Every man thinks he can beat up a bear, or has at least theory-crafted how to do it. I recently made a post about how I would fare in various post-apocalyptic worlds. Well, I liked that idea so much, I decided to do it with me fighting against horror movie villains, and is there a […]
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Evil has many faces. Evil comes with many shapes and sizes. With so many choices for good horror it seems strange to always return to the creepy clown stereotype. Clowns are indeed a creepy bunch, but are they truly that bad? The fear of clowns is called Coulrophobia, yet it affects a very small number
Let’s be honest: the world is going to shit. All those post-apocalypse stories we used to treat as fiction? Starting to feel like prep manuals. It seems like everybody has an idea of how they would fare in such a world, but all that is still speculation. You are in luck because here is a
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What makes a film truly bad, and what makes it genuinely good? We have been trained for decades to think in binaries. Since Siskel and Ebert famously reduced movies to a simple thumbs up or thumbs down, we have been conditioned to judge films as either good or bad. I want to offer a different
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The new War of the Worlds movie has been panned by critics and audiences alike. As of writing this, the movie sits at a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 2.5/10 on IMDb, and a 1/5 on Letterboxd. Even a normal bad movie doesn’t get this level of hate. So why is it different now? What
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Paris, Texas is considered a masterpiece of cinema and one of the all-time greats. It comfortably sits in the canon of great movies with a Rotten Tomato score of 95% and a letterboxed score of 4.2/ 5, it has also been rewarded with the mark of “great film” by legendary film critic Roger Ebert, a
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True crime is one of the most popular genres today, with surveys showing that nearly half of Americans enjoy it. From Netflix juggernauts like Making a Murderer and Tiger King to an endless stream of top-ranking podcasts, true crime has surged into mainstream culture. While the fever may have cooled slightly, it still commands a
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Pop culture references might get a laugh, but they rob movies of originality. From Ready Player One to Free Guy, modern films rely too much on nostalgia instead of craft.
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I’ve seen a lot of war films. Some are exciting. Some are beautifully made. And a very few manage to touch you on an emotional level that stays with you long after the credits roll. War films come in all shapes. Some, like Saving Private Ryan, focus on the chaos of the battlefield. Others, like
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Movies that a better than the book We hear it a lot, don’t we? The book was better than the movie. This sentiment has come up countless times in my life, especially since my dad was a hardcore reader. He wasn’t shy about reminding me, over and over, how much superior the book was to
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