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‘Abigail’ Review: Goofy Self-Aware Horror With a Blood Sucking Ballerina

Though Universal’s attempt at a cinematic universe—a horror equivalent of the MCU—was buried with 2017’s The Mummy , the studio has been...

18.04.2024 8

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‘Fallout’ Review: A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure With a Sick Sense of Humor

It’s reductive to refer to every big-budget TV adaptation of a popular video game as “[studio]’s answer to The Last of Us .” But there is...

11.04.2024 30

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ S5 Review: Final Season Is Its Best

Star Trek: Discovery occupies an interesting place in the celebrated franchise. It was the first Trek series of the streaming era, the first to...

03.04.2024 8

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‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Review: Tag-Team Monster Wrestling

This past winter, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki and Japanese studio Toho unveiled Godzilla Minus One , a rich, character-driven parable about...

28.03.2024 10

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‘Sugar’ Review: Colin Farrell Neo-Noir Series Is a Long Reveal

Watch the trailer for Sugar and you’ll see what appears to be a fairly ordinary neo-noir set in present day Los Angeles centered around a...

28.03.2024 20

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‘Immaculate’ Review: Sydney Sweeney Takes (Bloody) Aim at Being an Object of Worship

The Internet at large is very weird about sydney sweeney. For a while, she merely attracted the typical scrutiny and fixation of a magnetic young...

20.03.2024 2

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Kristen Kish On Becoming the New Host of ‘Top Chef’

There’s an episode of 30 Rock in which comedy writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) decides to play hardball when negotiating a talk show development deal...

19.03.2024 3

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‘Road House’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal In A Bloodthirsty Meh

Back in January, Road House director Doug Liman announced that he would be boycotting his own film’s SXSW premiere to protest Amazon’s...

19.03.2024 6

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‘3 Body Problem’ Review: Netflix Sci-Fi Thriller is Binge Worthy and Brainy

Five years after their goal-line fumble of the massively popular HBO series Game of Thrones , writer-producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are...

13.03.2024 7

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‘Elsbeth’ Review: Catching Criminals The Cute, Colorful Way!

In 2009, producers Robert and Michelle King brought us The Good Wife , one of the last great broadcast network dramas. Launching under the guise of...

28.02.2024 5

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‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Review: Twisted, Horny, And Bloody Fun

In some ways, Lisa Frankenstein feels like it arrived on a time machine from the year 1989. To begin with, it seems like a movie that began as a...

07.02.2024 40

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Got Time For Pure Cinema? Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Travels Back to Theaters

Early in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller Tenet , a scientist (Clémence Poésy) demonstrates the film’s bizarre time travel gimmick for...

02.02.2024 9

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The Five Most Underrated Episodes Of ‘The Sopranos’

What does it mean for an episode of The Sopranos to be “underrated?” David Chase’s generation-defining drama is one of the most immaculate...

19.01.2024 6

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‘I.S.S.’ Review: A Sci-Fi Thriller Without Gravity

There’s something exciting about deliberately small science fiction stories. Sci-fi, after all, can be as much an intellectual exercise as an...

17.01.2024 2

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‘True Detective: Night Country’ Review: Mystery, Misery, Horror, And An Endless Night

True Detective , the anthology mystery series that captivated HBO viewers back in 2014, returns this weekend for its first new season in five years....

12.01.2024 10

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‘Echo’ Review: Exactly The Sort Of TV Show Marvel Should Be Making

Are there still casual Marvel Studios fans? If you believe the doomsayers in the press ( I’m one of them ), the superhero movie boom has finally...

11.01.2024 10

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‘Night Swim’ Review: Watered Down Horror

January is an infamous Hollywood dumping ground for movies the studios don’t expect to draw big money or awards attention. Horror, however, is...

05.01.2024 2

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Mask of the Phantasm is still the best Batman movie

As a teenage comic book fan coming of age as superheroes were breaking into the mainstream, I always approached any conversation about Batman with a...

25.12.2023 4

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Does Aquaman Matter?

It may be too soon to declare that the superhero movie bubble has burst. After all, adaptations of Marvel comics still comprise three of this year’s...

22.12.2023 5

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‘Rebel Moon’ Review: An Epic Trilogy Begins With An Epic Blunder

I’ll admit to having a soft spot for Zack Snyder. I’m not sure I’d go so far as to call him a good director, but he is an interesting one,...

19.12.2023 5

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Best TV of 2023: Every Second Counts in Two of The Year’s Greatest Episodes

It’s hard to measure the year in television. The deluge of content makes it difficult for any one moment to stick in our cultural memory as in years...

13.12.2023 2

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Battlestar Galactica showed fandom a better way

Twenty years ago, writer-producer Ronald D. Moore refused to give a crowd of angry, disappointed sci-fi nerds what they wanted. This was Galacticon in...

08.12.2023 9

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‘Leave the World Behind’ Review: A Dumb Movie Disguised as a Smart Movie

Early in Leave the World Behind , media studies professor Clay Sandford (Ethan Hawke) brags to his wife Amanda (Julia Roberts) that one of his...

06.12.2023 7

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‘The Treasure of Foggy Mountain’ Review: Please Don’t Destroy Go Long With Mixed Results

During the crushing months of the COVID-19 pandemic, sketch comedy group Please Don’t Destroy provided much-needed relief with a string of endlessly...

17.11.2023 2

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‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Review: Animated Series Levels Up With New Perspectives

Despite underperforming in theaters back in 2010, the Edgar Wright film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World instantly amassed a cult following through its...

17.11.2023 10

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‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Review: Actually Good, Not Just a Good Time

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is grown-up, character-driven television wrapped in a monster-movie shell. There’s a chance that the film franchise...

14.11.2023 7

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‘For All Mankind’ Season 4 Review: Life, And The Class Struggle, On Mars

The year is 2003. More and more consumers are carrying phones in their pockets, the Strokes are leading a garage rock revival, and President Al Gore...

06.11.2023 2

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‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ Review: Zero Thrills In This Video Game Adaptation

While the boom of movies and shows based on video games has only hit a fever pitch in the past year or two, the phenomenon of watching...

26.10.2023 2

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How Tom Polce and Kay Hanley Took Star Trek To Broadway, And Beyond

In the theater world, it can take years to compose and stage a musical. For “Subspace Rhapsody,” the musical episode of the Paramount (PARA) ...

13.10.2023 4

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‘Loki’ Season 2, Episode 1 Review: Marvel’s Last Must-Watch Product

Even for me, a lifelong superhero comics fan for whom frequent big budget live-action adaptations was once a far-fetched dream, Marvel Fatigue is a...

06.10.2023 2

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‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Review: A Reboot Too Painstaking To Be Horrifying

Call me The Exorcist: Skeptic , but I had a lot of doubts going into The Exorcist: Believer . I’m a fan of what director David Gordon Green...

04.10.2023 2

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‘The Creator’ Review: A Rare Original In The Shape of Sci-Fi Blockbuster

It feels strange to frame The Creator as an underdog. A science fiction war movie from director Gareth Edwards ( Rogue One , the 2014 ...

26.09.2023 2

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‘The Continental’ Review: This John Wick Miniseries Doesn’t Disappoint

Even fans of John Wick had reason to be skeptical of studio Lionsgate’s attempts to expand the film series into an ongoing multi-media franchise....

20.09.2023 6

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Michael Jai White On ‘Outlaw Johnny Black’: “The Epitome Of An Independent Film”

There are few performers in Hollywood whose description requires more hyphens than actor-writer-director-producer-martial artist Michael Jai White....

15.09.2023 3

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