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A still from the trailer of The 8-Diagram Pole Fighter, featuring the lead monk standing with a bloodied lip next to his praying companion and a fellow fighter

Carnage and Blood: Two Kung Fu Movies from Opposite Ends of the Genre’s Heyday, Both with Numbers in the Titles

By Orrin Grey • June 2nd, 2022

One is a bloody Saturday morning cartoon that barely bothers to connect its interminable fight scenes with any kind of story, the other an elegiac lament about the inadequacy of heroism in the face of death.

Four portraits of the lead characters from the cover of the 4K version of the film Wild Things

Something Bad Might Happen: Wild Things (1998) on Unrated 4K

By Orrin Grey • May 26th, 2022

Wild Things is a product of its time in so many ways.

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two horses facing off against each other. image from IMDB.

Body Image and Self-Loathing in Centaurworld

By Gingy Gibson • May 23rd, 2022

Or, How Horse Learned to Stop Fearing and Love Her Bod

A still from the trailer for Red Angel, where a spooked and unclothed nurse has a tense conversation with a doctor in a warzone

Hell Couldn’t Be Much Worse: The Grim Anti-War Message of Red Angel (1966)

By Orrin Grey • April 28th, 2022

“If people at home saw me, they’d realize how terrible war was and hate it.”

Vincent Price canoodles in fear with a lab skeleton.

Gimmicks Aside, The Tingler is Fucking Fantastic

By Ciara Moloney • January 21st, 2022

The Tingler is a gimmick movie: not (just) a campy bit of fun, but a genuinely scary, inventive and clever film.

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The Neighbor from Hello Neighbor looking menacing with a shovel

Goodbye and Good Riddance to Hello Neighbor

By Gingy Gibson • January 21st, 2022

A miserable slog through a broken platformer that utterly fails to deliver on any of its promises.

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An illustrataed girl with blue hair and blue eyes.

Speak Lies

By Gingy Gibson • January 14th, 2022

Speak Lies is a story about a probably cursed school and the band of students investigating its mysteries; one of which is you, the player.

The key art for Catsperience, which features the head of a black and white cat wearing a crown and a ruff. Behind the cat is a rich pattern consisting of cat heads, paw prints and leaves as well as a scratch mark in the center. In front of the cat is the title “Catsperience” in a fun, fancy and yellow font.

The Full Catsperience

By Melissa King • November 3rd, 2021

Everybody gets to be a cat in this charming 3D puzzler.

Performers from the David Lynch Dune movie, specifically Sting and Patrick Stewart are visible.

The Sleeper Has Awakened: Watching the David Lynch Dune for the First Time in this, the Second Year of the Plague

By Orrin Grey • October 14th, 2021

So, nearly forty years later, in a world with a very different cinematic landscape, on the cusp of a new, much bigger-budget adaptation, did I come out knowing that I’ve seen Dune?

Goldie Hawn in Overboard, laying on a deck chair in a red swim suit with one foot up in the lap of a man who is doing her toenails.

A Distinctive Experience: Overboard (1987) on Blu-ray in 2021

By Orrin Grey • October 7th, 2021

Overboard must be saved from itself.

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