films
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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Feels More at Home Now Than 30 Years Ago
The year is 1994. I head to the theatre, buy a ticket for Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m not ready for what happens next. The year is 2023. I flip over to Max, press play on Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m still not ready for what happens next. A lot has changed in…
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Creator of Crazy Frog Invites You on a Luxury Cruise Across the Solar System
Erik Wernquist is recognised and rightly blamed, for unleashing the animated sensation Crazy Frog to an unsuspecting world in 2009. A frenetic frog zipping through cityscapes has become an iconic visual of that time (how was that 14 years ago!?), but Wernquist’s latest venture is a far cry from his previous whimsical endeavours. In his…
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All the Ways The Iron Giant Could’ve Been Very Different
In the nearly 25 years since the release of Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant, the film’s history has become legend. Though it’s now considered a classic, when it came out the film bombed at the box office largely because the studio releasing it, Warner Bros., didn’t quite know what it had. That narrative has changed…
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The Time-Travel Slasher Film Totally Killer Is Exactly That
Totally Killer, a new Blumhouse film that hit Prime Video over the weekend, blends three of my favourite genres: time travel, horror, and whodunit. It’s about a teenager who travels back in time to stop a masked killer, teaming up with her teenage mom in the process, and it’s every bit as enjoyable as that…