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Mike Flanagan’s 2016 Hush feels like a cinematic exercise to create the purest thriller possible: a collection of set pieces with minimal dialogue and...
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Packed with exclusive content, this fully illustrated tome sheds light on how Captain America: The Winter Soldier was created, including concept art, drawings, movie...
As the year draws to a close, the obligatory family blockbusters are beginning to be released in a bid to lure in audiences seeking...
On Blu-ray for the first time, 2016’s Little Boxes, directed by Rob Meyer, is a poignant yet understated exploration of race, identity, and...
Mike Flanagan’s 2016 Hush feels like a cinematic exercise to create the purest thriller possible: a collection of set pieces with minimal dialogue and...
The Short Film has been a launching pad of sorts for many filmmakers. Ridley Scott, Damien Chazelle, and Christopher Nolan all cut their teeth...
Perhaps the greatest collaboration between the legendary director John Ford and his famed leading man John Wayne, the 1956 Warner Bros. classic The Searchers will...
Every stew needs a pinch of salt, but you can’t make a stew out of salt. That culinary metaphor may seem an incongruous...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
Thanksgiving is a strange bird: where comedy and the slasher genre have coexisted since Wes Craven’s Scream in 1996, generally the humor is...
Collecting one of the better original animated movies and it’s sequel on Blu-ray for the first time, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island marked a...
Anticipation has always been a double-edged sword in cinema. Even a fairly decent movie will have studios hoping that a second crack at the...
Alien: Romulus is almost everything you could want from a soft reboot of the Alien films: strong evocation of the production design and...
This December 10, the cherished duo of Wallace and Gromit will pack their cheese and travel to fans in the handsome collector’s set Wallace...
Belief. It is one of the cornerstones of religion. I am not religious. I was raised Fundamentalist Baptist and my family was kicked out...
Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher is one of the greatest horror films of the 1980’s, full stop. It’s also so much more. A dark...
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the beloved sci-fi comedy classic GALAXY QUEST as it arrives for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD...
Those who have been reading my reviews on this site for some time know my great affection for the work of Indonesian gore-king Timo...
American Movie is a painful watch. Usually that’s a dealbreaker. In the case of Chris Smith’s unflinching (but not unfeeling) 1999 documentary about Mark...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
In January of 2020 I walked into a public movie theater for the last time for a little more than 3 years. The film...
I thoroughly enjoyed the original A Quiet Place. When the sequel A Quiet Place II came out, it was barely a blip on my...
The 1955 children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon is simplicity itself: a four-year-old boy, Harold, has nothing to fill his world but empty...
Director Wes Craven struck gold in his 1972 debut with Last House on the Left, a grindhouse remake of an art house classic...