Welcome to Part 2 of my choices for the 100 Greatest Horror films! A word or two about the numbers before we begin: they’re mostly arbitrary. Ranking 100 films and definitively saying that number 65 is better than number 66 and so on and so forth is basically impossible. The numbers aren’t really going...
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House of Cards returned for a fourth season over the weekend and this is far less an event than it used to be. When the show first premiered in 2012, it was touted as Netflix’s first foray into original programming—despite Lilyhammer dropping on the streaming service a few months earlier with a thud—so its...
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I’ve made it no secret on this site that horror is my home genre. I’ve been a fan of horror films since before I could walk. Not really sure why. When people ask me why I like the genre so much, I’m hard pressed to come up with a solid answer. This is partly...
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Stephen King fans all over the world raised their arms in celebration this week as it was finally announced that the long awaited adaptation of his magnum opus, The Dark Tower, was going into production with Idris Elba officially cast as the stoic hero Roland and Matthew McConaughey as the evil Man in Black....
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On the eve of The People Vs. O.J. Simpson’s premiere I wrote that I wanted the show to either be the most gloriously trashy thing to ever hit TV screens or the best drama of all time. Anything in between would be unacceptable. So which was it? Well, neither actually. The show does have trash elements–we’ll get...
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Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Like many people, I had my doubts about Better Call Saul before it premiered last year. I wondered how this one joke character could carry his own series. I worried about the tone; would it be too much of a goof or would it try too hard to capture the tension...
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On March 18th, Marvel will once again attempt to bring the much beloved and controversial antihero, Frank Castle to the screen, albeit the small one. Jon Bernthal will be the 4th actor taking on the role, following in the footsteps of Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane, and Ray Stevenson. All three are good actors (well...
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It doesn’t take long for The Witch to make a lasting impression. We meet the title character very early on. She’s hidden in shadows, obscured by branches, and in the midst of doing something unspeakable. Her actions are further obscured by the awful sounds made by her walking stick and her rapid, shallow breathing. Writer-director Robert...
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Now that 2015 is over, it’s time to look back on the films that had the most profound effect on me. Of all the lists I write, this is always my favorite one (hence the length). As fun as it is to trash something, it’s far more fun to praise something. And I hope...
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Continuing my annual year end barrage of LISTS, I hereby present the most disappointing films of 2015. These are not the movies that are merely bad. Not the Paranormal Activities, the Green Infernos, the Adam Sandler films, or the Ride Alongs. Those films are easy targets. These are the films that should have been great but were instead massive...
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