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If the modern raunchy teen comedy is dead, The Re-Education of Molly Singer may not resurrect it. But it does at least remind us that…
Nine years have passed since the last installment of the Expendables franchise — first forged in 2010 as a revved-up reverie to revive or regurgitate…
There is probably something I am mercifully forgetting in the moment of attempting to recall the worst-ever trilogy of mainstream movies. But the most useless…
There’s a moment in Retribution when harried hedge fund manager Matt Turner (Liam Neeson) experiences something of a baptismal rejuvenation. He recalls a flicker of…
Director Josh Greenbaum’s last movie — the wonderful Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar — dropped unceremoniously on premium VOD back in early…
As a horror junkie, I’m heartened to see something like The Last Voyage of the Demeter getting a wide theatrical release. Fifteen years ago, a…
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A title like No One Will Save You harkens back to the terrified-solo-young-woman-versus-home-invader flicks of the 1970s. And while much of the action revolves around…
In a world of cartoonish overacting, over-the-top theatrics and outright silliness, you'd think it would be tough to be too flamboyant. But in the world…
Netflix’s Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America is another harrowing, frustrating documentary that targets the Boy Scouts as another organization…
Professional wrestling is no longer unbroken ground either for documentaries or for cinema. Years after Beyond the Mat lifted the imaginary veil of fact versus…
The explosion of cinematic sex and violence in movies in the 1970s and 1980s led to the emergence of a new film genre — the…
An incomprehensible mess of a film, Perpetrator is a horror story, a treatise on the experiences of female adolescence and a commentary on womanhood in…