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“An immoral and reprehensible piece of trash that pulled more tickets on its opening weekend than any other so far in 1984.” That’s how the imminent critic Roger Ebert introduced his and co-host Gene Siskel’s review of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter on their show At the Movies. While Ebert’s right about the film’s […]

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To be sure, Superman has an exciting cast. Not only do we get David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult as Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor, respectively, but we also get inspired choices such as Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner and Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen. But with such a crowded group, one […]

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For more than two decades, the first week of May launched the summer movie season with the latest entry in a beloved franchise. In 2002, we got Spider-Man. In 2012, it was The Avengers, followed by Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame arriving the last week of April in 2018 and 2019. But with the […]

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This article contains spoilers for The Life of Chuck. Early in The Life of Chuck‘s final third section, an idealistic teacher tries to inspire her students with a bit of verse. She stands in front of the unruly class and reads some famous lines from Song of Myself, the epic poem by Walt Whitman: Do […]

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“There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjuring spirits from the past and the future.” So declares the opening narration of Ryan Coogler‘s triumphant blockbuster Sinners. “This gift can bring healing to their communities, but it also attracts evil.” […]

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On a lovely day on a lovely beach on Amity Island, Mayor Larry Vaughn stands in front of the cameras to kick off the Fourth of July festivities. Just days ago, a woman was killed by a shark off the coast of the tourist spot, making many consider avoiding the sandy beaches this year. But […]

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Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond is on a mission. He has no time for games. So when his contact in St. Petersburg fails to complete a secret passphrase, Bond’s suspicions are up. 007 follows the man to a car and as soon as the man lets down his guard, Bond springs into action. Bond steals the […]

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This article contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning. “Good evening, Jim. Your mission, should you choose to accept it is…” Long before Tom Cruise became a Hollywood icon, these words would open many episodes of the television series Mission: Impossible. They were addressed to Jim Phelps, one of the show’s two main protagonists, alongside […]

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The Mission: Impossible franchise is built on intense Tom Cruise stares, convoluted plot twists and reveals, and incredible stunts. It is not, however, built on compelling stories. Most of the Mission movies are about rogue agents and ill-defined MacGuffins, a repetition that would be annoying if anyone cared about the plots. However, lack of plot […]

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Two months ago, Marvel announced the cast for the highly-anticipate Avengers: Doomsday in a, let’s call it “unique,” manner. On social media, the studio streamed video of cast chairs with a particular actor’s name on it. The camera would hold for twelve minutes or so, and then Alan Silvestri’s Avengers theme would play and the […]

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This article contains spoilers for Fear Street: Prom Queen Right before the first kill of Fear Street: Prom Queen, viewers get a montage of sounds and images appropriate to the movie’s 1988 setting. Accompanied by Billy Idol’s “White Wedding,” we see mean girl Tiffany Falconer (Fina Strazza) prepping for prom, cool girl Christy Renault (Ariana […]

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Anyone who has seen the first three movies in the Fear Street series knows that they’re indebted to horror of the past. Fear Street: 1994 borrowed from Scream‘s self-awareness. Fear Street: 1978 had a masked killer stalking a campground, just like Friday the 13th: Part II. The folk horror films from the 1960s and ’70s […]

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The upcoming movie Jurassic World Rebirth knows that we’ve seen it all before. As the seventh entry in a franchise that stretches back more than 30 years, the film makes no apologies for its place in cinema history. Like the first trailer released months ago, the newest Rebirth teaser features plenty of call-backs to the […]

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This article contains full spoilers for every Final Destination movie, INCLUDING Bloodlines. For more than a decade, we thought we’d finally made it. It’s been 14 years since the last Final Destination film, the last time Death started killing off those who escaped its plan in exceedingly gruesome fashion. We thought we were free to […]

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