Spoil Sports: Black Adam
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LGBT Movies: My Policeman (2022)
A school teacher and a museum curator fall madly in love with a handsome policeman. Flash forwards tell us that it will end in tears. Why do we revisit stories of queer trauma? The back-alley hook ups. The brutal beatings. … Continue reading LGBT Movies: My Policeman (2022)
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Trailer Reaction Thread
It’s a crazy world where man is ruled over by ants, and this is the third instalment. Here’s the newest trailer, come talk about it! Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, only in theatres February 17, 2023. Continue reading Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Trailer Reaction Thread
Review: Park Chan-wook Reaches New Heights with ‘Decision to Leave’
The Korean auteur trades his signature maximalism for Hitchcockian smolder The latest from master maximalist Park Chan-wook may surprise fans weaned on the explosive violence and graphic sex of The Handmaiden and Oldboy. While those films tapped into the exploitative … Continue reading Review: Park Chan-wook Reaches New Heights with ‘Decision to Leave’
Hallmark Countdown to Christmas: Noel Next Door Recap/Review
It’s finally the most wonderful time of the year! With October comes visions of gingerbread houses, overdecorated fir trees, and Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. And as is tradition, I will watch some of them and tell you what horrors can … Continue reading Hallmark Countdown to Christmas: Noel Next Door Recap/Review
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 24: The Theatrical Experience
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 24: The Theatrical Experience
Favorite Horror Movie / TV Score: The Elite 8
Pour a few out, because one score I thought would make the Final Four, drifts off to oblivion here. The Twilight Zone took an axe, or a mallet, if you prefer the novel, to The Shining, 21 – 12. Plus, … Continue reading Favorite Horror Movie / TV Score: The Elite 8
Black Adam Takes Box Office Dominance
One of the more anticipated releases of the fall season has landed with Black Adam from Warner Bros. and DC. The film came in with a $67 million domestic pickup while overseas it did $73 million in 76 markets as it … Continue reading Black Adam Takes Box Office Dominance
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 23: Possession & Doppelganger Stories
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 23: Possession & Doppelganger Stories
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 22: Eldritch Horror
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 22: Eldritch Horror
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 21: Dark Reimaginings
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 21: Dark Reimaginings
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 20: The Top Horror Icon
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 20: The Top Horror Icon
Favorite Horror Movie / TV Score Sweet 16
The Results are in, and most were the Blow Outs (not nominated) we expected. Halloween and Psycho both decimated The Wicker Man and Ravenous 32 – 4. Alien scared away Sleepy Hollow 24 – 6. One of my personal favorite … Continue reading Favorite Horror Movie / TV Score Sweet 16
WTF ASIA 235: Talentime (2009)
Love. Death. The Show Must Go On. Available in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and perhaps a few other countries. Approximately 120 minutes. It’s test time at the high school. Tan, the proctor, manages to wake up the kid who … Continue reading WTF ASIA 235: Talentime (2009)
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 19: The World Of Witches
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 19: The World Of Witches
Director Profile: Brian De Palma
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Brian De Palma. Highly recommended: Sisters, Phantom … Continue reading Director Profile: Brian De Palma
30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 18: The Trouble With Skeletons
The month of October is all about horror as it well should be and we’re going to revisit that topic with a range of new prompts that have come to life once again – but not like they were before! … Continue reading 30 Day Horror Challenge Lives Day 18: The Trouble With Skeletons
Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/18)
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking for recommendations? Want to share your opinions of movies, both new and classic? This year, Mia … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (10/18)
LGBT Movies: Something for Everyone (1970)
Michael York plays a villainous twink in the black comedy Something for Everyone. He sleeps and murders his way into Angela Lansbury’s aristocratic family. The promising premise is undone by Hugh Wheeler’s flabby screenplay and Hal Prince’s timid direction. It’s … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Something for Everyone (1970)
Late to the Party: 28 Days Later
The 2002 “zombie” movie that revitalised the genre – does it hold up after 20 years? Continue reading Late to the Party: 28 Days Later
Review: Michael Myers Gets Jokerfied in ‘Halloween Ends’
The final film in David Gordon Green’s lopsided trilogy desperately wants to be anything but a Halloween movie Halloween Ends is the middle finger on the monkey’s paw that is success in modern Hollywood. In 2018 David Gordon Green and … Continue reading Review: Michael Myers Gets Jokerfied in ‘Halloween Ends’