AMC’s New Anne Rice Series Is Smart & Stylish
Nothing ever dies. It’s true in television as much as it is in vampire fiction, as the last few decades of weaponized nostalgia have seen dozens of properties remade for the small screen. Most of them are mere echoes of…
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Crime Scene | Film Threat
Crime Scene is sustained by the barest of narratives, but co-writer/director Pedro Tavares rewards patient viewers with an unsettling sense of creeping trepidation. It’s the holiday season in Rio de Janeiro. A solitary woman smoking a cigarette is in the foreground…
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The Meteoric Rise and Catastrophic Fall of a Business Empire
Continuing to capitalize on '80s nostalgia by optioning TV shows based on real-life people and events, Hulu's Welcome to Chippendales is part-true crime, part-biopic, part-men doing cheesy dance routines while stripping, and 100% pure guilty pleasure. The limited series tells…
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Crandall’s Outlandish Comedy Struggles To Bring The Laughs
Home Movie Reviews Bromates Review: Crandall’s Outlandish Comedy Struggles To Bring The Laughs There’s an enormous effort to entertain, but Bromates runs out of ideas faster than it can provide organic laughs. Brendan Scannell, Lil Rel Howery, Josh Brener, and…
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Meet Cute Review: Depressingly Beautiful
Now streaming on Peacock we bring you our thoughts on this depressingly beautiful movie with our Meet Cute review. Sheila, a young woman grappling with suicidal thoughts, discovers that a tanning bed in a nail salon is a time machine.…
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The Walking Dead Series Finale Review: Rest in Peace
It was more than a decade ago that The Walking Dead aired its stunning first episode. Such a strong beginning is difficult to remember as we now find ourselves at the end of a meandering final season that, like the…
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Rob Zombie’s ‘The Munsters’ Is A Fittingly Ridiculous Tribute To Campy Spookiness [Review]
There has always been a certain dark irreverence and cartoonish bizarreness to musician-turned-director Rob Zombie’s cinematic outings, as prominently seen in his earliest horror sagas “House of a Thousand Corpses” and its sequel “The Devil’s Rejects.” Take, for example, Captain…
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Broker | Film Threat
OPENING IN NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES! The United States is in the midst of its most intense battle over reproductive rights. That makes the core narrative of writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda’s Broker, to say the least, timely. The film opens…
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Mark Boal’s Foray Into Television Falls Flat
Home TV Reviews 'Echo 3' Review: Mark Boal's Foray Into Thriller Television Falls Flat There is much that Echo 3 seems to be going for in grappling with deeper ideas, but it lacks the focus necessary to pull it off.…
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Joseph Sorrentino’s CIA Thriller Is Detailed & Effective
Home Movie Reviews MK Ultra Review: Joseph Sorrentino's CIA Thriller Is Detailed & Effective Its tone & performances are in lockstep, creating a familiar but effective vibe, making MK Ultra a no-frills thriller reminiscent of 70s paranoia. In the 1960s, the…
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Zavetti Canada Review: Strong Canada Goose Competition
Canada Goose are certainly the (un)official jackets worn on film sets anywhere that its cold but there’s one much smaller brand catching them up in terms of quality and affordability. Is there a new film set jacket company hot on…
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Another Engaging Puzzle for Viewers to Solve From Dark Creators
It took some time for Dark to become an international success, but once word-of-mouth did it, the German series by Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar became one of Netflix's biggest hits. Two years after Dark’s finale, Friese and bo…
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