Tyler Perry’s New Gritty Crime Drama
Tyler Perry’s latest directorial outing, Straw, is a somber, slow-burning psychological crime drama that lands somewhere between gritty realism and heightened melodrama. With Taraji P. Henson anchoring the film in a raw, heartfelt performance, Perry crafts a story that attempts…
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A Disgruntled Ex-Husband Triggers the Next Wave of Voit’s Network
Editor's note: The followung contains spoilers for Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3 Episode 6The old Voit (Zach Gilford) is making a comeback on Criminal Minds: Evolution. This week's episode picked up right where last week left off, with Voit in…
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A Once and Done Show
Cirque Arcanus was a show that we tried to check out four times during our preview week at Epic Universe and every single time we had to leave after technical issue after technical issue plagued the show but when we…
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This Foster Care-Focused Horror Movie Proves We’ve Learned Nothing From Orphan
Over a decade ago, a psychological horror movie called Orphan rattled audiences when it came to theaters. The film — which focused on a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their baby, but comes to find the girl…
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A Spin-Off That Dances to Its Own Deadly Beat
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, directed by Len Wiseman, elegantly pirouettes into the blood-soaked corridors of the John Wick universe with style, precision, and a haunting emotional core. As the fifth installment in the franchise—and the first spin-off…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Monica Barbaro Kill It in a Netflix Spy Comedy That Could Go Even Bigger With Its Action
When FUBAR first dropped in 2023, it signaled a strong return for Arnold Schwarzenegger to his action-comedy background. While he's been excellent in The Terminator franchise, Predator, Total Recall, and a host of action classics, fans also loved him stretching…
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Apple TV+’s Period Drama Is Even Bolder and Bleaker This Time Around
Adaptation in itself is a tricky tightrope to walk. The more shows that are greenlit based on an ongoing series or work, the higher the expectation is for those shows to stick the landing — regardless of whether the source…
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I Wish Samuel L. Jackson’s Show-Stealing Performance Could Have Saved This Generic Western Movie
It's not a surprise that, with a decades-long history, even some of the best Western movies have many similar elements that bleed into one another. While this means some genre tropes are all but expected in these types of films,…
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A Thrilling Return to the Hunt
In Predator: Killer of Killers, directors Dan Trachtenberg and Joshua Wassung take the legendary franchise into uncharted territory with an adult animated anthology film that slices through the ages with a savage, kinetic energy. This latest installment — the sixth…
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This 95% Rotten Tomatoes Rated Dystopian Series Stephen King Called “Jaw-Dropping” Still Hits Harder Than Most Today
If you're making a movie or TV show, you'd better bring your A-game if you want to impress Stephen King. The Master of Horror often tends to be fairly opinionated, especially when it comes to adaptations of his work; he…
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Florida’s Version Of Cocaine Bear Gets The Movie Treatment & It’s Somehow More Uninteresting
Despite everyone from major studios to smaller production companies continuing to make them, good creature features feel like a dime a dozen in the modern cinematic landscape. Even rarer are ones based on a true story, with one of the…
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A Tedious and Painfully Dull Exorcism
David Midell’s The Ritual is a horror film that feels like it’s trying to exorcise any semblance of quality from its own frame. Based on the true story of Father Theophilus Riesinger’s infamous 1928 exorcism case, the film attempts to…
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