The Haunted Castle, an 1897 film by Georges Melies, is a bit of an odd duck, but also another important milestone for the director.
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Snack Shack (2024)
The opening hour of Snack Shack is actually a masterpiece.
Would you believe the first horror movie in the history of cinema is a comedy?
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Am I OK? (2022)
Dakota Johnson has got something.
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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021)
People who spend major portions of their lives online exist in an ever-churning cycle of content and reactions and distortions.
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In a Violent Nature (2024)
It’s a cheeky and intriguing pitch, I’ll give Chris Nash that much
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A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018)
Jane Schoenbrun has become one of the hottest names in lo-fi horror and queer cinema, but before their breakthrough, they were on the indie grind for more than a decade.
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Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
The terms “sad Oscar-bait drama” and “George Miller banger” seem incompatible on the surface; a contradiction in terms.
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Dark Places (2015)
Gillian Flynn’s impact on mainstream fiction and movie thrillers is monumental.
Of all the characters in Gangs of London who could act as the “heart” of the story – the player with the most sympathetic motives and framed in the most sympathetic light – it’s peculiar that Season 2 seems to have settled on Luan. More than Sean, more than Elliot, more than Marian, more even than Saba, at this point he’s the character I’m rooting for hardest to succeed.