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MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT Review: Michael Mann's Masterpiece Receives a Much Anticipated 4k Upgrade

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:02:02 -0500

[For now, at least, a lucky, privileged few can catch Manhunter: The Final Cut, StudioCanal’s 4k restoration of filmmaker Michael Mann’s masterpiece, as it tours arthouses, rep houses, and other assorted houses around the country.] Released in the summer of 1986 to critical disapproval and audience disinterest, filmmaker Michael Mann’s Manhunter, the first — and inarguably best — adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling 1981 novel, “Red Dragon," almost immediately saw a turn in its fortunes. VHS renters discovered and gloried in Manhunter’s hallucinatory mix of frequent Mann collaborator Dante Spinotti’s neon-drenched visuals; The Reds and Michel Rubini's moody, synth-flavored soundtrack; and grimly compelling subject matter: The pursuit of Tom Noonan’s terrifying, if still all-too-human, family killer, Francis Dollarhyde, by a desperate FBI and the...

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Locarno 2026: Olivia Wilde on Why Streamers "Bribe" Films Away From Theaters

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: Shooting comedy on 35mm, and refusing to "be less."

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Locarno 2026: James Gray on Why Every Director "Steals Like Crazy"

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: The trap of chasing "fresh" and why AI can't replace human cinema.

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AHSOKA: Season Two Teaser Trailer Promises Jedi Mystery, Clone Wars, Space Battles And More

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:45:30 -0500

You go to sleep at a decent hour so you are ready to tackle the day then Lucasfilm drops the teaser trailer for season two of Ahsoka overnight. It is a heck of a way to wake up in the morning.

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Locarno 2026: Virginie Efira on Her Crooked Path From TV, a 20-Minute Japanese Take in Heels, and Why Acting Begins With Listening

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

After receiving the Leopard Club Award, the Belgian-born star talks comedy, Gena Rowlands, post-#MeToo sets and learning Japanese for Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's All of Sudden.

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THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Review: Willem Dafoe Cuts Imposing Figure as Tyrannical Greek Oligarch

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:02:09 -0500

When Patrikios (Christos Stergioglou), onetime/longtime physician to Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe), an Aristotle Onassis-inspired Greek titan of industry and all-around oligarch, casually suggests the latter’s resemblance behavior-wise to Marlon Brando’s title character in The Godfather, Marcos laughs, instead suggesting the voracious, flesh-eating shark in Jaws as a better comparison to how he lives and comports himself on the private island that doubles as Marcos's personal fiefdom. Both, it turns out, aptly describe the autocratic, imperious Marcos and his plans for his family over an all-expenses-paid weekend celebration. There’s no half-man, half-bull Minotaur or an actual labryinth in The Birthday Party, writer-director Miguel Ángel Jiménez's (Window to the Sea) adaptation of Panos Karnezis’s well-regarded 2007 novel, but there is Marcos: a self-made man, a...

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DARK HOLLOW Official Trailer: Appalachian-set Creature Horror Coming to Theaters And On Demand Next Month

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0500

When a nightmarish monster emerges from the depths of an Appalachian coal mine, a young mother must hunt down the creature to protect her home and save her family.

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BEWARE BOIÚNA Official Trailer: Head Out Into The Jungle, Giant Things Are Going to Try And Eat You

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:30:00 -0500

Deep in the Amazon, a medical mission spirals into a fight for survival when Boiúna, a colossal ancient predator, awakens to reclaim her domain. In the jungle where nature holds absolute power, she decides who lives and who dies.

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KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Official Trailer: 4K Restoration in Theaters October 16

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:45:00 -0500

The 4K restoration and theatrical exhibition of Ken Russell's The Devils is one of the year's biggest events for true cinephiles. Sure, other great things have happened this year but for fans of transformative cinema that was both genre and mind bending few films did it as well as The Devils, and the chance to see it fully restored is a gift to fans of Russell's work. The official trailer has arrived. Viewers warning: this trailer contains flashing lights and rapid visual patterns that may trigger seizures or discomfort for photosensitive individuals. It is also trippy as heck if you are not familiar with The Devils but have the good sense to think that you need to check this out when it...

