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Stream it, if you really want. Remember all the way back in 2007 when Blumhouse started making noise with “You have to vote on this movie to have it shown in your area” style of distribution? Although the name had been around for several years at that point (Blumhouse’s inception was in 2000), no one…
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Check it out. When I hear there’s a movie that puts a new spin on an old genre I immediately roll my eyes. It’s not that I’m some geezer who hates what the kids are doing these days, but all the “new spin” style of films are usually terrible. Let’s spice things up a little…
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Really doesn’t seem like it is the kind of movie it is. Every once and a while an amazing trailer hits theaters and the movie winds up a humdrum experience. Sometimes a trailer comes out and it’s basically what’s shown. Very rarely does a trailer come out and the movie is basically the trailer, but…
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I liked the beginning. Oh boy, there’s a new Strangers in town. I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I saw the painfully slow, waste of actors and zero-chemistry-with-the-leads box office smash The Strangers: Chapter 1. It did make $48 million on a budget of $8.5 million, and the new trilogy was filmed…
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Stream it. What if your world had been rocked to oblivion? There’s no money, very few jobs and what you knew (or your parents knew) of the past world was illegal to talk about and you damn sure better not have any relics of this era if you want to keep your life. Poor, destitute,…
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Check it out in theaters. It’s not for everyone. I’m not a sports guy and I really don’t care for football. After finishing Him, the latest release from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, it’s quite clear that neither the writers nor the director of the movie are as well. There, I said it. Save all your…
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Stream it. It’s hard to believe The Conjuring series has come to an end. That’s not to say the series as a whole is over, but the main story that kickstarted that devilish $2.5 billion global gross, including the spinoffs and sequels combined, has. Although it’s known when famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren…
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Stream it. A nice adult thriller, but loses it’s footing. Relay is the kind of movie that would have been a Gene Hackman or Dustin Hoffman vehicle in 1975. The air tight writing engulfs dark, mysterious characters that only the writer knows like the back of his hand. Pretty surprising considering screenwriter Justin Piasecki’s last…
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Stream it: Not bad, not good: Somewhere in the middle. It would appear that rashomon style of story telling is making a resurgence. The term was coined (and used) because of the 1950 Akira Kurosawa film of the same name. In the movie, a horrific event takes place and the audience views the event through…
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For the horror and serious film hounds. Check it out ASAP. Right now Hollywood is in a moment where they’re realizing that audiences don’t like $250 million mega blockbuster films that fit every piece together in a forgettable fashion. Those movies will never go away, as they’re guaranteed bank, but right now, the Hollywood elites…
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