Back in the day, Disney Channel Original Movies (or DCOMs, if you like) were event television for the preteen set. During their heyday, they released one every month or so, and they went out all with spooky adventures during the Halloween season. We got Under Wraps in 1997, a comedy about a horror movie fan […]
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A quarter-century ago, Steven Soderbergh and Terence Stamp collaborated on a memorably disturbing antihero who remains one of the great revenge-film antiheroes.
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Our mini-reviews of “Plastic,” “The Veil,” “Cash Storm,” and more of this week’s less-heralded VOD and streaming offerings.
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Before Robert Eggers, Werner Herzog brought his signature bleak outlook to the vampire movie with his ‘Nosferatu’ remake, released 45 years ago this week.
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In 1949, Walt Disney and his animators wrapped up their package era with a two-short feature that’s still got the capacity to terrify 75 years later.
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Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 classic starts like a prestige drama and slowly but surely creeps into the realm of psychological terror.
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Saoirse Ronan continues to impress in a challenging role as an alcoholic in this hopeful drama.
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Shudder kicks off the spooky season in style with Damian Mc Carthy’s ‘Oddity,’ which joins his first feature ‘Caveat’ on the service.
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Nearly two years after the release of Elizabeth Banks’ campy horror hit, low-budget filmmakers are still pumping out animal drugsploitation.
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The 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s revolutionary ‘Pulp Fiction’ is fast approaching, but let’s give special attention to a less-than revolutionary movie that came out twenty years ago — on home video! — that QT slapped his name on.
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On the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s bonkers biopic, a celebration of the Oscar-winning work of Martin Landau.
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As the Criterion Channel celebrates the 100th birthday of Marcello Mastroianni, we recommend one of his undersung comedies for your streaming pleasure.
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