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Why 'The Substance' and It's Warped Extremities Don't Fully Work.

Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ has had one of the steadiest trajectories for a film in 2024. While it did earn Fargeat Best Screenplay at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, it was not a big hit at the box-office despite being Mubi’s biggest achiever so far. It seemed like despite the overwhelming love for the film remained online but through that, it managed to persevere long enough till awards…

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What Makes 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Stand Out To A Nostalgia-Exhausted Audience?

Hollywood sure is an interesting landscape. We live in a time where just about every franchise has been revived. Just this year, we had a new ‘Ghostbusters’, a sequel to ‘Twisters’, a ‘Mad Max’ spin-off and a new ‘Alien’ prequel and yet, ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ outgrossed them all at the box-office. Why is this green-haired freak the exception for the audience? Is it Tim Burton’s brand fitting…

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Sabrina Carpenter: Short n' Sweet | Album Review & Song Ranking!

Sabrina Carpenter might be nominated for Best New Artist but she is anything but new. She is finally having her moment in the limelight and from the looks of it, it’s not going to be a mere moment. Despite releasing several albums, her breakout album was 2022’s ’emails I can’t send’ which saw Carpenter rebranding herself into this pop princess with a vintage aesthetic. Spawning considerable hits…

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'Sailor Moon Cosmos' Is A Mature and Grandious Finale.

After ten years, the reboot series of Naoko Takeuchi’s beloved manga, ‘Sailor Moon’ has reached it’s highly anticipated conclusion. Despite reigning over the shoujo sub-genre in the nineties, Usagi and her fellow Sailor Guardians have taken to the stars once again to fight evil and defend the cosmos in ‘Sailor Moon Crystal’, a rebooted anime in 2014 that sticks religiously close to the manga…

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'Alien: Romulus' is Fucking Terrifying & Disgusting!

The creature feature isn’t dead yet folks! The Xenomorph has returned to it’s former glory on the big-screen in true horrific fashion thanks to one Fede Álvarez. What started out as a horror film set in space now returns back to it’s roots for a successful reintroduction to the mainstream. Over the past few years, Hollywood has paid very close attention as to how a studio should revive a…

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'It Ends With Us': How NOT To Market A Film (that is mediocre at best).

Sooo…. this was written shortly after I had seen the movie back in August 2024, yes, that is how far behind I am with reviews and it took so long to get out that the controversy had updated itself with wild new revelations meaning this review was written without the knowledge of what Justin Baldoni and his team managed. It is quite literally insane to think how well-fabricated the storm he put on…

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'Trap': M. Night Shyamalan's Concert Thriller Is As Absurd As It Is Entertaining.

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Joshua Bassett: The Golden Years | Album Review & Song Ranking!

After four EPs and five soundtracks, Joshua Bassett has finally released his debut studio album. Exploring the wild LA horizon at the age of seventeen and spending his late teens on his breakout show, the criminally underrated ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’, Bassett has been waiting for this very moment for a while now. The aformentioned output of music has been so constant, it’s…

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'Longlegs' Is As Exhausting As It Is Unsettling.

2024 is slowly shaping up to be quite the exciting year for horror, that being said, one film stood out an incredible lot. Osgood Perkins’ ‘Longlegs’, a film that seemingly came out of nowhere and became a natural hit grossing well over a $100 million at the box-office with a budget of less than 10 million. While most critics seem to love the film, it has a few casual horror fans and critics…

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'Deadpool and Wolverine' and The Friends We Made Along The Way.

A good decision goes a long way in Hollywood. A risk can backfire as easily as it can bless a project. In Ryan Reynolds’ case, it was both a good decision and a risk that the test footage for the original ‘Deadpool’ film “leaked” online. Having that faith in the project and knowing people would respond to it in the way they did can lead one to take such a risk. Of course it wouldn’t be Reynolds…

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Why 'Twisters' Feels Like A Breath Of Fresh Air.

No one would expect it but in the sequel-ridden state of Hollywood, Lee Isaac Chung’s sequel to the massive 1996 disaster film, ‘Twister’ managed to be the one that stood out. Many a time has the death of sacredness been brought up in Hollywood, everything is coming back, for better or worse and most times it’s for worse. While this has made way for many franchises to revive themselves, it…

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'MaXXXine': Ti West and Mia Goth Wrap Up A New Iconic Slasher Trilogy.

The slasher hasn’t seen this much of a resurgence since the late nineties. After Hollywood’s brief but very distinct gritty remake era a mere decade later, the horror genre stayed relatively tame for a while. It took the mid to late 2010s for a true resurgence to take place. Fittingly enough, it was the ‘Halloween’ franchise that revived the slasher back in 2018 with it’s new continuation of the…

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'Kinds of Kindness': I Think I Like It?

Less than a year after the commercial and critical success of the bizarrely unique ‘Poor Things’, Yorgos Lanthimos has returned with mostly the same cast for his follow-up titled ‘Kinds of Kindness’. Acting as a triptych fable, this film splits itself into three different stories all coinciding to create the theme of the film even if they never explicitly overlap. It’s an incredibly kooky film,…

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The 2024 Femininomenon (feat. BRAT & Others)

This past summer has been asking three searing questions. Are you having a BRAT summer? Are you having a Chappell summer? Is it that sweet? I guess so! The perfect storm that is Charli xcx, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan have created a period of pop music that is taking over the world. It quite literally is a Femininomenon. The beautiful thing about these three artists reaching insane levels…

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'A Quiet Place: Day One' Silences the Horror In Moody and Melancholic Prequel.

The original ‘A Quiet Place’ has become one of my go-to movies to recommend to just about anyone. The love I have for this franchise is massive, the first film is one of my favourite horror movies of all time and the second one is one of the best sequels in recent memory. The decision to follow it up with a prequel was admittedly quite baffling, even moreso when John Krasinski was only involved…

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'Inside Out 2': Long-Awaited Pixar Sequel Delivers All The Emotions.

Outside of the deeply questionable greenlighting of ‘Lightyear’, Pixar has had a slew of original movies that really shone a light on their brilliance and creativity. ‘Turning Red’, ‘Onward’ and ‘Luca’ have become new favourites while ‘Soul’ and ‘Elemental’ are nice additions to the Pixar brand. Listening to the outcry for originality with the demand for sequels, the studio looks to finally reach…

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'The Matrix': A Sci-Fi Masterpiece, 25 Years Later.

As far as science fiction can go, no film has ever truly executed it in such a way as ‘The Matrix’ did back in 1999. Warping the definition of reality to such an extent that it made everyone and anyone who watched it question the very existence we lead and the control we have over all of it. To this day, if someone were to entertain the idea that we’re in a simulation, they will reference this…