• Day Shift (2022) – Review

    Day Shift, originally released to Netflix in August of 2022, follows Jamie Foxx as a down on his luck father and blue collar tradesman who moonlights as vampire hunter. First time director J.J. Perry takes the helm with a script from first time writer Tyler Tice and co-scribe of Netflix’s Army of the Dead: Shay

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  • The Exorcist: Believer (2023) – Review

    The Exorcist: Believer was released by Blumhouse on October 6th and is the 6th film in The Exorcist franchise. After the new Halloween trilogy that began in 2018, This is director David Gordon Green’s second swing at reviving a beloved horror franchise. The film was originally slated to be released on October 13th, but was

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  • Mirrors (2008) – Review

    Mirrors, a 2008 horror thriller from director Alexandre Aja, stars Keifer Sutherland as Ben Carson, a former New York City detective who is recovering from his struggles with alcoholism after his involvement in a recent shooting. To help himself stay focused on recovery, Ben takes a job as a night watchman at an abandoned department

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – Review

    Released to theaters on October 19th, Martin Scorcese’s Killers of the Flower Moon follows members of the Osage Native American tribe as they die off under mysterious circumstances in 1920’s Oklahoma. After 2016’s Silence and 2019’s The Irishman, I was a bit hesitant to step into Scorcese’s new film. Both Silence and The Irishman were

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  • Classic Hollywood Magazines – Analysis and Comparison

    Far before television and the internet existed as the film buff’s main source of media/film news, there existed a far more primitive but personal avenue for staying up to date with the day to day happenings of the Hollywood scene. Although it seems that the paper magazine is moving closer and closer toward extinction, it

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  • Slap Shot (1977) – The State of Censorship

    Do you ever have those moments when you hear a few funny quotes being circulated around town but you don’t realize they’re from a popular movie? I’ve had that happen. In fact, I just recently realized it had been happening to me for a solid 20+ years. Living in Minnesota, which is sometimes nicknamed “The

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  • Something Wild (1986) – The Yuppie Horror Film

    Yuppie Horror – Horror films that often focus on middle or upper-class families and/or individuals being plagued by an outside threat. These horrors usually reflect real-life anxieties relating to social class.  Well, bourgeois suburban life causes many to become repressed, postponing gratification and the learning of self-control. This repression causes many to accept predetermined roles/jobs

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  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968) – William Greaves: The Man and his Magnum Opus

    When many audiences think about the power of film, they often think about it in terms of how viscerally entertaining or visually exciting the movie is. In other words, they just want to escape from reality and not be forced to think about anything that challenges their current sensibilities in any way. However, there are

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