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In the relentless modern Hollywood machine, nothing is safe. Not even Christmas. As it consumes IP after IP and turns them into generic action blockbusters, now it seems even holidays will be consumed and...
Nine years ago, A24 exploded onto the horror film scene with the contemplative and prescient sci-fi horror Ex Machina and hasn’t looked back. While A24 produces and distributes many genres of film, horror has...
A film like Conclave arriving as a wide theatrical release in October is something of a miracle these days. Mid-budget dramas are increasingly rare outside of awards season. And while one can view this...
Listen to them, Flickcharters of the night! What ranking they make! Yes, it’s that day again: the ninth annual Halloween Flickchart Horror Franchise ranking is here. Last year we began a sub-project of working...
Parker Finn‘s Smile wound up a surprise smash horror hit of 2022. Originally destined to be sent straight to streaming, fan response was strong enough in test screenings to convince Paramount to give it...
Piece by Piece is a film where form and story collide together in a fun and fantastical sense. A documentary about famed producer and musician Pharrell Williams would already be an intriguing premise. For...
Whatever one thought of Todd Phillips‘s Joker, it earned its share of acclaim and accolades, and nabbed Joaquin Phoenix a Best Actor Oscar. Whether it bore too close of a resemblance to certain Martin...
When you’re a director with a career as legendary as Francis Ford Coppola‘s, it buys you a lot of latitude to make mistakes. His run of films in the 70s produced four all-time classics...
Beats The Blues Brothers, loses to Holiday
Beats PULSE (2001), loses to THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931)
My Old Ass (2024) 1,398 / 5,584 (75%) Straight out of Sundance into our local theaters is Megan Park’s sophomore directorial effort (she previously did 2021’s The Fallout starring Jenna Ortega), the coming-of-age story...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)