Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution recaps the end of the anime’s second season and teases the start of season three with a visually stunning film that suffers from structure. “Just save as many people as you can, even if it’s only one.” Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen has experienced a meteoric rise that’s turned its exaggerated action and […]
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“Are all monsters a hoax, or is it possible that the monsters that haunt the 21st century hide in plain sight?” Found footage and mockumentary horror films remain wildly polarizing and they’re subgenres where only the most successful or maligned releases seem to get any attention. For some horror audiences, there’s just too much of […]
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Japanese filmmaker Kenichi Ugana’s extremist satire on the pursuit of perfection will make the audience wince, but left wanting more. “Because you like chairs.” There can be an incredible comfort in watching an expert simply work their magic in their trade. “Competency porn” is a real thing, and there’s something to be said about someone […]
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Nightmares of Nature continues to find the perfect balance between entertainment and education with an engaging look into a South American jungle’s predators and prey. “Nature is full of wonder and beauty, but for the creatures who live in the wild, it’s also full of monsters…” Nightmares of Nature’s first “Cabin in the Woods” season […]
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David Kittredge’s passionate deep dive into The Exorcist II: Heretic pulls back the curtain on the notorious sequel’s troubled production, poor reception, and surprising legacy. “Is this the movie that kills me?” There’s something inherently satisfying about a comeback story or when some fringe cult classic suddenly becomes a colossal hit, even if it takes […]
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Chainsaw Man’s first movie sets new action shonen anime standards with a stunning spectacle of blood, guts, and heartbreak. “I’m going to start falling for this girl…” It’s become the new normal for ongoing anime series to tell some of their biggest stories as cinematic adaptations instead of devoting part of a standard season to […]
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AMC’s “Immortal Universe” gets a little bigger with the Talamasca, a secret society of supernatural movers and shakers who add espionage and intrigue to gothic horror. “The power in our world isn’t blood, or fangs, or magic. It’s information.” An interesting trend has cropped up over the past few years that takes advantage of fandom’s […]
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Black Phone 2 is a scarier and more successful sequel, but its reinvention of the Grabber into a supernatural entity helps him become a modern Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Blumhouse has made not just waves, but full-on tsunamis, when it comes to their impact on the horror genre. Over the past 15 years, Blumhouse […]
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Yûta Shimotsu’s sophomore feature is an enlightening social satire about the dangers of conformity and assimilation, brought to life through a chilling body horror experiment. “Japan is the best! Japan is the best!” There is no shortage of uncomfortable imagery and surreal nightmare fuel in American horror movies. However, the chilling visuals that are born […]
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Mickey Reece creates a one-of-a-kind dream-like descent into danger, death, and delirium that’s as unbelievable as it is unpredictable. “Every heavy thing falls away.” It’s become such a rarity for a movie to genuinely, truly surprise its audience. Cinemagoers can sometimes cynically feel as if they’ve seen everything, only for a film like Mickey Reece’s […]
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The melodramatic adaptation of the Courtney Summers YA novel fails to do anything new with a zombie apocalypse, despite a strong, committed performance by Olivia Holt. “The end of the world is a lonely place.” Film has been exploring zombie stories for close to a century. Zombie stories consistently find an audience and are one […]
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Affection is an existential, claustrophobic examination of the self that’s more than its teases, twists, and turns “I know the difference between what’s real and what’s a dream.” Affection is such a rare, ambitious feat on multiple fronts — storytelling, editing, direction — but it’s a film that would absolutely fall apart without the right […]
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Tinsman Road is a grueling emotional gut punch that explores grief, guilt, and the great unknown, but poor pacing and a lack of conflict leave it lost without a compass. “You wanted to do this.” “Yeah, because I believe.” The found footage genre, when properly embraced, can truly be magical. It has the ability to […]
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Jaws, Late Night with the Devil, and somehow Waterworld receive the “Treehouse of Horror” treatment in a fun, mostly funny Halloween installment One of the more compelling novelties of The Simpsons, a series that is now in its 37th season and rounding the corner on its 800th episode, is how certain elements have inherently changed […]
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Horror movie trailers can become creatively hollow endeavors, but some movies feature teasers that are made up of entirely original footage that does something different! It’s so easy for a movie’s marketing to feel like exactly that — corporate advertising that’s designed to move a product. There is certainly no shortage of trailers that proceed […]
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