What is the line between body mutilation that entertains or provokes me vs. disgusts me?
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Novocaine (2025)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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Wish (2023)
A couple of months ago, I visited Disney World in Orlando.
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Fountain of Youth (2025)
There’s a fine line between “soul-crushing slop” and “modestly enjoyable slop.”
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
There’s a scene at the center of A Complete Unknown good enough to justify the film’s entire existence.
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to.”
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Summer of 69 (2025)
The kids who grew up watching Disney Channel sitcoms are now old enough to be directing R-rated comedies.
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Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination doesn’t wear the iconography of a slasher.
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The Great White Silence (1924)
The doomed Terra Nova expedition for the South Pole in 1912 ranks behind only one other event, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, in the public imagination of early 20th century English tragedies.
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An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
There are few movies in this universe I cherish more than A Goofy Movie, so it would be easy to see how I could come into An Extremely Goofy Movie on one of two poles
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The Gorge (2025)
Today, I come to discuss a film that features two heartsick loners stuck on opposite ends of a chasm.