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Child’s Play (2019) Review: Something’s Wrong with Chucky
Next in 2019’s seemingly never-ending parade of reboots, re-imaginings, and revisitations is a refresh of the horror comedy classic Child’s Play. Though this version adds little to Chucky’s mythology and actually removes some of the juicier bits of his legend, it also charmingly refuses to take itself too seriously.
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Child’s Play (2019) Review: Something’s Wrong with Ch
Next in 2019’s seemingly never-ending parade of reboots, re-imaginings, and revisitations is a refresh of the horror comedy classic Child’s Play. Though this version adds little to Chucky’s mythology and actually removes some of t...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 23rd, 2019 – The Elephant
In a year inundated with them, one of Disney’s live-action remakes didn’t quite live up to expectations. Will the movie have a better shelf life on home video? That’s one question raised by this week’s new Blu-ray and Ultra HD rel...
Weekend Roundtable: The Toy That Got Away
As both the Toy Story and Child’s Play franchises return to theaters this weekend (brilliant counter-programming on United Artists’ part), this seems like a good time to look back at our own childhoods. When you were a kid, what w...
One Man’s Trash: Popcorn
Hey, I think this might be a first: a cult film about a film cult.
Now Streaming: I Am Mother
With, for much of its running time, just one human character trapped in an isolated compound with a seemingly-friendly robot whose intentions eventually come into question, the Netflix sci-fi thriller I Am Mother has a lot in comm...
From Silents to the Seventies: Baby the Rain Must Fall
Flesh-and-blood characters, fine writing, and sensitive performances distinguish Baby the Rain Must Fall, a haunting character study from writer Horton Foote and director Robert Mulligan. Though its slow pace, lack of plot, and su...
Toy Story 4 Review: Hardly Kid Stuff Anymore
The most remarkable thing about Toy Story 4 is that it managed to see the light of day in the first place. The series had ended, in quite satisfying fashion, with the third film in 2010. Bringing it back could easily feel like try...
City on a Hill Pilot Recap: “Only the Bad Understand”
Showtime’s new crime drama City on a Hill arrives with an impressive pedigree, good writing, and strong performances. Unfortunately, it follows in the footsteps of a lot of similar TV shows and may struggle to set itself apart.
Fear the Walking Dead 5.03 Recap: “The Wind Blows Us Right
One of the changes that came with last season’s quasi-reboot was to give Fear the Walking Dead a strong Western vibe. The show very nearly makes that literal this week by taking the characters to the Old West… in a manner of speak...
Now Streaming: Too Old to Die Young
I would almost say that his new Amazon streaming series Too Old to Die Young plays like a parody of a bad Nicolas Winding Refn movie, except that the word “parody” might imply something funny about it. There’s nothing in any way e...
Contest: Win Us on Blu-ray!
Let’s be clear here. When I say “win us,” I don’t mean you’re going to win this whole web site or the content on it. However, we do have an extra Blu-ray copy of Jordan Peele’s horror thriller Us, and that seems like something wor...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 16th, 2019 – What About Al
If this week’s biggest Blu-ray and Ultra HD release looks strangely familiar, you may have already caught it when it hit streaming a couple weeks ago. That’s becoming a common trend these days, but fortunately the studios haven’t ...