Kind blue eyes. That’s the most striking part of the poster for The Black Phone, the latest Blumhouse horror movie from director Scott Derrickson. Filling the poster is the face of the Grabber, a kidnapper and child murderer who terrorizes a Denver suburb in 1978, covered with speckled gray paint. A mask covers the Grabber’s …
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The MCU needs to recover the level of romance found in The Amazing Spider-Man.
Over on TikTok, I’m counting down all comic book superhero movies, from worst to best. By comic book superhero movies, I’m referring to movies that adapt comic book superheroes. In most cases, I’m only talking about superheroes who debuted in comic books, but I am including characters such as the Shadow, Dick Tracy, and the …
As anyone who’s seen one of the film’s trailers already knows, The Batman promises a unique look at the Dark Knight. For the character’s thirteenth big-screen appearance (not counting cameos), director Matt Reeves offers a mystery grounded in the real world, in which the young Batman (Robert Pattinson) must follow clues to stop the Riddler (Paul Dano) from continuing …
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Blake Collier & Joe George start their exploration of the filmography of Grosse Pointe Blank director George Armitage with his directorial debut, Private Duty Nurses (1971). LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE
It all begins with an idea.
A stern man strides into a great medieval hall, consternation creasing his face. Weary and worried, he closes his eyes and begins to pray. His prayer begins with a question familiar to every Christian, a question that must be asked by anyone who wants to serve God: \”Lord, what must I do?\” But this query—posed …
In the animated Star Trek spinoff, the lower-ranking officers are blessed with the sort of attention usually reserved for the bridge. On the distant planet K’Tuevon Prime, four officers of the United Federation of Planets—the galactic coalition at the center of the Star Trek franchise—stand before an inquisitor called Clar (voiced by Kurtwood Smith). From the shadows …
In some of the most thrilling scenes of Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy, the titular team of super-kids turned neurotic adults faces apocalypse. That shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, the first season of the series, which is based on a comic book by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, did end with the team narrowly escaping the …
The fantastic new website Certified Forgotten specializes in uncovering forgotten horror movies, so I was real excited to write about the weird French movie Maléfique. Check out my review here, and then try to hunt down a copy for yourself!