Ridley Scott’s Director’s Cut of Napoleon is a Better Joséphine Film
There’s no director whose films are more deserving of a director's cut than Ridley Scott. For many decades now his...
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Smile 2 is a Great Sequel to a Bad Movie
I didn’t like Smile. The 2022 horror film felt like a clone of much better films, a mixture of the...
Why the Extended Director’s Cut is the Worst Version of The Exorcist
Billed as “The Version You’ve Never Seen,” the 2000 extended director’s cut of The Exorcist was actually the first version...
Scars of Dracula is an Underrated Hammer Horror Classic
As Hammer’s series of Dracula films continue, the eponymous villain gets both increasingly easy to kill at the end of...
Five Hopes for Rey’s New Jedi Order Star Wars Movie
At Star Wars Celebration 2023, we were gifted the surprise announcement of Daisy Ridley’s return to Star Wars. Little is...
10 Years of It Follows: The Film That Made Me a Horror Fan
I grew up in a period of bad horror movies. I used to think I didn’t like the genre because...
The Daniel Craig Era of James Bond Never Got The Gunbarrel Right
If there’s an overused word in common parlance I hate it’s ‘iconic’. Apparently everything is iconic these days. But the...
For Better and Worse, The X-Files Movie is Exactly Like the Show
Early on in The X-Files movie, Mulder is seen urinating on an Independence Day poster. It’s Chris Carter delivering a...
Evil Dead and Evil Dead Rise Have Prologue Problems
Evil Dead might be the best horror franchise. No other is as consistently strong. All its contemporaries have huge dips...
Is Dario Argento’s 1993 American Giallo ‘Trauma’ Better Than Its Reputation?
There’s some debate to when Dario Argento’s prime period ends. The beginning is simple: his 1970 directorial debut, The Bird...
