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28 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 10 Review: Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 10 “We celestials are pretty much the same as you.” It’s the bold series that takes on the demands of producing a musical episode that manages to not only seamlessly blend lyrically into the overall narrative arc but also give fans a peek into another side of the characters and actors. Like it or not, any attempt to blend singing and dancing with an active storyline will be somehow measured against Joss Whedon and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More, with Feeling,” long considered the gold standard of musical episodes. “Bloody…

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03 Mar

Inside the Mortal Kombat Movie’s Bloody Love Letter to Martial Arts

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About 10 hours into a November 2019 flight to Australia and the set of Warner Bros. Mortal Kombat reboot, I started to ask myself whether this was all worth it. I loved the original Mortal Kombat movie about as much as anyone unironically can, but the fact remains that the history of live-action video game film adaptations is paved with disappointment. Even the best movies in that field have earned their reputation largely by exceeding low expectations. After nearly 30 years of failed attempts, it’s hard to even picture what a good live-action video game movie might look like. What…

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25 Feb

High-Rise Invasion Review: Bloody Anime is a Satisfying Character Study

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This review contains no spoilers and is based on all 12 episodes of High-Rise Invasion season 1. “I refuse to die. I won’t lose to a world like this.” There’s nothing quite like a good, heightened mystery, especially if it’s working in tandem with something like the horror genre. Audiences have become increasingly savvy towards and desensitized by even the most extreme examples of each genre, which pushes entertainment to go even further.  This isn’t always the right approach, but it can sometimes be just the right kind of crazy and High-Rise Invasion succeeds in finding that balance. The new…

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14 Feb

Did Slasher Cult Favorite My Bloody Valentine Get the Shaft By Critics?

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Just when you thought slasher movies couldn’t get any lower, My Bloody Valentine dug a mineshaft. A deep pit in the caverns of taste. Date movie? My Bloody Valentine was the antidote to Hallmark cards. The main suitor didn’t wear his heart on his sleeve; he bled it out with every candy in the box. Hence why critics weren’t so sweet on the slasher flick when it first came out in 1981, labeling it excessive and derivative. Nevertheless, the movie has amassed a cult following, and did indeed add subtle innovations to the genre. Is the ‘80s horror offering the…

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14 Jan

Bloody Hell

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When a bank heist goes awry, Rex Coen spends eight years in prison. Upon release, he's now infamous in his hometown of Boise, Idaho. The unwanted attention forces Rex to flee the country, in search of a better life. But he lands in a new hell. Waking up drugged, beaten, and tied up... Rex turns to his personified Conscience, which he conjured up to help him cope with his horrific past. Together, they must race against time to free themselves from a twisted family hiding a dark secret.Rated: RRelease Date: Jan 14, 2021

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08 Oct

Books of Blood Review: A Bloody Bore

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Clive Barker’s horror is immediately recognizable. One of the most influential Gothic voices of the 1980s and ‘90s, his stories on the page and screen mingle body horror with kinky fatalism: pleasure and pain sprinkled with an undercurrent of happy self-annihilation. He wrote and directed the exceptionally perverse Hellraiser, and with his literary Books of Blood collection of horror short stories, he penned the origins for future movie cult classics like Candyman—as well as the less glowing adaptations of The Midnight Meat Train and Rawhide Rex. I’d like to say Brannon Braga’s Hulu adaptation of several of those Books of…

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07 Jul

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

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A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 08, 2020

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01 Nov

Bloody Marie

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Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome sobering event at her neighbors, forces her to take action.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Nov 01, 2019

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