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in Op-edOn the November Radar…
Just five days until we can finally get this election over with. Thank goodness. Check your registration. Get out and vote. Then, after checking your registration, and making a plan to vote, be sure to treat yourself to a movie. Between now and what Alex Jones keeps calling “the most important election in all of […] More
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in Op-ed
On the Fall Radar…
As we enter the final four months of 2024, and as we desperately try to find ways to take our minds off of what is surely destined to become the single most exhausting and aggravating year we have ever had to put up with since… well, the last election year, we can take solace in […] More
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in Op-ed
On the Summer Radar…
Summer! Oh god it is getting hotter. So, so much hotter. All over the world. And the best part is, this is the coolest summer of the rest of our lives! Yay, accelerating climate catastrophe! So what can we turn to as we seek refuge in cool, air-conditioned theaters from the blistering heat over the […] More
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in Op-ed
Sunday Scaries: I’m So Excited for ‘The Black Cat: Remus!’
Wow, 1979 has been quite a year so far, hasn’t it? And no, not just because our President got attacked by a swamp rabbit just six weeks ago. It’s been pretty memorable for movies, too. Flaws and all, I’d go to bat for The Deer Hunter as a largely justified pick to be the latest […] More
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in Op-ed
On the Spring Radar…
Happy Spring, readers! Although it feels like Spring came around much sooner this time. I wonder why that cou-oh, right. Well, at least we have the Cannes Film Festival to look forward to next month. As well as the 76th Writers Guild Awards, Society of the Snow very likely sweeping the 11th Platino Awards, and […] More
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in Op-ed
On the Radar… (October Edition)
I’m sorry, Joey, but you forced my hand: I’m gonna have to file a Motion to Vacate. Yes, you successfully passed a bill at the very last minute to keep the site running so we can meet our basic obligations. But when you took on the job of Editor-in-Chief, you specifically promised us that you […] More
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in Op-ed
Sunday Scaries: And I Just Didn’t Throw Enough Christians Into It
“The Exorcist … possessed an entire subgenre, which extended beyond horror and even cinema in general to significant influence on just about every Judeo-Christian religious group in the hemisphere. But … there is no Father Karras to exorcise this cultural demon. No filmmaker since the end of Richard Nixon’s last full year as President has […] More
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in Op-ed
Sunday Scaries: One Small Change That Would Have Fixed the ‘Insidious’ Franchise
Note: Spoilers for Insidious: The Red Door are discussed here. Don’t worry, folks – this is not going to be another rant decrying the drudgery of long-running movie franchises. Mainly because for horror, this has been the norm for a very long time. Before Marvel, before Mark S. Fowler was appointed to lead the FCC, […] More
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in Op-ed
Is Hollywood About to Pull the Death (XIII) Card? Should They?
The 13th of the Major Arcana cards, Death, is easily the single most misunderstood card in all of tarot. There have been so many B-movies that have used it as a shorthand for oh no this character is going to die!!! and tarot card readers usually have to quickly reassure their clients that that is […] More
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in Op-ed
On the Radar… (Summer Edition)
Summertime! A season of record-breaking heat waves, a last-minute attempt to avoid a purely self-inflicted economic catastrophe, and big-budget spectacle movies! I’m actually pretty surprised, in a good way, that movie theaters still exist in the post-pandemic era, and I will show my gratitude for their endurance in the face of a truly existential threat […] More
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in Op-ed
Sunday Scaries: Reflecting On The ‘Cloverfield’ Hype Fifteen Years Later
If you are of a certain age, you definitely remember seeing this for the first time: Even if you remember literally nothing else about the movie Cloverfield itself, released around this time fifteen years ago, you still remember the firestorm of speculation that followed this teaser trailer for what looked like a found footage disaster […] More
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Sunday Scaries: “Evil Never Dies” But It Can Sure Get Musty
Note: Spoilers ahead for Halloween Ends. Boy oh boy Halloween Ends seems to have provoked the intensely polarized reactions that Joey predicted it would. Some fans are furious that this is the swan song for Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode and the iconic embodiment of capital-E Evil Personified Michael Myers: Though others have joined Joey […] More
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