Category: Category: Movies
Captain Marvel: Random Thoughts
Captain Marvel’s reviews are all in, and the arguments for and against her are in full swing. I’m not […]
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Rare Exports Delivers the Goods
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is absolutely delightful. Written and directed by Jalmari Helander, the 2010 Finnish comedy-horror film […]
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Don’t Look Now: Nicholas Roeg’s Grim Ghost Story
Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now has long been considered a classic of the horror genre. But it […]
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Automata Is Less Than Meets the Eye
Automata, a bit of Spanish-Bulgarian science fiction from 2014, begins in familiar territory. A post-apocalyptic world. A monolithic city […]
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Dark City: Landscape and Memory
Dark City, Alex Proyas’s 1998 follow-up to his legendary The Crow, is an ambitious, overfull classic in its own […]
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Ghost Stories Knows What’s Really Scary
Ghost Stories is a low-key movie that blends the supernatural and the mundane into a genuinely eerie episodic tale. […]
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Mandy: Love, Loss, and Nicholas Cage on a Rampage
Mandy isn’t the kind of movie that can be ranked on a scale of good to bad. It it […]
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Ghoul: Folklore, Fascists, and Fear
Ghoul, the new three-episode miniseries from Netflix, generates its chills with a blend of tried-and-true tropes borrowed from multiple […]
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Evolution’s Horror is Subtle by Design
The odd and resonant Evolution is a beautiful and seductive slice of art-house horror. Written and directed by Lucile […]
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Ant Man and The Wasp Has Some Bugs to Work Out
Ant Man and The Wasp is very much like its predecessor–a lightweight, likeable Marvel Universe flick that is still […]
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