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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein feels like the gothic horror movie he’s always wanted to make, and it wants to make it absolutely clear which one is the monster
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Two tangentially-related tunes to show that break-up songs are better with drums
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This horror movie about a missing YouTuber from Ohio is the debut feature from a non-missing YouTuber from Ohio
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How “news” of a potential movie about Ben Solo made me rethink all of my assumptions about Star Wars
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Two spooky tunes from The Pogues about ghosts
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Or, Mama mia! That’s-a spooky Meatballs (1979)!
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This found footage horror movie about a Halloween haunt gone wrong is limited by its liabilities of a shoestring budget and even less imagination. (Spoilers after a warning)
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Freaky is a teen slasher movie horror comedy that just plain works.
One Thing I Like
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One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.
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Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington
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The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer
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Two tangentially-related tunes to show that break-up songs are better with drums
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Two spooky tunes from The Pogues about ghosts
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Two tangentially-related tunes arguing about the virtues of being blissfully ignorant
Books
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My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting
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Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house
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Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY