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Hollywood Suite's SHOCKTOBER Features a Massive Lineup of Halloween Faves
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Spooky season is coming! Hollywood Suite will sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the eeeeeeedge! Hollywood Suite have announced their lineup of spooky season films for the month of October. The specialty channel...
THE CREATOR Review: Gareth Edwards Returns with Poignant Sci-Fi Parable
John David Washington and Gemma Chan star in the science-fiction action-adventure.
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU Review: Close Encounters of the Silent Kind
Kaitlyn Dever gives a bravura performance in a new thriller by Brian Duffield, now streaming on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney Plus in Canada and all other territories.
EXPEND4BLES Review: Belated Fourth Entry in the Franchise Disappoints, Underwhelms
What started more than a decade ago as a way for multi-hyphenate Sylvester Stallone to chill out with his movie-star buddies, make a low-effort, if still bankable, action flick, and collect a paycheck at the same time (i.e., The Expendables)...
THE CONTINENTAL Review: Winston Scott Would Like to Speak With The Manager
The year is 1977. The place is New York City. On New Year's Eve Winston Scott’s estranged brother, Frankie, has gone and done something foolish. Frankie has stolen from his boss Cormac, the current manager of The Continental Hotel in...
Criterion in December 2023: Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO, Plus BLAST OF SILENCE
Also: 'The Red Balloon and Other Stories.'
Toronto 2023 Review: WOMAN OF THE HOUR, Going Head-to-Head with a Killer
Women are not believed. This has been true for decades (if not centuries) and it has allowed men to perpetrate terrible crimes, almost in plain sight, without remorse or consequences. I realise this is something of a blanket statement (yes,...
DUMB MONEY Review: The GameStop Short Squeeze of 2021 Gets Its Own Movie
Director Craig Gillespie's newest biographical comedy-drama stars Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio and Seth Rogen.
Beyond Fest 2023: Lineup of Classic And Current Faves Highlight This Year's Edition
Beyond Fest have just unveiled the lineup for this year's edition of the two-week spectacle. As always, the lineup is a stellar mix of contemporary hits and celebrated classics. Among the classic that genre lovers will not want to...
Toronto 2023 Review: POOLMAN, An Earnest if Misguided Comedy-Neo-Noir
A few years ago, I was taking an Uber back to my airbnb in Los Angeles; the driver, it turns out, was something of a conspiracy theorist. At first he was just telling me about the politics of the city,...
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Trailer: Mike Flanagan Goes Bigger Than Ever in Horror Drama For Netflix
From Mike Flanagan, the creator of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, a wicked horror series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of...
Toronto 2023 Review: QUIZ LADY, Sister Bonding on the Road
The opposite-people-coming-together-in-a-crisis comedy has a good tradition in Hollywood cinema (and perhaps there is a more succinct term for it that I can't think of). Certainly with siblings especially, it provides relatable complex relationships for a broad audience to connect...
TOTALLY KILLER: Official Trailer And Poster Revealed For Time-Travelling Slasher Comedy
Thirty-five years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer“ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. Seventeen-year-old Jamie (Shipka) ignores her overprotective mom’s (Bowen) warning and comes face-to-face with the masked maniac and,...
A MILLION MILES AWAY Review: Migrant Farm Worker Goes to Space
Michael Pena, Rosa Salazar, and Garret Dillahunt star in the authentic true-life story, directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella, debuting on Prime Video.
A HAUNTING IN VENICE Review: Branagh Delivers Triumphant Third Poirot Adaptation
Over the last decade, actor, screenwriter, and director Kenneth Branagh (Belfast, Hamlet, Henry V) has shifted his attention from kickstarting one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most popular superheroes, Thor, to attempting to reboot the late Tom Clancy’s most famous...
THE NUN II Review: The Dark One Returns
With a cool $2.1 billion (US) take across a series spanning a decade, eight entries, and a rate of investment that would make any studio envious, the so-called Conjuring Universe shows little, if any, sign of slowing down, let alone...
FearFest, Shocked by Shudder: Spooky Season Programming Expands Across All AMC Networks
Spooky season is officially here. Don't fight it! Embrace it! Who are we speaking to!?! You're all on board, right? RIGHT!?! We're a couple days behind on Shudder and AMC Networks' announcement of their Fearfest celebration. For the next...
THE EQUALIZER 3 Review: Denzel Washington Elevates Uneven, Middling Entry
Moments into the inelegantly titled The Equalizer 3, the trilogy capper that reunites director Antoine Fuqua (Emancipation, The Magnificent Seven, Training Day), and screenwriter Richard Wenk (The Equalizer and The Equalizer 2), with two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington, two men...
THE KILLER Trailer: Fincher And Fassbender Excite in an International Man-Hunt
After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
BOTTOMS Review: Hilarious, Original, Must-See Queer Teen Comedy
Rachel Sennott and Emma Seligman ('Shiva Baby') team up again for a subversive queer teen comedy.