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THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING Review: Crime and Comedy Collide in Oklahoma

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:07:12 -0500

Matthew McConaughey stars in the new film by Andrew Patterson ('The Vast of Night'), introducing Angelina LookingGlass and featuring Kurt Russell.

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Now Streaming: REACHER Returns

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:17:11 -0500

Alan Ritchson reprises the role of Lee Child's itinerant justice warrior, this time in Philadelphia.

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HELLCAT Review: No Direction Home

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Dakota Gorman and Todd Terry star in writer/director Brock Bodell's thriller.

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BLACK ZOMBIE: Doc Opening in NY and LA in September Before Nationwide Theatrical Release

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:45:00 -0500

In the world of film festival attendance sacrifices are made when looking at the event's schedule. Such a choice was made when it came time to screen Maya Annik Bedward's documentary, Black Zombie, at Fantasia the other week. Our apologies to the director and writer but it was scheduled up against something else that we could not pass up. For every good movie you see there are other equally good ones that you have to pass on. Thankfully, we will not have to wait too long for another chance to see it, as it begins it's theatrical run in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, September 11th. We do not know what that means for us here in Canada but that is at...

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GATOR FACE: In Theaters & On Digital From Epic Pictures and Dread in September

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:00 -0500

Epic Pictures and Dread have announced the theatrical and digital release dates for Padraig Reynolds' Gator Face. The hybrid horror will open in select theaters on September 11th, with a digital release following on September 15th. Proclaiming it a blend of creature horror, slasher thriller and southern folklore Gator Face also boasts the use of live gators and practical visual effects. A small gallery of stills and the trailer will be found below the official announcement. Epic Pictures and Dread, the genre specialty releasing label of Epic, today announced release plans for GATOR FACE, a new creature horror film from writer and director Padraig Reynolds (Rites Of Spring, Open 24 Hours, Dark Light). Shot on location in the Florida swamps and featuring...

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THE WRONG GIRLS Review: Stoner Caper Hits the Laughs and Love

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0500

Frankie (Kristen Stewart) was once a star engineering student at Stanford, until the pressure made her flunk out. Molly (Alia Shawkat) is an amazing and inventive chef whose personality is not suited to the high-pressure stakes of the contemporary restaurant kitchen. And so these two soul mate besties eek out a living in their quaint California home, mostly earning a living between bouts of weed consumption in any and all forms. But maybe they're getting a little too comfortable and complacent, both with supporting each other and keeping each other only in this tiny comfort zone. So when a case of mistaken identity turns to our heroines taking a ridiculous psychedelic new drug that also makes them telepathic, it means some serious danger is coming their way....

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ADORABLE HUMANS: Danish Hans Christian Andersen Horror Anthology to Stream Worldwide at End of the Month

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:45:00 -0500

The Danish horror anthology, Adorbable Humans, a modern-set but darker take on four tales from Hans Christian Andersen, will be available worldwide on a streaming platform near you (We think? We hope!). The four tales are directed by Danish directors Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Juhl and Michael Panduro. We have featured films from Juhl and Panduro on our pages in the past so it is good to write about them again. Adorable Humans will premiere globally on iTunes/AppleTV, Amazon Prime and Google TV as well as local streaming services like Blockbuster, SF Anytime and Rakuten in Scandinavia. We have a small galler of stills and the trailer down below the official announcement. ADORABLE HUMANS Danish Hans Christian Andersen horror set...

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TRAIN TO BUSAN Review: Plunging Into Zombie Chaos

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the zombie thriller, remastered and revived, stars Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, and Kin Su-an.

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THE END OF OAK STREET Review: Suburban Dinosaur Movie Evokes Amblin Sense of Wonder

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:11 -0500

Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor battle dinosaurs in David Robert Mitchell's sci-fi survival movie.

