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Hellboy Review
Neil Marshall’s Hellboy has faced immeasurable apprehension since satanic conception, as Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman’s defenders voiced outrage upon hearing Lionsgate’s decision to reboot Big...
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Something Else Review [Tribeca 2019]
Jeremy Gardner’s Something Else promises a brisk Florida creature feature, ends up a perfect companion to 2014’s Spring based on romantic tone, and seals all-important sincerity during a 90s-classic...
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Review
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is a gunsmoke hazy, bloody-knuckle ruthless, impossibly badass Wickian continuation. Every offered and foreseeable ass is proficiently kicked. Or karate chopped. Or...
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David Yarovesky’s Brightburn earns every puddle of eye juice, mangled corpse, and horrific disfigured gore effect of its *hard* R-rating. Yes, this is the “evil Superman origin” slasher promised....
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Ma Review
Tate Taylor’s predatory party-animal thriller Ma breaks ground for Octavia Spencer’s career portfolio, but not the “Obsession Revenge” subgenre. As a character, “Ma” permits Spencer an outlet for...
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Godzilla: King Of The Monsters Review
“Let them fight.” A pivotal line of dialogue uttered by Ken Watanabe, as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, in Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla foretells the fate of Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. When...
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The Dead Don’t Die Review [Overlook 2019]
Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die presupposes you, the audience, have never watched a zombie comedy before. As if The Return Of The Living Dead, Zombieland, Shaun Of The Dead, Juan Of The Dead – so...
View ArticleDark Phoenix Review
Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix might as well be retitled Contractual Obligations: The Movie. For a comic book adaptation of this thematic magnitude, speaking for female representation en masse, it’s...
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Child’s Play Review
Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Play strips Don Mancini’s voodoo creation of his serial killer soul, replaces it with tampered A.I. programming, and “reimagines” a wholly new genre sandbox. For better, for...
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Annabelle Comes Home Review
In 2014, if someone claimed Annabelle would spawn the ‘Conjurverse’s’ most successful spinoff sequels, I’d’ve gone blue in the face from laughter. Not even Nostradamus could prophesize the leap in...
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Spider-Man: Far From Home Review
Avengers: Endgame left the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a state of mournful disarray that Spider-Man: Far From Home immediately addresses. All those questions about “Blip” related details (the...
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Crawl Review
Alexandre Aja’s Crawl takes a ferocious bite out of this summer’s horror competition. As a lover of “Aqua Terror” and “When Animals Attack” savagery, a smile stayed plastered across my face all...
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Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Review
According to Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark‘s narration, some stories hurt. Some stories heal. In the case of André Øvredal’s bone-chilling anthology adaptation, some stories scare the ever-loving...
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged Review
“Aqua Horror,” specifically shark cinema, continues to surface title upon title after a sunken period. Between The Shallows, The Meg, and lesser-budgeted splashes such as Johannes Roberts’ 47 Meters...
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Ready Or Not Review
Radio Silence’s Ready Or Not raises the bar for any horror comedy that dares challenge “Milton Bradley’s Most Dangerous Game.” A bloody vicious, bloody hilarious, and bloody freakin’ outrageous winner....
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It: Chapter Two Review
Andy Muschietti’s return to Derry, Maine is accompanied by incomparable fanfare. It floated up, up and away to inflated critical infatuation and mountains of box office returns, creating an instant...
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Synchronic Review [TIFF 2019]
If you (somehow) aren’t obsessing over filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Synchronic will change that. Not because it’s their finest achievement to date, but because their ethereal brand of...
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3 From Hell Review
3 From Hell confirms what 31 suggests: Rob Zombie “The Horror Experimentalist” has become Rob Zombie “The Blind Provocateur.” His Firefly threequel is just an excuse to splatter more blood, slaughter...
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Zombieland: Double Tap Review
Well, it’s undeniable: Zombieland: Double Tap – sure as rotter stench – is a Zombieland sequel. I say that with pause, adoration, and admittance that fans of Ruben Fleischer’s sensational 2009 zom-com...
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Terminator: Dark Fate Review
For as time-hoppy-twisted and messily scripted the last two Terminator franchise entries were, Terminator: Dark Fate isn’t all that more successful beyond slavish recreation. Sarah Connor stopped...
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