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If there is one thing to expect from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, it’s the unexpected. From The Vengeance Trilogy, Thirst (2009), Stoker (2013), and The Handmaiden (2016), Park is a master of keeping us on our toes. Even when we have a familiarity with his set up, he has a knack for…

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The Peripheral Review – Psychological Sci-Fi Capitalizes On Twists And Characters

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October 20, 2022November 24, 2022

Based on the book of the same name (by William Gibson – pioneer of the cyberpunk genre), The Peripheral boasts that it’s “from the creators of Westworld,” and there is little that would give audiences a better idea of the style and character interplay. From the perspective of simply the viewing experience, this might as […]

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Wanna-Be Antihero ‘BLACK ADAM’ A Slave to Formula

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October 20, 2022November 24, 2022

Between A Rock and a Hard Place Heroes don’t kill. Or at least that’s what Black Adam tells us, seemingly having forgotten that arguably this same universe’s most famous hero, Batman, himself was beating criminals to a bloody corpse not five years prior. That Black Adam is predicated on the will-he-won’t-he of Dwayne Johnson choosing…

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Desire (1936)

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October 20, 2022November 24, 2022

Car engineer Tom Bradley (Gary Cooper) is a Detroit transplant working at the Bronson 8 plant in Paris. He’s dreamt of visiting Spain ever since...

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Official Trailer: “People We Hate at The Wedding”

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October 19, 2022November 24, 2022

Amazon Studios has released the official trailer for its raunchy comedy “The People We Hate at The Wedding” starring Kristen Bell, Ben Platt and Allison Janney. In the film, dysfunctional American siblings Alice and Paul, along with their ever-optimistic mom, are invited to the British wedding of their estranged wealthy half-sister Eloise. The opportunity is […]