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WOMEN IN BLUE (LAS AZULES) S2 Review: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:00:03 -0500

Barbara Mori, Ximena Sariñana, Natalia Téllez and Amorita Rasgado star as Mexico's first female police officers in the series' sophomore season, debuting on Apple TV.

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Anime Weekly: LOVE UNSEEN BENEATH THE CLEAR NIGHT SKY, Romance and Disability

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Can true love blossom between a blind person and a sighted person?

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TERROR OF THE ANDES (El Ucumar): Argentine Creature Feature Starts Streaming on Bloodstream on August 11th

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:30:00 -0500

Biologists searching the Argentine jungle encounter the legendary Ucumar and fight to survive its deadly wrath.

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FEED Review: Social Media Meets Horror in the Irish Woods

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Marco van Belle's horror thriller stars Grace Collender, Clinton Liberty, and Flynn Gray.

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COUP DE TORCHON Blu-ray Review: Sleepy Policeman, Hidden Malice

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert star in Bertrand Tavernier's startling adaptation of Jim Thompson's pulp noir, now available on a Criterion Collection Blu-ray.

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Sound And Vision: Adam Shankman

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:03 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss Miley Cyrus' When I Look At You, directed by Adam Shankman. Miley Cyrus, the artist behind the music video we are discussing in this particular Sound and Vision, is a drag queen. That is in no way meant as a disparaging remark on either Miley Cyrus or drag queens, even if both the artist and the art form have been lambasted and dragged through the muck (or even scapegoated) in current day America. What I mean by saying Miley Cyrus is a drag queen, is that she embodies the spirit of that art-form, being a stylistic chameleon; celebrating music, fashion and performance in equal...

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HATE THYSELF Trailer: Dark Serial Thriller, And One of Tony Todd's Last Roles, Coming to Digital on September 1st

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:51:03 -0500

While hunting a twisted serial killer targeting young men, a devout detective must confront a massive conspiracy and his own shattering faith before his personal life implodes.

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STARSUCKERS Official Trailer: A Dream Celebrity Getaway Turns Into a Gory Nightmare

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:40:48 -0500

An ordinary couple wins a dream weekend getaway with a glamorous celebrity power couple, only for the vacation to spiral into murder, manipulation, and psychological games as the stars' manicured image completely unravels.

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PARASOMNIA Trailer: Black American Horror Streaming on Shudder September 4th

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:22:21 -0500

The trailer for James Ross' supernatural horror, Parasomnia, came out this week. Their debut feature film will premiere on Shudder on September 4th. You will find the trailer down below. For added context to the filmmaker we have also included their short film, Don't Blink. In 2023 Ross was one of five graduate students to receive a Gotham Award for this horror short film. PARASOMNIA follows Riley, a young woman tormented by night terrors and a past of unresolved tragedy. When her best friend is the latest to go missing, she begins to suspect the demonic figure lurking in her sleep has crossed over into the real world. DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY JAMES ROSS II STARRING JASMINE MATHEWS STEPHEN BARRINGTON AND...

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Now Streaming: ZABRISKIE POINT, Criterion Channel Desert Trips

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Michelangelo Antonioni tries to make sense of the 60s counterculture in its dying days.

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HAUNTED HEIST Clip: "Man. This Ain't no B&B...!" (Exclusive)

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Four estranged friends reunite at a house, where one plans to find a valuable antique by robbing it. However, the haunted house's ghosts force them to overcome differences to survive.

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LATE FAME Review: Bittersweet, Sometimes Painfully Funny Melancholy

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:32:03 -0500

Director Kent Jones' film stars Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, and Edmund Donovan.

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Anime Weekly: GOODBYE LARA, How to Refresh IP

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

She's a little mermaid, but not like those we've seen before.

