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After two years to get the edit right, ‘New Mutants’ is a mess
2/10 After two years of post-production, you’d think The New Mutants would at least be organized. In The New Mutants, Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) awakens imprisoned in a facility for adolescent mutants who have killed people with their emerging powers. … Continue reading
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Tagged #20th Century Fox, #anya taylor-joy, #deadpool, #Disney, #game of thrones, #the fault in our stars, #the witch, #X-Men, 13 Reasons Why, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Bryan Singer, Charlie Heaton, coming of age, Halloween costume horror, Henry Zaga, Ian McKellen, Insidious, It, Jon Hamm, Josh Boone, Maisie Williams, Mean Girls, Stranger Things, The Breakfast Club, The Conjuring, The New Mutants
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‘The Grudge’ is exactly the type of movie that gets dumped on the first weekend of January
2/10 I adore Takashi Shimizu’s American Grudge movies from the mid-‘00s for their unforgiving pacing and dense array of strong jump scares, so I was excited to see a reboot coming from writer/director Nicolas Pesce – not because I’d seen … Continue reading
‘La Llorona’ doesn’t stand out, never wanted to
3/10 The Curse of La Llorona doesn’t go far enough. It’s the same tame, predictable movie-product the Paranormal Activity/Insidious/Conjuring super-brand has been churning out for more than 10 years now, this one vaguely Mexican-themed. In 1973 Los Angeles, because everything … Continue reading
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Tagged Insidious, Paranormal activity, The Conjuring, The Curse of La Llorona, The Nun
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‘The Nun’ is 90 minutes of unvarnished nonsense
1/10 Imagine if The Evil Dead 2 took itself seriously. That’s The Nun. The Nun is that bad. “The darkest chapter of The Conjuring Universe” – because aping the language of its sister Insidious series wasn’t enough, they also had to … Continue reading
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Tagged #james wan, Evil Dead 2, Insidious, Taissa Farminga, The Conjuring, The Name of the Rose, The Nun, vera farminga
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