WATCH NOW With less commercially mandated restrictions to the length of most TV episodes thanks to the streaming swell, writers have taken full advantage, going rogue for better or worse. It’s led to seasons that expand and constrict by the episode, less pressure to streamline storylines to the most advertiser-friendly format, allowing for freedom yet […]
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WATCH NOW Nouveau Noir, I get it, but who killed Edgar Williams? This is what his young thorough documentary filmmaker nephew needs to find out. Considering he has been dead for quite a while now, coming up with clues is going to be a challenge. Creepily enough, someone has started leaving flowers on his grave.
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WATCH NOW Sarah, also known as Eleonora Saravalle, is an introverted college student who is navigating life after a breakup. She decides to celebrate her birthday with a friends’ reunion party at her step father’s quite remote cabin located a few hours drive from Los Angeles. Her friend, Connie Caemmerer, has a new boyfriend who
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WATCH NOW Open Graves is a blend of films. Ingredient films include: Jumanji, Final Destination, and When Animals Attack. Other ingredients to be put into the vivacious Eliza Dushku (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Wrong Turn) and some peculiar Spanish pop music. I knew this horror movie was being made some years back, but nothing solid
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WATCH NOW Cinema itself started with the western genre of film from 1903’s The Great Train Robbery. This is often considered the first film that attempted to tell a fictitious story and most scholars agree on this. One other thing Australia is not missing out on are the art of rugged outdoors people and its
WATCH NOW The Mothman Prophecies have been purported to be based on a true story and have led me to do some digging of my own. And yes, the people of Point Pleasant, W.Va., believe there is a moth-like creature with red eyes that can be seen from time to time. Some claim he is
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WATCH NOW At the beginning of this year, I was reached out to by independent filmmaker Michael Jason Allen to scrutinize his second movie, The Coldest Kiss. Like most low-budget productions, the film had its flaws. However, I found areas of scoring and cinematography that were impressive and stunning, and portions of the script, as
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WATCH NOW A boat dumps Jane Doe and her burlap sack into the ocean. Jane musters her strength, swims to the surface, and is taken to the hospital. There, she is truly frightened when she learns that she has amnesia. She cannot recall anything, not even her loved ones, which makes it feel like her
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WATCH NOW A different premise in found footage films is something I get really excited about. Time and time again, we keep seeing young people doing stupid stuff and facing terrible repercussions. They are now influencers trying to garner attention by daring to cross the border between the acceptable and the forbidden. At some point
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WATCH NOW It occasionally slips my mind just how dreadful it can get. I view an appropriate amount of B-horror and it appears that, over time, my floor has plummeted to an unfathomable chasm. Then a movie comes along and hits me all at once like a bucket of ice cold water. Enter Richard Grieco,
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