Who expected the tenth installment of Hulu and Blumhouse’s series of holiday-themed horror films to be the best one? A lot of people I know gave up on “Into the Dark” a few months ago, right around the multi-month run of...
As exciting brass fills your ears, a man strolls purposefully onto the screen from stage left, his striding body framed by a circle. He turns to face the audience, aims his weapon at you, and unleashes all his fury, the deep crimson blood engulfing...
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Much like “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” was a perfectly enjoyable if inferior follow-up to the genre-defining, zany ‘80s comedy “Vacation,” “Spider-Man: Far From Home” changes the scenery but...
Do you remember being left home alone as a kid? When your parents felt you were old enough to handle an evening by yourself without the need of a babysitter? I do. There was nothing to it, really. Put in a Stoffer’s TV dinner, throw in a VHS...
They’re back! The put-upon residents of Hawkins, Indiana have returned to Netflix after a year-and-a-half off the pop culture scene, and I have to admit to wondering what other tricks the Duffer brothers had up their sleeves, and if people...
One thing is certain: writer/director Ari Aster comprehends stifling dread in the most profound sense. Via a grief-soaked story of ancestral vulnerability (you can’t pick your relatives, can you?), his terrifying and startlingly confident...
It would have been fun to talk about how Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" movies are a beautifully artificial fantasy, a tinkerer's homemade storybook, a larger-than-life tribute to silent cinema and a return to the obsessive world in which Jackson can't...
“When we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and casual violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the meek and the disenfranchised and the...