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Unhappy Endings and What Comes Next
This post contains spoilers for Evil Dead Rise, but I mean…it’s an Evil Dead movie, you know how this goes.
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The profound beauty & sadness of Steve from Blue's Clues
In 1996, a puppy named Blue needed help from Nickelodeon’s young Nick Jr.’s audience to find things in her house marked with a big blue paw print …
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The first 7 minutes of The Stand (1994) are still pretty much perfect
The following originally appeared on GameRant and the intro wound up being laughably inaccurate, but in my defense, we were meant to be drumming up…
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The Game is a completely different movie now that I've lived a little
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I'm doing Marvel's dirty work and I'm not happy about it.
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Strange New Worlds is a hug from across the galaxy (a Christopher Pike appreciation post)
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The thing that made the Saw franchise popular is also what ruined it
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"Background television" and the crucial service it serves for a modern viewing audience
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Ok, but are you really sure you don't like it? (a horror movie post)
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Twisters is the AC/DC of action films
Unlike a lot of people (my husband included), I have no particular affection for Twister, the 1996 film about a ragtag group of storm chasers trying to…
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Reacher vs Reacher
Can any actor play any role? Well, yes and no.
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"Wild Blue Yonder" did the most important thing Doctor Who can do
Before I get into why “Wild Blue Yonder,” aka part 2 of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special, is so incredibly important, please allow me to present…
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The Game is a completely different movie now that I've lived a little
Every so often, a meme goes around social media, asking people to name movies they’ve seen more than X times, and without fail, I’ll see someone say…
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One of the best shows Max is doing its best to bury: Julia
I know it’s hard to believe now, but HBO used to have a really good streaming service.
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Right place, right time, right actor: The Moonlighting rewatch
Unless you are of a certain age (the age where your back hurts for no good reason at all), you likely don’t know much about Moonlighting, a romantic…
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The thing that made the Saw franchise popular is also what ruined it
I find the Saw franchise to be absolutely fascinating.
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