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Shock-jock horror makes unwelcome return in ‘The Black Phone’
2/10 The Black Phone is this year’s Malignant, and that is not a compliment. It is a bizarre, incoherent mashup of several other movies and archetypes it admires but can’t come close to imitating. As a macabre circus-freak of a … Continue reading
‘It’ is boring, racist, sexualizes minors and has a 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes
2/10 The titular monster in It comes out of the sewer every 30 years to feed, so remaking the movie — yeah, I know the 1990 version was a “made for TV miniseries,” eat me — makes a ton of … Continue reading
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Tagged #annabelle, #racism, #rotten tomatoes, #warner bros., a truer purer form of creative bankruptsy, Bill Skarsgard, Evil Dead, fetishization of minors, Finn Wolfhard, It, Lights Out, Paranormal activity, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, preteen bukkake, Sinister, Stephen King, Stranger Things, the babadook, The Conjuring, you'll float too
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Sinister lives up to name, down to expectations
Sinister 2 is mostly exactly what you’d expect, and as a case study it may represent people finally getting tired of all these cheap, grainy horror movies. The film sets up several storylines which parallel and converge quite gracefully. In one, the … Continue reading
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Tagged #blumhouse productions, #ciaran foy, #focus features, #gramercy pictures, #sinister 2, Sinister
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The most important movies of 2014
Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sniper, Bennett Miller, Boyhood, Capote, Captain America, Clint Eastwood, Dark Skies, Darren Aronofsky, Evan Goldberg, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Foxcatcher, God's not Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Heaven is for Real, History Channel, Insidious, J. Edgar, James Spader, Jeff Bridges, Let's be Cops, Marvel, Moneyball, Night at the Museum, Noah, Oculus, Oren Peli, Paranormal activity, paranormal activity: the marked ones, Persecuted, Robocop, Selma, Seth Rogen, Sinister, Son of God, Spider-Man, Taylor Swift, The Avengers, The Bible, The Giver, The Identical, The Imitation Game, The Interview, The Lego Movie, The Other Woman, Theory of Everything, Transformers, X-men: Days of Future Past
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