Shudder’s Irish Folk Horror Doesn’t Break Ground or Terrify, but It Offers Something Far More Important
Motherhood, generational trauma, family, mental illness — these are all the ideas you can often find at the center of an Irish horror movie. In Irish horror, the fear tends to stick close to home, with folklore integrated to create…
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I’d Rather Go Barefoot the Rest of My Life Than Watch This Movie About Talking Shoes Again
A movie like Sneaks feels like an easy target. It's a cheaply animated movie about talking shoes that rips off every single Toy Story movie and somehow has a staggering ensemble cast of celebrities, including Anthony Mackie, Laurence Fishburne, and…
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The Ballad of Wallis Island Review
The Ballad of Wallis Island is a bit like Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Granted, the film doesn’t have any planes, trains, or cars. In fact, the only mode of transportation is a dinky boat that takes characters to and from…
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Ballard Checks In as Harry Checks Out for the Last Time
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for the Bosch: Legacy series finale. This is it. After a decade, Bosch reaches its final destination—and it’s not a place of peace. It’s not tidy. It’s not painless. But it is, as…
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No One’s Walking Away Clean
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Bosch: Legacy Season 3 Episode 9. Bosch: Legacy kicks off its penultimate hour with all the quiet tension of a loaded weapon—and then pulls the trigger. With Zorrillo in custody, a major…
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Viola Davis Struggles To Lead Another Dull, Assembly Line Actioner
Viola Davis, it would seem, always appears ready to surprise; with a career spanning nearly three decades and armed to the hilt with accolades, this uber-talent isn’t shy when it comes to balancing small-scale drama (“The Help,” “Fences,” “Air”) with…
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A Working Man Review | Flickreel
Jason Statham and director David Ayer delivered a surprise hit last year with The Beekeeper. They reteam in A Working Man, which again casts Statham as a seemingly ordinary man with a violent past who comes out of retirement to…
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Wheel of Time Season 3 finale. It's hard to even comprehend that we're here at the end of The Wheel of Time Season 3 already. (Maybe it wouldn't feel so sudden…
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I Respected This Surreal Reflection On Grief & Health More Than I Actually Enjoyed It
Callie Hernandez has enjoyed a very busy two years in front of and behind the camera, with her latest project being Invention. But unlike the similarly lo-fi, character-driven The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick, which I fell…
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Netflix’s New Western Romance Series Is Perfect Escapism
Netflix has made a name for itself with expensive, show-stopper shows like Stranger Things and Squid Game and is racking up awards through dramas such as The Crown and Beef — yet its newest comfort drama, Ransom Canyon, is a…
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Elliot Stabler Is Back and Better Than Ever After His Procedural’s Move to Peacock
After a nearly year-long hiatus, Law & Order: Organized Crime has officially returned, as Season 5 begins a new chapter for the Dick Wolf procedural, now airing exclusively on Peacock. The fifth season of the Christopher Meloni-led show has promised…
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Michael B. Jordan Is Ferocious In Ryan Coogler’s Sensational & Soulful Blaxploitation Horror Thriller
“You keep dancing with the devil; one day he’s gonna follow you home,” a preacher prophetically forewarns to his son in a prologue within filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s sensational horror thriller, “Sinners.” And follow he does, and then some, in what…
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