The TV landscape is filled with science fiction futures aplenty. Battlestar Galactica is a complex exploration of military and political institutions. Andor is a ground-level exhibition of anti-fascist military intrigue. Star Trek exemplifies the values of scientific exploration and follows efforts
Danny and Michael Philippou stunned audiences with their tense supernatural horror tale Talk To Me. It's a frightening exploration of grief and warning against conjuring forces beyond your control. The Philippou brothers have returned with Bring Her Back, a very different exploration of grief's
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Supermassive Games' Until Dawn became an instant horror classic for PlayStation, in part thanks to its adept atmosphere building and an innovative butterfly effect dynamic, where characters live or die based on (what seem like) the most innocuous player choices. It's a dynamic that's inherently
The Last Of Us ends season 1 in a tense place. The long journey of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) hit a major snag when Joel realizes the Fireflies can only investigate Ellie's immunity to the cordyceps virus by digging into her brain, a fatal procedure. Of course, Joel lost his own
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Like a host of legendary Hollywood figures (think James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson, and Martin Scorsese) Alec Gillis got his Hollywood start thanks to the inimitable Roger Corman, whose mountain of cult and genre films launched the brightest stars in New Hollywood. Gillis worked
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A keen audience can almost always identify when a movie isn't centering the story it really wants to tell. Madame Web, for example, is ostensibly about Dakota Johnson's clairvoyant Cassandra Webb's efforts to save three girls destined to be Spider-Women in the future. Here, however, the girls do
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Early belief in unicorns has long stemmed from writings like those of the ancient ‘natural history’ chroniclers Ctesias in the 4th Century BCE or Pliny the Elder in 1st century AD. Belief in the magical beasts, described variably but always with a single horn in the middle of their foreheads,
Dan Berk and Robert Olsen have a history of making nods to body horror hybrid films. Before Novocaine, the pair's last team-up was the sci-fi horror romance Significant Other, taking nods from John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing for its story of an isolated couple beset by an extraterrestrial
Let’s talk Practical Magic 2! I didn’t watch the original film until a couple of years ago, so my nostalgia bar is very low. That said, I’m a huge fan of Sandra Bullock, so I was SHOCKED that this film never crossed my TV screen until the 2024 Halloween season. I truly enjoyed the witchy
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
