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‘All You Need is Blood’ Review: A Fun, Flippant & Bloody Foray into Genre Filmmaking

Genre within art is a funny thing. They are arbitrary bindings that place films in little boxes, more often than not segregating the ideas within on aesthetic merits. Their necessity is up for debate, but sometimes the argument finds itself presented on screen. Director Cooper Roberts’ charming and energetic debut …

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‘Azrael’ Review: A Dialogue-Free Horror That Thrives on Visuals and Samara Weaving’s Magnetic Performance

The A24 studio has become exponentially popular over the last decade, particularly within the horror genre, by offering opportunities to inexperienced filmmakers to venture into the field with original stories that are less accessible to mainstream audiences. But before A24, there was IFC Films and its secondary label, IFC Midnight, …

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Alien: Romulus Review

‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: An Audiovisual Triumph Held Back by Reverence to the Past

In mega-popular franchises like Alien, it’s common to have a primary filmmaker whose role can either be to continue as a director or to shift into a producer role, serving as a sort of supervisor of the original vision of the saga. Ridley Scott is that person, starting in 1979 …

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The Deliverance Movie Review

‘The Deliverance’ Review: From Complex Drama to Unintentional Comedy

About two weeks ago, Netflix released yet another original flick titled The Union. In my review of that film, I mentioned that it exemplified the worst characteristics often associated with the term “Netflix flick,” which carries a rather negative connotation, at least in the online world. This problem isn’t exclusive …

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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: A Scattershot Sequel (Venice)

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice screened out of competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2024. There are few directors in which can truly be accredited with the title of ‘auteur’, but Tim Burton, with his affinity for the macabre, can be called just that. Over a …

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‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Franchise Exhumation

Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien was a tremendous achievement; A low-fi monolith of science-fiction horror that changed the landscape of film as we know it. From Ridley Scott’s lean and elegant direction to HR Giger’s phallic and genitalia-inspired character and set design, one which now feels fused into the very …

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