Clayface Review: DC Delivers Gruesome Body Horror
Clayface brings Gotham’s monster to life through practical effects and strong performances, though some rushed moments hold it back.
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Gravest Gravy Unearths Long-Lost Sessions From One of Rock’s Most Brilliantly Deranged Bands: Album Review
The Cramps were one of the greatest and strangest bands to emerge from the punk-rock generation — which is truly saying something. By fusing rockabilly with humor and imagery inspired by vintage horror movies, they helped to pioneer the sound sometimes called psychobilly — a gloriously twisted take on rockabilly’s trademark twang and groove with deranged […]
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Netflix’s Engaging Crime Drama ‘Blood Sacrifice’ Spotlights Inept Policing: TV Review
“Hijack” and “Lupin” creator George Kay is no stranger to engrossing dramas, and in his newest Netflix series, “Blood Sacrifice,” a grisly Swedish crime thriller, Kay unpacks the unending mental toll of police work. It’s a psychological load that extends beyond law enforcers and spills onto their closest friends and family members. Intense, bloody and […]
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‘The End Of Oak Street’ Review: Anne Hathaway And Ewan McGregor Try To Save Marriage By Battling Dinosaurs In A Rip-Roaring Ride Of A Summer Movie
Anne Hathaway has five, count ’em, five movies in release this year between May and October. The End Of Oak Street is the one that clearly isn’t going to take her back to the Academy Awards. However considering the sheer hell her suburban wife and mother goes through battling packs of dinosaurs while trying to […]
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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Review: The Movie Warner Bros Shelved In 2023 Becomes Its Most Entertaining Film Of 2026 & Best Live Action/Toon Hybrid Since ‘Roger Rabbit’
What in the world was Warner Bros thinking? In 2023 the studio canceled, shelved and ditched the finished animated/live action hybrid feature Coyote vs. Acme in favor of a tax writeoff rather than releasing the movie in theaters, or even streaming. This sort of corporate move would indicate the studio thinks the movie itself just […]
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‘Don’t Say Good Luck’ Review: Melanie Lynskey And Sunny Sandler Shine In Heartbreaking Coming Of Age True Story
After showing genuine talent opposite her father Adam Sandler in 2023’s Netflix comedy, You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, Sunny Sandler 100% confirms that talent runs in the family with another Netflix film produced by Happy Madison (her father’s production company) and right in line with the heartfelt coming of age films […]
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‘The Wrong Girls’ Review: Kristen Stewart & Alia Shawkat Are Co-Dependent Buds Who Can Read Minds (And Coughs) In Heartfelt Stoner Comedy
Move over, Cheech and Chong. Make room, Jay and Silent Bob. Don’t bogart the good stuff, Harold and Kumar. There’s a new duo in the blunt rotation, with Frankie (Kristen Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat) in The Wrong Girls. Written and directed by Stewart’s wife Dylan Meyer, the stoner comedy is inspired by one of […]
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‘Borges And Me’ Review: Marc Turtletaub’s Hallucinatory ’70s Road Trip Is Smart, Literary And Playful – Edinburgh Film Festival
Sometimes it feels like the growing subset of films set in the stuffy British academic world of the early ’70s deserve a genre all to themselves. It’s a very interesting visual paradox; young people going out into the world to discover and further themselves in an environment that’s been stained nicotine-brown by the chain-smokers of […]
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The End of Oak Street Review: Dinosaur Chaos Meets Family Drama
The End of Oak Street offers fun dinosaur chaos and strong performances, but predictable writing and frustrating characters hold it back.
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‘Snapshot’ Review: A Nifty Calling-Card Debut Refashions the Jack the Ripper Story as Found-Footage Horror
Found footage may be a fairly stale gimmick in horror these days, but the low-budget British indie “Snapshot” finds a way to freshen up the idea — and if that largely amounts to layering another technical gimmick over it, the results are nonetheless striking. Emulating the look of 19th-century pinhole photography, with the entire film […]
