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LISA FRANKENSTEIN Review: 80s Goth Throwback Disappoints, Underwhelms
Losing a parental figure, biological or otherwise, as a teen can have long-term, lifelong effects, most of them related to the initial, life-changing trauma. Losing the same parent to an axe-wielding intruder can double or triple that trauma, but in...
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Review: Mike Flanagan Ends His Partnership With Netflix On A High Note
Mike Flanagan’s (The Midnight Club, Midnight Mass, Gerald's Game) The Fall of the House of Usher, like his four previous ones, is a supernatural horror series influenced and inspired by classic works of horror: Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill...
Review: ELIZABETH HARVEST, An Expressionistic Survival Story
The Venezuelan writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez revises the Bluebeard myth for his latest feature-length offering, Elizabeth Harvest
Watch Exclusive ELIZABETH HARVEST Clip: What's For Dinner?
Forbidden rooms cause more marital difficulties than anything else. I am not married, so I don't know if that is actually true, but it certainly seems that way if you watch a lot of movies and TV shows, as I...
Fantastic Fest 2017 Review: GERALD'S GAME Is Oscar Worthy
Warning: spoilers ahead. For the record, I never cracked open Stephen King's Gerald's Game because I just couldn't take what the cover --- a pair of handcuffs hanging from a bedpost, its top carved into a crouching, hurting woman ---...
Fantastic Fest 2017: GERALD'S GAME Trailer, Of Handcuffs and the Suddenly Single Woman
When mommy loves daddy, sometimes she lets him handcuff her to a bed in a very private, very remote location, far, far away. But sometimes, daddy goes away, and mommy is left to fend for herself, still handcuffed... Back in...
Review: SAN ANDREAS, Disastrous To A Fault
Look out, earthquakes! Mess with Dwayne Johnson's family and he will punch you in the nose. Completely divorced from reality, San Andreas is a large-scale, family-first action movie that stars Dwayne Johnson and millions, perhaps billions, of pixels, all gathering...
MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS barely registers.
The top three reasons to avoid seeing JIm Carrey's latest film:1. You read the book growing up and don't want to see it updated into a forgettable piece of family fluff. 2. You simply can't deal with the completely illogical plot.3....