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Founder: Elements of Madness | Past Bylines at CLTure, Pretty Vacant One, FilmFed, & Mountain Xpress | NC Film Critics Association, Southeastern Film Critics Association, & Critics Choice Association member | Rotten Tomatoes approved individual critic
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“Blink Twice” Blu-ray Giveaway
Earlier this year, actor Zoë Kravitz released her feature film directorial debut, the thriller Blink Twice, starring Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and Channing Tatum (This Is the End). If you missed the chance to explore this dramatic… Read More ›
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“Emilia Pérez” dazzles with its operatic style and frustrates with its masked hollowness.
Redemption stories come in a great many forms. Time loops stories utilize the constriction created by a repeated day(s) to force introspection and change, the loop broken in comedies (Groundhog Day), dramas (The Map of Tiny Perfect Things), and horror… Read More ›
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Family dramedy “Removal of the Eye” highlights the difficult of parenting, especially across generations. [NOFF]
It requires a specific dedication and abdication of self to become a guardian of another person. To that end, the truest lesson I’ve learned as a parent is that it’s not for the weak. In the days where a “village”… Read More ›
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“Addams Family Values” dons the brightness of the Camp Chippewa veneers and sharpness of Debbie’s blades in 4K.
As though itself inhuman, cartoonist Charles Addams’s creation, The Addams Family, rises into popularity, disappears, and then rises again. It’s never far from fans’ memories, but the wider general populace occasionally needs a reminder that being macabre doesn’t mean being… Read More ›
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2024 Halloween Horror Recommendations
Halloween’s coming and you may be in the market for something different than the usual typical holiday fare. In that vein, here’s a quick recommendation list of 12 films released over the last few years that you may not have… Read More ›
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Filmmakers Van Tran Nguyen and Alex Derwick bring audiences “The Motherload” of emotionally heartfelt and biting satire. [NOFF]
Sometimes the best way to get an audience to consider something, to battle with the way they perceive or process something, is to give it to them wrapped in something else. In the parlance of the 2024 action rom-com The… Read More ›
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Hanover sucks, but the 4K UHD limited edition steelbook edition of “Thanksgiving” does not.
In 2007, directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino took their regular collaborations further (Tarantino acting in both Desperado (1995) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996); Tarantino writing Dusk, which Rodriguez directed; both directing segments of the 1995 anthology Four Rooms)… Read More ›
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First-time feature filmmaker Robie Flores explores the liminal spaces and mundane moments of life in experimental doc “The In Between.”[NOFF]
“And so he told me his secret formula for happiness. Part one of the two-part plan was that I should just get on with ordinary life, living it day by day, like anyone else. But then came part two of… Read More ›
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“Twisters” on home video reminds audiences why it matters to respect the wind in 4K.
1996’s Jan de Bont action-drama Twister changed a lot of lives. Led by Bill Paxton (True Lies) and Helen Hunt (Cast Away), the film would be responsible for endless quotes when a storm would hit (“Cow.”), when folks are hungry… Read More ›
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“Cheeky!” 4K UHD Giveaway
After releasing several other Tinto Brass restorations, Cult Epics sets their sights on a third, the 2000 sex rom-com Cheeky!. Accompanied by the usual Cult Epics refinements, Cheeky! is coming available with a standard HD edition and a limited edition two-disc 4K… Read More ›
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You know the cameos of “Deadpool & Wolverine,” so go under the hood with the home release edition to learn everything else.
In the history of cinema, there are more stories of the films not made than of the ones made — the stories deemed uninteresting or lacking an audience; the stories deemed unsellable or absent in creativity. Sometimes there’s a happy… Read More ›
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What a twist! You may want to wait on this 4K UHD edition of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense.”
By this point in 2024, there’ve been three M. Night Shyamalan projects released in theaters or on streaming. In August, serial killer thriller Trap starring Josh Hartnett (Oppenheimer; The Faculty) and Shyamalan’s daughter, Saleka Shyamalan, landed in theaters and comes… Read More ›
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“The Beast Within” Blu-ray Giveaway
During Fantasia International Film Festival 2024, Well Go USA premiered Alexander J. Farrell’s The Beast Within, a psychological thriller led by Kit Harington. After a theatrical run and a digital release during the summer, Well Go is set to unveil a… Read More ›
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Set sail with 88 Film’s 4K UHD remaster of the Jackie Chan-created “Project A” Collection.
Stuntman-turned-Actor Jackie Chan has been the lead of some of martial arts cinema’s most beloved films, including Meals on Wheels (1984), Police Story (1985), and Rumble in the Bronx (1995), which don’t even include the films made after his crossover… Read More ›
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10 films I’m curious to screen during New Orleans Film Festival 2024.
For the very first time, EoM is covering the New Orleans Film Festival! With this being our first time, we decided to put together a shortlist of films I’d be interested in seeing that might be good to have on… Read More ›
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Live-action family adventure “Harold and the Purple Crayon” has drawn its way to home video.
Board book, hard cover, or soft — chances are, at some point in your life, you encountered author Crockett Johnson’s children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon. A tale of wonder, the brief adventure features a toddler/little kid-aged boy in… Read More ›
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“Twisters” Digital Code Giveaway
This summer, if you could feel it, you chased it. And chase it you did. Now, director Lee Isaac Chung’s disaster flick Twisters is coming home with a digital-to-own premium edition and physical formats in the month of October. Courtesy… Read More ›
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Explore where the “A Quiet Place” film series begins with the Michael Sarnoski-directed “Day One,” available on home video now.
Originally created by Bryan Woods (65; Heretic) and Scott Beck (65; Heretic), under the vision of actor/writer/director John Krasinski (IF; A Quiet Place), the A Quiet Place film series is a creature feature with a character-driven heart. The first film,… Read More ›
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Investigate Yorgos Lanthimos’s cautionary tale “Kinds of Kindness” in your own living space.
Trigger Warning: Kinds of Kindness is a darkly comic film that features murder, maiming, and sexual assault. Some elements, even handled with thought and care, may be troubling for some audiences. Growing up in the South you learn very quickly… Read More ›
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“Exhuma (파묘)” Blu-ray Giveaway
As with any year, there’s a large selection of horror films, domestic and international, released in U.S. cinemas, but director Jang Jae-Hyun’s horror thriller Exhuma (파묘) made an impression on the audiences, critical and general, who saw it. Now, several… Read More ›