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CARRY THE DARKNESS: Satanic Panic Themed Horror Coming to Bloodstream on August 14th

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0500

Our friends at The Horror Collective and Bloodstream will release Douglas Forrester's supernatural thriller Carry the Darkness, with a streaming premiere on Friday, August 14th. The thriller will branch out across more platforms into September. A troubled metalhead teen is blamed for the atrocities of a malevolent entity as the ‘Satanic Panic’ sweeps through small-town America in the early 90s. Satanic Panic horror films are always interesting to Gen X'ers because we lived through it - in the 80s. Putting this story into the 90s when 'wierd' was making a comeback after the previous decade, in small town wherever, does make us curious to check it out. Watch the trailer below. Hit any of the links throughout the article to sign up for...

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STAR WARS: VISIONS PRESENTS - THE NINTH JEDI Review: Back to its Samurai Roots, Shaking up The Lore, For The Better

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:01:00 -0500

Lah Kara, the daughter of lightsaber-smith Lah Zhima, is pursued by dark forces while on a dangerous mission to deliver his newly crafted lightsabers to those she deems worthy to have one - masterless, wandering Force-sensitives. When we first meet her she is on a ship with fellow Force-sensitives Homan, Juro and the android, Gramps. The Ninth Jedi takes place way out in the future of the Star Wars timeline—long after the fall of the First Order and the Skywalker saga. The Jedi and Sith have faded into distant history, and the art of forging a lightsaber is completely lost to the galaxy. Because of that, these newly forged lightsabers don't work like the traditional Star Wars weapons. Instead of having locked-in colors,...

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TED LASSO S4 Review: Same Old, Same Old, But Not Quite

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:00:03 -0500

Jason Sudeikis returns as an American in England, only this time coaching an all-female football team.

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MONSTERS OF GOD Review: Reptiles, Zoos, Acrimony, Drugs, Guns, and Money

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Eric Goode's fascinating documentary series digs deeply into the reptile trade, legal and otherwise.

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ATLAS KING: Character Posters For Action Thriller Starring UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping (Exclusive)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500

An ex-fighter comes home to bury his friend and joins forces with his godson to plot a heist targeting a mob boss.

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THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER Interview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on the Adaptation Between Fiction and Reality

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki, and Ryota Miyadate star in Kurosawa's historical drama mystery film.

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Teaser Trailer: THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:59:10 -0500

The History Of Concrete is one of the all time great 'internet rabbit holes' (see also: David Farrier's Tickled) turned into a documentary feature. After dealing with the headache of a leak in the ground floor of his apartment building, John Wilson (HBO's How To With John Wilson) goes on a New York City odyssey to understand the equal parts bland and fascinating history of one of the most ubiquitous man-made substances on earth. Tangents abound: from Hallmark movie minutiae, tequila hawking indie musicians, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race which laps for days and days around a high school in Queens, to on-set visits of Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme on location shoot, and being a guest at Kim Kardashian's award's dinner (sitting opposite Tim Robinson)....

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Locarno 2026 Preview: Hong Sangsoo, Denis Côté, Albert Serra, Ann Oren, Beatrice Gibson, Edgar Pêra Lead Lineup

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:02:10 -0500

The 79th edition of the largest Swiss film gathering is dominated by stories of families under pressure, identities in flux, political and social violence, and characters searching for intimacy or freedom in increasingly unstable worlds.

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HAUNTED HEIST: Tiffany Haddish, Andrew "King Bach" Bachelor, Karlous Miller and Rel Howery Star in Horror Comedy. Available on Digital August 4 and on DVD September 15

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:15:00 -0500

When a reunion trip turns into a robbery, four friendsdiscover the mansion’s owners—ghosts from the 1950s—never left. Trapped by the spirits planning a demonic sacrifice, the friends must battle supernatural terror to survive the night. Tiffany Haddish, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, Karlous Miller, and Rel Howery take the lead in the horror comedy, Haunted Heist. This is Howery's directorial debut and Saban Films/Sony Pictures are releasing it on Digital on August 4th and on DVD September 15th, 2026. Ari Dayan and Brett Gelman also star. Check out the trailer below. ...

