Marshmallows Are for Team Players
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Severance Season 2 Episode 4. Last week's episode of Severance Season 2 was the first to really begin moving the story's central mysteries forward. The premiere was an innie-centric installment that brought…
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Clive Barker’s Best Horror Adaptation Is Still A Lean, Mean, Horny Genre Classic
Well before his work became the basis for a wide range of horror properties, one of Clive Barker's first adaptions for the screen was that of Hellraiser, which he handled himself by being the writer and director of the film.…
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Matty Makes Her Most Dangerous Enemy Yet
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Matlock Episode 10.Matty (Kathy Bates) is getting too comfortable on Matlock, and it's starting to lead to big mistakes. After refusing to continue any investigation of Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) in last…
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An Action Comedy With Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose Shouldn’t Be This Painful
In the build-up to the 2023 Academy Awards, it was incredibly hard to bet against Ke Huy Quan for his comeback performance as the lovable Waymond in the zany multiversal action-comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once. The former child star…
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A Heartbreaking, Close Look at One of the Most Harrowing Crises of Our Era
No Other Land, a Palestinian-Israeli documentary portraying the Israeli government's progressive encroachment on, and destruction of, the homes and lives of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta of the Southern West Bank, should have been a shoo-in for U.S. distribution. Internationally award-winning…
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‘Seeds’ Review: A Tightly Focused Documentary That Speaks to Something Much Bigger
There’s plenty to love about Brittany Shyne’s Seeds, a moving, bucolic look at members of African American families that have for generations tilled the fields of farms they control on lands their ancestors were once forced through slavery to work.…
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‘Speak.’ Review: A Straightforward and Inspiring Doc About Talented Teens
From Oprah Winfrey to Jordan Peele, there has been a long history of great artists, entertainers, policymakers, and more who have participated in Speech & Debate. Odds are, you’re more familiar with the second part of that (at least I…
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I Was Irked By Amy Schumer’s Uncomfortable Netflix Comedy That’s More Icky Than Funny
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a movie begins with a woman expecting a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, she isn't getting one. It was a fate Elle Woods suffered, and now so does Amy Schumer's Lainy in…
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A Predictable Possession Horror Movie Saved by Badass Demon-Fighting Sisters
Possession films, like many other horror subgenres, are filled with the usual tropes that can make the plot, and the characters in it, overly predictable. You can blame this on The Exorcist. William Friedkin's 1973 film was so groundbreaking that…
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‘Luz’ Review: Sandrine Pinna and Isabelle Huppert Reconnect in a Bold but Disjointed Sci-Fi Drama
As VR becomes more commonplace in our lives and communication and contact become more digitized, the longing for true connection is ultimately what still grounds us. Although so many of our lives have become inextricably linked to the digital sphere,…
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‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: Carey Mulligan’s Comedy Musical Is a Delightfully Heartfelt and Windswept Fable
There are only a handful of dramedies in recent years that have been just as endearing as they are timeless. Perhaps the likes of Juno, The Truman Show, and Begin Again may come to mind – flicks that induce just…
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Love Hurts Review | Flickreel
With Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan became an Oscar winner. With Love Hurts, he aims to become a movie star. Quan possesses all the qualities to have a career in the vein of Jackie Chan’s. He’s funny,…
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