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9 months ago
Some B-movies find that their stories, aura and spirit work better when they go all in on the absurdity and throw all manner of common sense out the window. And then you get a film like the “Road House” remake that abruptly goes full-throttle... Read the full review »
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Fascination can be a mystifying allure when attached to whatever I choose to watch because most of the time, I go in with an open mind. Very rarely do I know a film is going to be good or bad and other times, I’m privy to just sit back and go wi... Read the full review »
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You ever feel in the mood for….just wanting to watch something crappy but still a little flavorful? That was my mindset going into “Irish Wish”…..and I wish I was more cynical about that approach from the offset. Of all the days I had to... Read the full review »
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Upon finishing Saint Maud and being wowed at its confident, gloriously perverse nature to ground and gross me out, I knew I had to keep a look out for Rose Glass’s next big project. Enter “Love Lies Bleeding”, a raucous, corporal phantasmago... Read the full review »
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10 months ago
Well well well, Jeff Wadlow. It’s been far too long since I’ve seen your cheeky, convoluted little disasterpieces, 4 years in fact. And with Blumhouse being the comically extreme enigma it’s become with its hits and misses, there was no doub... Read the full review »
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Damsel (2024)

Damsel (2024)

5 / 10
Evelyn Skye wrote the book “Damsel” back in April of last year about a princess who marries into another family to save her struggling kingdom only to be sacrificed to a dragon, so she must learn to adapt and survive on her own. Sounds interes... Read the full review »
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Kung Fu Panda has to be one of the biggest and most unexpected illustrations behind the “Don’t judge a book by its cover” adage to have ever existed. One of my favorite animated films ever and one of DreamWorks’s best series’s returns wi... Read the full review »
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen a horror movie done with Stopmotion animation, let alone one executed with this much resolute patience and ambition as, well, “Stopmotion”. But even that comes with a LOT OF CAVEATS. Some directors have... Read the full review »
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10 months ago
No need to menace words: “Players” is another second-hand level embarrassment that Netflix has nobody to blame but themselves for. At best, at the absolute bare minimum, it’s just another bland, predictable romcom but at worst, it’s more t... Read the full review »
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Back when I first reviewed Dune: Part One back in 2021, I was very deliberate in picking my words carefully to say I LIKED the film: it was just a lot of exposition and table setting but everything surrounding and engulfing it was so well-construc... Read the full review »
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