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X-Files

Final Destination: Bloodlines review: the curse of fatal death

Tue, May 20, 2025
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The dorm-room philosophy of the 25-year-old series is still pondering how wild it is that we all die, how fragile our meatbag bodies are. Now with gory dismemberments and squishy impalements in IMAX!

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Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas

Sun, Nov 10, 2024
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Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids!

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loaded question: what are the best standalone episodes in TV shows with big arcs or mythologies?

Mon, Apr 10, 2023
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I have so many examples, but I’ll just mention the X-Files episode “Humbug”…

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Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya

Thu, Feb 20, 2020
10 comments

If you like these sorts of movies, you’ll like this one, a solid SJW drama out to condemn, with plenty of evidence, profit-above-all capitalism that embraces willful negligence and corruption.

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Color Out of Space movie review: pink elephant

Wed, Jan 22, 2020
27 comments

Body-horror SF via Lovecraftian grotesquerie, with a now tedious rampage from Nic Cage. As if a man needs to be influenced by unfathomable aliens to turn to violence. I need more from my pulp fiction.

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The Ritual movie review: into the woods

Thu, Oct 12, 2017
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A horror movie for grownups, dripping with the dread of a fairy tale of yore, primitive and atavistic, drawing on profound human pain and fear.

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Kong: Skull Island movie review: ape-ocalypse now

Mon, Mar 06, 2017
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Boiled down to its bonkers essence, Skull Island is a Vietnam war movie with monsters, a retro analog vibe, and a dash of both Moby-Dick and The X-Files.

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Regression movie review: no thanks for the memories

Tue, Feb 02, 2016
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Amenábar aims for a noirish X-Files vibe, but preposterousness rules this inert trudge that does absolutely no justice to a terrible real-life phenomenon.

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2015 Sundance Film Festival Award-Winning Shorts review: the best of the best

Wed, Jun 10, 2015
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The highlight is the absolutely astonishing “World of Tomorrow,” which crams in more SF ideas than you’ll find in a decade’s worth of summer blockbusters.

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Hangar 10 (aka The Rendlesham UFO Incident) movie review: where has all the sci-fi gone?

Fri, Nov 07, 2014
1 comment

Found footage has come to be an excuse for storytellers to completely bypass drama, character development, and plot in an attempt to be “authentic.”

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