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The idyllic setting of the American wilderness feels as if it should not lend itself to horror as well as it does, but all that isolation invokes a primal fear viewers can't shake. Nobody wants to be stranded alone without cell service, especially when they're as exposed as the characters in River
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Old houses tend to hide a lot of secrets, but usually those secrets aren't ones that you need to be worried about. In Play House, those secrets exist in a plastic bag full of old VHS tapes, each of which contains a disturbing episode of an unreleased children's show. With elements of Backrooms and
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How much does the place you’re from influence your story, personally? That’s the question at the heart of Splash City. This crime drama comes to us from Lionsgate and Berner. But, on a textual level, Splash City really comes to the viewer straight from San Francisco and Oakland. It’s a
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Sometimes SXSW is the perfect festival for a film to premiere at: The festival is very audience-driven, and those attending know exactly what they're there for. Such is the case for Kirill Sokolov’s action horror comedy They Will Kill You. With elements of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise in
Based on the iconic Alex Cross novels by James Patterson, this gritty crime drama continues to build on the emotional and psychological weight introduced in Season 1. And if you thought the first season hit hard, Season 2 turns the pressure up even more. Aldis Hodge is back as Alex Cross, and
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Gore Verbinski reminds us why he's one of the best who has ever done it with his new anti-AI action/comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. The fact that this film exists on a smaller scale, giving Verbinski room to go full zany weirdo with it, is exactly what it needs. And in a time when Hollywood
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
Who could've guessed that a film about a stinky fisherwoman and a wicker husband would end up being one of the most romantic movies of the year? For all its vulgarity and absurdity, Wicker weaves a surprisingly sincere, shockingly sweet fable of against-all-odds love and a dismantling critique of
Few studios have set such a precedent within their own genre quite like Laika Studios. With each painstakingly crafted story, they consistently find new ways to level up stop motion animation and push the limits of what can be accomplished. Stop motion is already a marvelous feat of patience and
