Erotic Horror Is Long On Innuendo, Short On Climax As It Fails To Deliver On A Promising Premise
Picture this: you splurge on a stunning estate on AirBnB for a romantic weekend with your long-time partner, only for another couple to show up having done the same, on a different app. With the hosts not responding to messages…
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Desire, Duty, and Deception Collide
Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes is an evocative, bruising romantic thriller that takes place in the shadowy underbelly of 1990s New York, where personal identity collides with institutional control. More than just a story about police work, the film is a taut…
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Real-Life Couple Justin Long and Kate Bosworth Have Tons of Fun in a Creature Feature That Plays It Too Safe
In 2022, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth teamed up for the horror comedy House of Darkness. A year later, the actors got married and are now parents, so it's fun to see them working together again for another outing in…
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Raoul Peck’s Everything Bagel Documentary Puts Too Much In the Author’s Mouth [TIFF]
Everyone has their own George Orwell and tends to think everyone else gets him wrong. As such, making a sprawling quasi-biographical documentary like “Orwell: 2+2=5” is a brave effort bound to exasperate people across the political spectrum. Even so, Raoul…
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35 Years Later, Zhang Yimou’s Love Story Remains A Vibrantly Colored Tragedy
"Uncle bought another wife. Her name is Ju Dou. Pretty looking... expensive." So begins our first introduction to Gong Li's titular character, and the film's ethos is introduced. Depending on your outlook, Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou is either a cynical,…
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A Surprisingly Hilarious Horror Movie Stuck in a Franchise That’s Completely Out of Ideas
When the first V/H/S film, produced by Bloody Disgusting, came out in 2012, it was a fresh take on horror, combining the anthology and found footage subgenres into realistic, bite-sized terror. The film created some of the most terrifying moments…
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Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson Face Off in a Sharp Body Horror That Fans of ‘The Substance’ Will Devour
In a year of great cinema, The Substance was by far my favorite movie that 2024 had to offer. Coralie Fargeat's gruesome, fantastical take on women's body image was a wicked blend of Cronenberg and Kubrick, viewed through a very…
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Review: Whimsical But Uneven
Kogonada has always been a director fascinated by memory, connection, and the textures of time. From his meditative Columbus to the sci-fi reflection of After Yang, his films lean toward the quiet, contemplative, and poetic. With A Big Bold Beautiful…
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The Smashing Machine Review | Flickreel
What’s the difference between “movie stars” and “actors?” We expect an actor to play a wide variety of different roles. Movie stars are expected to play themselves, selling the project with their bankable name, face, and persona. Dwayne Johnson is…
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Mark Ruffalo & Tom Pelphrey Shine In Brad Ingelsby’s Captivating Crime Drama About Losing Faith
“It’s easy to talk about forgiveness and mercy when it’s not your loss,” Mark Ruffalo wearily says in the new HBO series “Task,” and with that, writer/creator Brad Ingelsby effectively lays down the heavy emotional gauntlet for what will be…
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Tobe Hooper & Stephen King’s Quintessential 1979 Horror Shines In 4K, Revealing Its Timeliness
Small towns are rapidly losing their distinct charm, but that feeling of driving past a small American place and thinking it never left the 1950s, Salem's Lot presupposes: what if it's frozen by vampiric bloodlust? Stephen King's second novel has…
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An Unexpected Cameo From ‘The Boys’ Leads to the Show’s Darkest Twist Yet
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Gen V Season 2 Episode 5. Gen V Season 2 has moved into its second half by revealing just how dark things can get. After Episode 4, "Bags," showed Marie (Jaz Sinclair),…
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