on to spawn numerous sequels, several reboots, and even video game franchises. The…
- October 1, 2024
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Joker Folie a Deux is Better Than its Predecessor in Almost Every Way
Todd Phillip’s 2019 film Joker was not a film that needed to be made. It was a standalone movie with no continuity to the larger-then-ongoing DCEU that featured one of…
- September 30, 2024
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Lee is the Second Best Film About the Famed War Photographer in 2024
After a tumultuous production, the Sky Original film Lee has finally received a wide release. It’s odd that this film, based on the life of Lee Miller, comes the same…
- September 27, 2024
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Megalopolis: Easy to Get, Impossible to Understand
Few films have such a history and legend around them as Francis Ford Coppola’s fable Megalopolis. Coincidentally, few directors have as storied and polarizing history as Francis himself. Megalopolis is…
- September 24, 2024
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Never Let Go Review: Tied Together By A Strong Third Act
Alexandre Aja’s new film Never Let Go tells a bold story and is the filmmaker’s best work yet. Never Let Go stars Halle Berry as a mother struggling to save…
- September 24, 2024
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Azrael Review: All Style, No Substance
Azrael, the newest movie from IFC and Shudder, takes some big swings. The movie is set in a dystopian post-rapture world where a strange cult cuts out their vocal cords…
- September 23, 2024
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I Saw The TV Glow Wasnt Made For Me, And That Makes It Better
The first time I watched I Saw The TV Glow I left the theater a bit disappointed. I couldn’t quite put my finger on why, but there was a nagging…
- September 20, 2024
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The Penguin & Agatha All Along Represent The Best & Worst of Their Cinematic Universe
We’re only past the premier of both Agatha All Along and The Penguin and already each show is learning from their franchise counterparts. The Penguin is shaping up to be…
- September 19, 2024
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The Substance Review: Beauty, Fame, and Drugs
Coralie Fargeat’s sophomore film The Substance is a tour de force of glam, glitz, and gross-out horror. The Substance is jam-packed with beautiful sets, incredible colors, and phenomenal acting. After…
- September 18, 2024
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The Critic Review: Ian McKellen Searches For Immortality
The Critic is a twisty period piece set in 1934 London. The film follows Sir Ian McKellen as a theater critic for one of the largest newspapers in the paper.…
- September 17, 2024
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The Killers Game Review: Fantastic Premise, Wasted Execution
The Killers Game, adapted from the Jay Bonansinga novel of the same name, is a wildly fun and entertaining premise. When the film finally decides to get there. Everything about…
- September 13, 2024
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How Speak No Evil 2024 Differs from Speak No Evil 2022
Blumhouses’ remake of a 2022 psychological horror released on Friday the 13th and is garnering praise for James McAvoy’s stellar performance. The original film, Speak No Evil 2022, is a…
- September 13, 2024
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Speak No Evil: James McAvoy is Unhinged in the Best Way
Speak No Evil, the most advertised film ever, is finally out in the world. And it’s surprisingly quite good. This Blumhouse-produced film is a slow-burning tense weekend getaway that’s fully…
- September 12, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Jason X
Jason X is the tenth and final proper entry in the Friday the 13th series. Jason would go on to later fight Freddy Kruger and get a reboot, but Jason…
- September 11, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to Hell The Final Friday
After seven films in the woods, one in Manhattan, and eight with Paramount Pictures, Jason finally goes somewhere he’s never been before. Jason goes to Hell and New Line Cinema.…
- September 10, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Part 8 Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th Part 8 Jason Takes Manhattan is the last film in the series to come from Paramount Pictures before the series headed to New Line Cinema. Part 8…
- September 10, 2024
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My Old Ass Review: Enjoy the Present
My Old Ass is a high-concept breath of fresh air coming-of-age tale from writer and director Megan Park. The film stars Maisy Stella as Elliot, a teenage girl on the…
- September 9, 2024
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Nope and Chimp Crazy Have More In Common Than a Vengeful Primate
Chimp Crazy, the new HBO documentary series helmed by Eric Goode, is a wild tale of a woman and her chimpanzees. What starts as the story of one woman fighting…
- September 9, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Friday the 13th Part 7 The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part 7 The New Blood is a misunderstood film in the Friday the 13th series. The film was released two years after the franchise’s previous installment and…
- September 6, 2024
- 2 Comments
The Front Room Review: Brandy is One Bad Mother
A24 continues its trend of pumping out weird flicks that don’t neatly fit into one genre with the new Brandy-led film The Front Room. The Front Room was written and…
- September 5, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Friday the 13th Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Jason Lives is the sixth entry in the Friday the 13th franchise and the last to feature Tommy Jarvis. This is Tommy’s third appearance in the series…
- September 5, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Review: A Busy Sequel for the Bio-Exorcist
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burtons thirty six year old cult classic. There have been numerous starts and stops for Keaton’s exterminator, with a working script for…
- September 4, 2024
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1992 Review: Ray Liotta’s Final Film
Ariel Vromen’s new film 1992 is interested in telling the story of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Until it isn’t. 1992 boasts a stellar cast including Ray Liotta’s final performance…
- September 4, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Friday the 13th A New Beginning
Friday the 13th A New Beginning is the fifth film in the franchise and one of the worst of the bunch. The series can easily be broken down into trilogies.…
- September 4, 2024
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Beetlejuice Retrospective: Being Dead Doesn’t Make Things Any Easier
Tim Burton’s cult classic Beetlejuice is getting a sequel 36 years after his original film. Beetlejuice is a strange dark comedy that has surprisingly endured for all these years. This…
- September 3, 2024
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13 Days to Friday the 13th: Friday the 13th The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th the final chapter, despite its name’s implication, is only the fourth film in the twelve-film series. The Final Chapter introduces Tommy Jarvis to the series. Tommy is…
- September 1, 2024
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Every Friday the 13th Movie Ranked
Sean Cunninghams’ original Friday the 13th film started with nothing more than a poster. The director took out an ad in Variety before he had even penned a script claiming…
- August 30, 2024
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Slingshot Review: Casey Affleck Struggles to Keep it Together in Space
Slingshot is the newest film from Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom. Hafstrom has helmed a handful of mid-budget films like 2011’s The Rite and the Stephen King adaptation 1408. This time…
- August 30, 2024
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AfrAId Review: A Surprisingly Fun Late Summer Horror Flick
Afraid is a smart and easily digestible summer horror movie from Blumhouse and Sony Pictures. The premise is pretty thin, and the dialogue is stale at times, but for a…