Category: Reviews
New Pinhead Shines In Sturdy But Fairly Safe Remake
New Pinhead Shines In Sturdy But Fairly Safe Remake

These days, it's not surprising when something with name recognition gets remade, but some things are actually ripe for a revisit. 1987's Hellraiser, in the humble opinion of this critic, is one of them. While the Clive Barker original that…

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Disney Tries to Avoid the Past
Disney Tries to Avoid the Past

This review was originally part of our 2022 SXSW coverage. In exploring the creation of Mickey Mouse by Walt Disney, Mickey: The Story of a Mouse shows how Disney himself had many different versions of this origin story. Walt knew…

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Cringe Comedy With Heart of Gold
Cringe Comedy With Heart of Gold

If you grew up with siblings of any kind, you'll certainly find The People We Hate at the Wedding to be equal parts relatable and awkward. Kristen Bell and Ben Platt lead the romantic comedy as a pair of siblings…

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Port Vale Upper Hospitality Suite Review: Championship Ready
Port Vale Upper Hospitality Suite Review: Championship Ready

During a cold Wednesday on the evening of a Papa Johns’s Trophy round of 32 game, we took a trip down to Vale Park in Burslem to bring you this Port Vale upper hospitality suite review. Formerly known as the…

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Amber Road | Film Threat
Amber Road | Film Threat

Written and directed by B. Luciano Barsuglia, Amber Road takes a look at the depraved and dangerous things that happen on the dark web. While it is hardly the first film to explore such a thing, the filmmaker offers up…

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Kevin Williamson & John Hyams’ COVID Horror Film Is Worth Catching [Fantastic Fest]
Kevin Williamson & John Hyams’ COVID Horror Film Is Worth Catching [Fantastic Fest]

Are you over the COVID pandemic, or are you over COVID pandemic horror films? Probably both. This makes “Sick” a hard sell: A horror movie born in the pandemic era, set in April 2020, when all but a handful of…

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A Horror Movie With An Identity Crisis
A Horror Movie With An Identity Crisis

The Visitor tries to be a mash-up of several genres, but it would've been much better suited picking one horror lane and leaning into it. Finn Jones in The Visitor  For much of The Visitor's runtime, things go as expected…

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Jeremy Pope Gives Life to Introspective Military Drama
Jeremy Pope Gives Life to Introspective Military Drama

Home Movie Reviews ‘The Inspection’ Review: Jeremy Pope Gives Life to Introspective Military Drama A work that is best when at its most personal, Bratton's feature debut establishes that he is a filmmaker worth watching. Image via A24 All art…

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A More Chilling Spin on the Creepy, Kooky Addams Family
A More Chilling Spin on the Creepy, Kooky Addams Family

The creepy and kooky Addams Family, arguably the First Family of spooky season, have had a perpetual presence in popular culture over the decades. After getting their start in Charles Addams' New Yorker comics in the '30s, and debuting onscreen…

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Floyd Mayweather Vs Deji Fight Was a Bit of A Joke
Floyd Mayweather Vs Deji Fight Was a Bit of A Joke

God bless the highlights reel as I sit here feeling sorry for everybody who paid to see the Floyd Mayweather Vs Deji fight last night. Retired boxing legend, Floyd Mayweather stepped into the ring with English YouTuber Deji last night…

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

NOW ON NETFLIX! Benoit Blanc returns to the big screen… small screen in writer-director Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Yeah, I know, Last Jedi, blah, blah, blah. The story revolves around a Steve Jobs-type billionaire named Miles Bron (Edward…

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David Farrier Bites Off More Than He Can Chew In Excellent New Doc [Fantastic Fest]
David Farrier Bites Off More Than He Can Chew In Excellent New Doc [Fantastic Fest]

When journalist and documentarian David Farrier grows restless, he must wish for the cosmos to deliver him a story in his niche: kooky, off-radar, and with a forbidding underbelly. And when David Farrier makes a wish, a monkey paw on…

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