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Freelance film journalist. Columnist at Bloody Disgusting. Bylines at Elements of Madness, Daily Dead, Scream Horror Magazine, and more. Follow me on twitter amd bluesky @RedheadfromMars.
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Intimate documentary “Everybody Dance” beautifully showcases life-changing program for disabled dancers.
People who live with disabilities are often made to feel invisible. In fact, society in general considers people with disabilities to be disposable, many times not wanting to even be reminded of their existence, when all people who live with… Read More ›
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“Amadeus” still rocks at 40: Warner Bros. debuts exhilarating 4K restoration of the theatrical cut.
The ‘80s were a decade of decadence. Whimsical fashion, music, and media reigned pop culture. This was especially true with the films of the era. The year 1984 saw Warner Bros. release both Purple Rain, a semi-biographical concert film starring… Read More ›
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Pedro Almodóvar’s first English language film, “The Room Next Door,” is an ode to a life lived and what comes next.
As painful as it can be for everyone involved, death is inevitable. You might be able to delay its arrival, but ultimately, death comes for all of us, and we will all leave someone behind to grieve our passing. Grieving… Read More ›
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Hunter Schafer is extraordinary in surreal body horror “Cuckoo,” a fierce commentary on bodily autonomy on home video now.
Body horror is a fascinating subgenre and one that tends to make a lot of people particularly squeamish. With films like The Fly (1986), about a scientist who becomes a human fly hybrid, and Crimes of the Future (2022), where… Read More ›
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David Lynch’s cult classic “Blue Velvet” is now available in stunning 4K digital restoration from the Criterion Collection.
Often in film criticism, the words “cult classic” are overused — unless you’re talking about a filmmaker with a filmography as iconic as David Lynch. Most people probably also associate Lynch with Twin Peaks, cherry pie, and a damn fine… Read More ›
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Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater revive the ‘80s in wonderfully cozy directorial debut “Downtown Owl.”
Long ago, in a time before the internet and social media, there was a world that Gen X remembers well — the ‘80s had Reagan, the AIDS epidemic, big shoulder pads, bigger hair, bold makeup, and colorful, poppy music videos… Read More ›
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Documentary “Runaway Radio” chronicles the evolution of groundbreaking Houston radio station KLOL.
It’s been a little over a hundred years since the first commercial radio broadcast when Pittsburgh’s KDKA broadcast the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election in 1920. In 1938, Orson Welles directed and narrated an adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel… Read More ›