Categoria: Movies

Shelby Oaks: Chris Stuckmann’s Journey from YouTube to NEON

When Shelby Oaks premiered earlier this month at Fantastic Fest, it felt something like a homecoming to Chris Stuckmann. The longtime YouTube movie critic and personality has been coming to the festival for years. And well before he committed to making the jump across the line that divides film reviewers from filmmakers, he always admired […]

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Goodfellas: Ray Liotta’s Iconic Laugh Is A Lot More Than Just a Meme

Goodfellas is an undisputed classic. Since it first released 35 years ago, Martin Scorsese‘s vibrant adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book Wiseguy has earned respect for its bravura filmmaking and its shocking depiction of gangland violence. It has influenced countless filmmakers, including Paul Thomas Anderson, whose most recent work One Battle After Another is receiving […]

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Coyotes’ Justin Long and Kate Bosworth Channel Real-Life Terror into Horror-Comedy

Like so many people living in the greater Southern California area, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth are no strangers to coyotes. The genre power couple, who previously met on 2022’s House of Darkness, often see the furry little guys in their Los Angeles neighborhood—not to mention bobcats, mountain lions, and a surprisingly wide array of […]

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Peacemaker: What That Big Cameo Means for Superman 2

This article contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2. Just as we feared, things have gotten very bad for the 11th Street Kids on Peacemaker season 2. In the sixth episode of Peacemaker’s second season, Chris Smith’s friends follow him into an alternate dimension. When they do, they realize a truth that Chris couldn’t see through […]

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One Battle After Another Ending Explained

This post contains full spoilers for One Battle After Another. At the climax of One Battle After Another, Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) has finally found his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). Before this moment, Bob spent most of the film searching for his only child, trying to keep up with and outrun Sean Penn’s Col. Steve […]

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Vicious Review: Dakota Fanning Discovers Horror in Holiday Box

In the middle of a snow-swept street, which at night seems wholly abandoned to the chill of twilight, sits a solitary box. This wooden black cube, and the even more abject dark secrets contained therein, is the tantalizing hook of Bryan Bertino’s Vicious. It is in this object, we are warned, awaits a mystery that […]

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Bugonia Review: Emma Stone Transforms in Disturbing Sci-Fi Comedy

About 40 years ago, a New York senator and lifelong politician named Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” It was as catchy then as now, with the phrase lingering still in the zeitgeist like a faded bumper stick tagline. Yet if the ongoing collapse of […]

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Superman 2 Might Finally Bring A Long-Awaited DC Villain to the Big Screen

Superman may be still playing in theaters and may have just hit HBO Max, but director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn‘s already looking to the future. Not only has he announced a follow-up titled Man of Tomorrow, but he also took to Instagram to share a picture of a draft of the completed script. […]

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe Plot Threads That Fizzled Out

Part of the novelty of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been the franchise’s ability to throw out new developments and hooks, only to pick up on them again in a sequel, spinoff, or some other project. Whether it’s something as grand as name-dropping the Avengers as a concept or something more subtle, like questioning the […]

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The Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer Promises Star Wars Is Returning to its Roots

There’s only one word to describe the first trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu: fun. We get neon signs reflected in puddles of rain. We get spaceships shooting lasers at one another while racing through clouds. We even get Grogu a.k.a. Baby Yoda dropping a Schwarzenegger-esque one-liner. In short, we get a full embrace of […]

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Primate Review: Killer Chimp Movie Is Bananas

There is a school of thought which states the scariest 43 seconds of Jordan Peele’s Nope belong to the first moments when a chimpanzee has a child cornered. If you’re of that persuasion, then Johannes Roberts’ Primate offers a brutal expansion of that dread to feature length, now with the gory bits painstakingly filled in. […]

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The Essential Paranoid Political Thrillers of the ’90s

In the 1990s, America had no enemies. So we had to make up new ones. Okay, that’s a very simplistic way of looking at the Clinton era, and certainly all manner of suffering existed within and without the country’s borders. But there’s no denying that the U.S. embraced an End of History ethos, the belief […]

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Leonardo DiCaprio Opens Up About His Father’s Influence: ‘I Still Read Scripts with Him’

Paul Thomas Anderson‘s newest barnstormer One Battle After Another bravely dares to ask: what if you had a dad who cared about you? If that sounds glib it’s in fitting with One Battle After Another, which is as funny as it is revolutionary, as silly as it is serious, and at its heart is a […]

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Michael Chiklis on The Senior, Tough Characters, and Fantastic Four’s The Thing

When asked what drew him to the football drama The Senior, veteran actor Michael Chiklis doesn’t mince words with his answer. “Look, all we do as actors is look for great stories,” Chiklis tells Den of Geek. “You know how movies say ‘Based on a true story?’ This isn’t based on a true story, this […]

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One Battle After Another Review: Leonardo DiCaprio Lights Political Fire

There is a school of thought that views the whole of human existence, from the cave dwellers who discovered fire to the skyscraper and smartphone-designers of today, as an expansive cycle of guys trying to impress gals. There’s plenty of reason to be dubious about this broad generalization, not least of all because it removes […]

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Sneakers Remains Robert Redford’s Most Underrated Performance

With news of his death at the age of 89, Robert Redford will be remembered as a beloved actor from the New Hollywood era. While obituaries will be correct in discussing his stunning screen presence, commitment to interesting roles, and contributions to independent cinema, they may overlook a surprising and oft-forgotten fact about Redford: he […]

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Have We Forgotten Batman Is for Kids?

Has the Dark Knight become too dark? If a new report about pop culture trends for the next generation is any indication, the answer might be yes. Another for kids might be, “Who’s Batman again?” As per Variety, a recent scientific poll found that Gen Alpha (children born between 2010 and 2025) surprisingly enjoy going […]

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Mario’s 40th Anniversary Proves Super Mario Galaxy Is the Best Mario Game

Nintendo fans have been more than a little patient in waiting for the company’s announcement regarding Mario’s 40th anniversary. We knew there would be something, most likely a re-release of an old title, and we were correct. Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be upgraded for the Nintendo Switch 2 with 4K […]

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Desperado: How Steve Buscemi Became One of the Greatest Hype Men in Cinema

In 1995 Robert Rodriguez unleashed Desperado onto the movie-going public. A remake/sequel to Rodriguez’s low-budget debut El Mariachi, Desperado stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi, a musician uniquely gifted in the art of destruction who goes on a rampage of revenge after a mysterious drug kingpin kills his girlfriend. Over the course of 105 lean […]

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