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Sound And Vision: John Maclean

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:02 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss a few music videos made by John Maclean. Recently I wrote two Sound and Visions where the director had a weird claim to fame: John Carney was the rare director who himself was a band member of a famed band (The Frames) who he has directed music videos for; and Yoshihiro Nishimura was the sole director in the Sound and Visions who remade one of his music videos as a feature length film. That is, till this Sound and Vision, cause John Maclean combines the two outliers into one person: he is a band member for both The Beta Band and The Aliens, who...

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THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER Review: Historical Murder-Mystery, Full of Modern-Day Questions

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:47:04 -0500

A new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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LIONESS S3 Review: The Roar Comes Home

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:00:10 -0500

Taylor Sheridan's series stars Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Genesis Rodriguez, Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Jonah Wharton, Hannah Love Lanier, Thad Luckinbill, Ian Bohen, Michael Kelly, with Morgan Freeman and Nicole Kidman.

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PINOCCHIO: UNSTRUNG Review: Poohniverse Unfortunately Continues to Live Up to Its Name

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:32:06 -0500

Impressive puppetry and the grace of famous horror faces still aren't enough to save the Twisted Childhood Universe from its own darkness.

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SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Review: MCU's Superhero Shines in Fourth Essential Entry

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Marvel and DC’s declining box-office fortunes provide ample, if indirect, evidence that superhero fatigue is real and here to stay, the not unexpected result of market saturation. But for every rule or sweeping generalization, there’s an exception: On the DC side, it’s Batman or, to a lesser extent, Superman. On the Marvel side, it’s generally not one superhero, but superhero team-ups (the Avengers). Even exceptions have exceptions of their own, though, and in the MCU’s (Marvel Cinematic Universe) case, it’s Spider-Man. Since writer and publisher Stan Lee (Fantastic Four, The X-Men) and artist Steve Ditko (Doctor Strange, The Question) introduced Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy No. 15 (1962), he’s been a perennial favorite, a Silver Age exemplar and trope-setter. Spider-Man was, is, and will...

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Now Streaming: FURIOUS Becomes Steadily More Gripping As It Goes

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Emmy Rossum, Lola Petticrew, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and Scoot McNairy star in the mystery thriller series, created by Elizabeth Meriwether.

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SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER: Watch a Conversation with Severin's David Gregory and Author / Filmmaker Marcus Hearn

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:01 -0500

My first encounter with Jimmy Sangster came long before I ever heard his name. As my father flipped through channels one lazy Saturday afternoon, I suddenly begged him to stop, as some guy I later found was Van Helsing and another guy who I later found out was Count Dracula fought to the death. The moment was courtesy of a local TV station’s midday afternoon movie program, and even though I only caught the end of the film, I have never forgotten that first glimpse into the hallowed halls of Hammer, or the first of many viewings of The Horror of Dracula (1958). Sangster, of course, not only wrote the screenplay for that film, but for Hammer’s previous horror blockbuster, The Curse of...

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I WANT YOUR SEX Review: Close Encounters of the Sexual Kind

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Gregg Araki's new film stars Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman.

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THE ODYSSEY: Playing 3D Chess with an Epic, Gods and Mortals, and the Remorse of Odysseus

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:02:06 -0500

To directly answer a question that matters: is The Odyssey (2026) a good movie? A movie that captivates, that honors Homer's masterfully intricate, time-jumping epic, that you must go see, and that you will want to rewatch? My answer is: yes. [Editor's note: see also Kyle Logan's review for another opinion.] The Odyssey is, alongside the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Old Testament, one of the world's foundational tales. It has everything that makes a story this long, compelling, and timeless: action, impulsiveness, resourcefulness, love, hate, conflict, gods and mortals, life, and the mortality of man. 3D Chess with an Epic The lines of Homer’s Odyssey, recorded some 27 centuries ago, with all their jumps in time, also resemble a complex screenplay. Due...

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