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There is a fine line between so dumb it’s funny and just plain dumb. In a previous essay, I argued for Dumb & Dumber (1994) as one of the best written comedies of all time. On the flip side of that brainless coin there is Dumb & Dumber To (2014). Ignoring the horrific 2003 prequel…
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The Lost Boys, released in 1987, was directed by Joel Schumacher and stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Corey Feldman, and Keifer Sutherland. The film follows a mother in the midst of a recent divorce who along with her two teenage boys move to the beautiful beach town of Santa Clara, California. The boys…
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Saw X is the 10th installment in the Saw franchise and is directed by veteran Saw director Kevin Greutert (Saw 6, Saw: The Final Chapter). Saw X follows the earlier days of John Kramer when he still had a bit of hope left. He comes across an experimental cancer treatment that has the potential to…
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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 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, 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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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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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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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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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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