AfrAId (2024)Director: Chris WeitzScreenwriters: Chris WeitzStarring: John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian, Keith Carradine In late 2022, Blumhouse, a studio known for making one good and successful movie every so often which then in turn funds ten abominations, released M3GAN, a sci-fi thriller about a robotic doll that gains sentience […]
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Night Swim (2024)Director: Bryce McGuireScreenwriters: Bryce McGuire, Rod BlackhurstStarring: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Heoferle, Gavin Warren The Shining. A story about a family moving to a new location. Sinister things are afoot, hauntings of those long since dead, and the youngest can see it but the older ones don’t seem to acknowledge it. Then
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023)Director: David Gordon GreenScreenwriters: Peter Satler, David Gordon GreenStarring: Leslie Odom Jr, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum, Ellen Burstyn “If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children?” So is spoken in the prologue to Henry James’
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Firestarter (2022) Director: Keith Thomas Screenwriter: Scott Teems Starring: Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes, Gloria Reuben, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley Stephen King remakes seem to be burning quite nicely in the cinematic hearth at the moment. So are remakes/re-adaptations/requels/sequels/cash-ins-on-existing-properties by Blumhouse. Some of these are decent. This travesty of a ninety-minute
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Ma (2019) Director: Tate Taylor Screenwriters: Tate Taylor, Scotty Landes Starring: Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis Ma isn’t much different from a film like The Roommate or The Stepfather. It’s about a seemingly ordinary person who is actually a violent murderer, with a teenage(ish) protagonist who is wary of the murderer’s apparent normality. The