Preview If your idea of a thrilling Friday night involves watching paint peel off walls while five sweaty handymen whine about their feelings, then clear your schedule. Brad Anderson’s 2001…
Want to ruin your whole weekend in under two hours? Ben Dover reviews Requiem for a Dream! If you enjoy sitting in a dark room while a giant TV screams…
Two hours of teenagers getting blisters. It is the best thing I have seen all year. Lionsgate’s adaptation of a story Stephen King wrote decades ago under a different name.…
Raimi Returns to Roots with Tropical Terror as Rachel McAdams goes from Regina George to Bear Grylls, and it is a glorious, bloody mess. Acclaimed horror maestro Sam Raimi makes…
In a near‑future where vampires are the dominant species, humans are farmed for blood and those deprived of it mutate into feral “subsiders.” Edward, (Ethan Hawke) a vampire scientist who…
Remember that wholesome story about the alien baby who crashed on Earth and grew up to be a shining beacon of hope? Well, forget it. That’s for simpletons. This is…
Teen Slackers Learn a Lesson in Homicidal Hilarity in Idle Hands This weekend, prepare for a cinematic experience that proves the old adage: the Devil really does make work for…
Another Day, Another Dimension This week, we’re dragged back into the mind-bending, rule-breaking world of time travel with The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations. No, it’s not a good sign when…
This week, Hollywood serves up another “eat-the-rich” horror-comedy—because we haven’t seen enough of those lately—with Death of a Unicorn. It’s a tale as old as time: a working stiff trying…
In a world that seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, animator Phil Tippett, a man who clearly has too much time on his hands and a very…
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