The Last Exorcism Part II and Hollywood’s appetite for deception.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Apparently, one last go-around isn’t enough. At least that’s what this weekend’s debut of The Last Exorcism Part II: The Exorcisming
seems to imply (it wasn’t screened for critics, or actual
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Brew Views
In an alternate universe, or in other hands, the 1990 cult creature feature Tremors
would be damned to infamy as a Syfy original movie. This is, after all,
a film about a bunch of gun-loving redne
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Infuriating, tragic, heartbreaking and incendiary in equal measures, Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom’s Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse
is a documentary that plays out like a horro
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Warning: Steven Soderbergh’s new film may cause anxiety,
frustration, terror, temporary memory loss, episodes of euphoria,
Hitchcockian feelings of nostalgia, numbing, exhilaration, dread and
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Christopher Walken and Al Pacino go slumming in Stand Up Guys.
Movie Reviews & Stories
Europe is considerably kinder to its elder statesmen—at
least where cinema is concerned. Michael Haneke’s dissection of
octogenarian love, Amour, is a lock for the foreign-language Oscar, with
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Movies & Television
Perhaps more surprising than the fact that Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters didn't screen before WW press deadlines is that critic AP Kryza found a fair bit to like. Critic's Grade: B-
In Hollywood, fairy tales have become the new '70s/'80s TV shows, providing an endless well to which executives endlessly return for rehashed ideas. So far, so meh. We've had ...
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Featured Stories
No matter how black the diamond, no matter how radical the
route, most skiers are total uphill pussies who, were it not for the
marvels of technology, wouldn’t even be able to summit a bunny hil
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Brew Views
It’d be weird enough if Don Coscarelli
simply made a film about an elderly Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and JFK
(Ossie Davis, who is decidedly black and not Irish) battling a
resurrected Egyptian mu
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Movies & Television
The children are feral and the aesthetic is creepy, but Mama (which screened after WW press deadlines) probably shouldn't have gotten Guillermo Del Toro's stamp of approval. Critic's Grade: C+
By all accounts, the insanely imaginative Guillermo Del Toro is a very nice, jovial man....
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Movies & TelevisionThe Last Stand might have screened after press deadlines, but Arnold's return was too much for critic AP Kryza to miss. Critic's Grade: B-
The good news: After a 10-year absence, the most legendary action hero's cinematic return is totally an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick, a loud, riotous symphony of bad one-liners, explosions, blood, guns and fast cars. The bad news is th...
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