Category: Category: Movies
The Dead Don’t Die Does Right by Zombies
The Dead Don’t Die is nothing but delightful. Jim Jarmusch’s star-laden zombie flick is part homage, part send-up, and […]
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Read This: Lurker in the Lobby
Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. Lovecraft is an older but still handy guide […]
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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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