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Magazine Dreams: A Fitting Portrait of Male Fragility and Redemption (Sundance Film Festival)
Jonathan Majors was on the cusp of stardom and seemed headed for his first Oscar nomination before an incident in the streets of New York City made his persona non grata in mainstream film circles, cost him his Marvel Cinematic…
Read More »Mickey 17 is Thematically Ambitious to a Fault, but Still Entertains
Writer/director Bong Joon Ho vaulted into the mainstream consciousness with the success of 2019’s Parasite, winner of four Academy awards including Best Picture, the first international feature to do so. With that momentum in mind, his return to…
Read More »The Monkey’s Overreliance Humor Undercuts It’s Potential
Fresh off of last year’s sleeper horror hit <i>Longlegs</i>, writer/director Osgood Perkins’s quickly returns to the big screen with an adaptation of a short story from legendary author Stephen King. In <i>The Monkey</i>, twin brothers Hal and Bill,…
Read More »Heart Eyes Has Cult Classic, Franchise Potential
We’ve seen an influx of holiday themed horror slashers in recent years and the production team behind the Scream franchise revival Spyglass Media is trying their hands at one centered around the ultimate romantic holiday. In Heart Eyes,…
Read More »Presence Combines the Paranormal with Drama For An Interesting Concept
Famed director Steven Soderbergh has returned to cinemas with an interesting new horror concept. Presence introduces us to the Payne family as they move into a new home. The family’s matriarch Rebecca (Lucy Liu) views it as an…
Read More »Wolf Man Lacks Bite Where It Needed It
******************This review contains a major spoiler********************* Following the unsuccessful attempt at launching a cinematic universe of its legendary monsters, Universal Pictures went back to the drawing board and outsourced the attempt at modernizing the iconic terrors to indie…
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Death of a Unicorn Underwhelms Despite Potential
In many ways, America and much of the developed world, is currently in the midst of an ethical crisis. As tech companies continue to move toward perfecting artificial intelligence, even as concerns loom regarding a potential shrinkage of…
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