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It would probably be easier to just go with the nightmare vibe throughout the new horror movie BACKROOMS and enjoy how unsettling almost every visual is in this frightener from the 20-year-old [...]

Ever since her breakout role in the BBC American TV series ORPHAN BLACK, Tatiana Maslany has excelled at bringing neurosis to the forefront of narrative. She played multiple clones in the show [...]

There are various constants in the STAR WARS universe that vary little from project to project. All of the films, books, and streaming series are world-building. The production values are always [...]

Screenplays have storytelling beats that almost every film follows slavishly. An inciting incident happens in the first 10 minutes to get the plot rolling. At the half-hour mark, the hero’s goal [...]

One of the better trends in the film business these days is not only the explosion of filmmakers trying their hand at short films, but the fact that the public has access to such shorts like [...]

I love it when a sophomore season betters the first since it’s very difficult to do. And as terrific as the first American dramedy series BEEF was, the Netflix series created by Lee Sung Jin has [...]

The cult hit READY OR NOT from 2019 was a horror comedy that not only had fun riffing on the tropes of the genre, but it managed to satirize Agatha Christie, love stories, and devil worship, all [...]

There’s a great movie within the just-opened PROJECT HAIL MARY. Unfortunately, it’s sharing screen time with a sophomoric buddy comedy between Ryan Gosling’s glib scientist and a space alien. The [...]

An art teacher once told me that you can only blend so many colors before getting mud. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal has blended a lot of colors in THE BRIDE!, her revisionist take on Mary [...]

It’s a privilege to be able to see the Oscar-nominated shorts and thanks to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences for making them available to the masses through theatrical release [...]