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Netflixable? Muay Thai vs Zombies — “Ziam”

Nothing to see here, just another country and another culture coping with the Zombie Apocalypse. “Ziam” is basically a test for those of us committed to watching any thriller featuring Muay Thai martial artists facing and dispensing with hordes of … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Korean Catholics have their own way of Exorcising Demons — “The Priests”

Well Go USA is about to unleash the sequel to the Korean exorcism thriller “The Priests,” titled “Dark Nuns,” in North America. So they figured they’d put the original 2015 hit out there for people who want to catch. Not … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “M3GAN 2.0,” an Update Nobody Needed

A tip of the hat to Ivana Sakhno, who gives one of the more convincingly metallic turns as a woman-playing a robot in “M3GAN 2.0,” a killer robot sequel that leans even harder into well-founded AI phobia. She is Maria … Continue reading

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Movie Review: You’ll feel “Sweet Relief” when this inept indie thriller is over

It’s a little known truth of indie film sets that the “indier” the film, the less likely you’ll be able to tell the cast from the crew when visiting the shoot. I came to this conclusion covering such low budget, … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Tour of Jolly Olde Zombieland “28 Years Later”

It begins with children watching the “Teletubbies” on the tube, reaching for a more innocent time. But the TV is just a distraction. Parents have parked their kids in front of it while they cope with the awful news they’ve … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Teen Seeks Answers about the Murderer of his dreams — “Soul Reaper”

It’s not just ghost stories from the Indonesian cinema that make their to the West. But of all the genre thrillers, romances, histories and action pix bought for distribution, financed by Netflix or however they’re exported, it strikes me that … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Bring Her Back” — Horror One Suffers Through rather than Relishes

It’s not a blanket condemnation to say I could not wait for “Bring Her Back,” the excruciating new film from the co-directors of “Talk to Me,” to come to an end. One can recognize its unflinching, grisly details and unsparing … Continue reading

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Netflixable? A Return to “Fear Street” for a dull and forgettable “Prom Night”

Return we now to “Fear Street,” where R.L. Stine set up shop to appeal to older kid readers and which Netflix dove into for not one or two, but a three film series four years ago. The first three films … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “A Hard Place,” aka “The Evil Dead” by the Humorless and Uninspired

The biggest names in the indie horror flick “A Hard Place” are Bai Ling from “The Crow” and Glenn Plummer, who attained screen immortality with his turn in “Showgirls.” So it’s fitting that they get off easy. They’re the recognizable … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Ghost Story that Maybe Gives too much away with its title — “The Ruse”

You’ve got a plot that was clever enough to land veteran character actress Veronica Cartwright (“Sideways,” “Alien,” “The Birds”). Shooting and editing your film, you can’t wait to get to the third act where you can “explain” its cleverness to … Continue reading

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