films
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Barbie Is Officially the U.S. Box-Office Champ of 2023
It’s a Barbie world—and you, me, and Luigi are just living in it. Greta Gerwig’s subversive comedy starring Margot Robbie as a toy that breaks free from her plastic world was already a $US1 billion hit, and already Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing movie of all time domestically after passing The Dark Knight. Now, it’s grabbed the…
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It Lives Inside Summons the Haunting Demons of Heritage Folklore
It’s time to start believing in the lore your family passes down—it might just give you a chance to survive the demons of myth when they rear their heads. In the latest look at director Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside, a teen girl learns just that. From the producers of Get Out, Dutta’s feature debut…
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Barbie vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is a Perfect 2023 Hollywood Microcosm
When all is said and done, the biggest movies of 2023 are going to be based on a 60-year-old doll and a 40-year-old video game. Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have each, in their own unique ways, shown the best of what modern studio filmmaking can be. In an era when name brands…
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Fried Barry’s Director Is Remaking Street Trash, One of the Best Worst Movies Ever
If you’ve ever stumbled upon Shudder Original Fried Barry—the tale of a sleazy drug addict who gets possessed by an alien and heads out for a debauched rampage around Cape Town—you might not be surprised to hear its director, Ryan Kruger, is planning a remake of Street Trash. And if you’re a fan of that grimy 1987 cult…