‘Oddity’ Review: Damian Mc Carthy’s Mannequin Horror is Anything But Wooden | Chicago Critics Film Festival
Films that rely on jump scares are a controversial topic amongst horror fans. Some prefer them over the kinds of mood-based, slow paced “elevated” horror... Read More
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May the Force Be With You: Ranking All 11 Live-Action Star Wars Films
In what feels like a long time ago, in our own galaxy not far, far away, a young boy was walking around his local Blockbuster... Read More
‘Mean Girls’ Retrospective: 20 Years Later and It’s Still Fresh and Oh So Fetch
With its 2004-perfect styles and needle drops (not to mention cultural references), Mark Waters’s Mean Girls should feel like a relic of the George W.... Read More
‘Hacks’ Season 3 Review: HBO’s Best Comedy Series is Fiercer and Funnier Than Ever
While first seasons can feel awkward and sophomore seasons test the consistency of the narrative, a third season of television proves the longevity of a... Read More
‘Boy Kills World’ Review: An Often Hilarious, Weirdly Heartwarming, Violent Dystopia Void of Ideology
Boy Kills World (2024) occurs in an authoritarian dystopian region that the Van Der Koy family rules with an iron fist. The Boy (Bill Skarsgård... Read More
RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap S16E16: The Final Hoedown Throwdown
After a season of sisterhood and shadiness, RuPaul’s Drag Race comes to a close on its sixteenth season of the flagship iteration of the international... Read More
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: Guy Ritchie’s Crowd-Pleasing Pic is a Perfect Match for Henry Cavill’s Charms and Alan Ritchson’s Arms
Rarely has the phrase “based on a true story” been stretched quite as thin as it has in Guy Ritchie’s bloody, bombastic, and wholly entertaining... Read More
‘Abigail’ Review: Pirouette with a Vampire
Abigail, the latest baroque bloodbath from directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (aka Radio Silence), feels familiar. Too familiar, in fact. It’s not just... Read More
Retrospective: Amped Up Jason Statham, Super-Charged Nipple Clamps and the Postmodern American Vulgarity of ‘Crank: High Voltage’ (2009)
Within the first fifteen minutes of Crank: High Voltage, Jason Statham’s Chev Chelios has graphic forcible open heart surgery, violently guns down some dudes, sodomizes... Read More
‘Back to Black’ Review: You Know That This Amy Winehouse Biopic is No Good
It’s hard to forget the first time you hear a voice like Amy Winehouse’s, especially as a teenage girl in the early aughts. It was... Read More
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