Maybe it's a just a sign of the Blumhouse-era horror-movie world we find ourselves in, but there's something refreshing about a scare flick that (a) actually
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Despite his reputation, M. Night Shyamalan has never lived and died by the twist. His best films, like Unbreakable or even last year's cheerily nasty wicked-gran
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Near the end of Underworld, the 2003 film that launched the popular (and profitable) horror franchise, Viktor (Bill Nighy), king of the vampires, tries to kill the w
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I want to make something clear: Horror, as a genre, does not necessitate joylessness. Directors who don't discern this tend to produce movies that some critics have
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The real estate in the Los Angeles area is just too valuable to allow vacant and shuttered properties to sit vacant and shuttered for too long. Three locations we
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It's a question the movies ask again and again: How should a person grieve? In Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson's slow-burn pseudo-mystery Claire in Motion, a t
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Belgian crime drama The Ardennes is predictably tense and violent, but its aesthetic pleasures are considerable. Director Robin Pront plays a lot of familiar notes b
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The Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is a sequel, and if you're asking yourself, Of what?? you're not alone. Just add to that the question of: Why?? The original low-bu
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Almost all of the history of American movies flows into Steven Spielberg, and the movies that have come since can't help but be in response. As a storyteller and
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In the '80s and '90s, there were action movies. They starred muscly guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, or martial artists from Jean-Claude Van Da
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There are many good and great movies that feature L.A. as both a setting and a character. This is not that list. These are the films that completely miss the point a
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Charlie Chaplin once stated, The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. Statements like this ??
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