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American Horror Story 8.01 Recap: “The Stew Is Stu!”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:00:21 +0000

All the promotion for the eighth season of American Horror Story, dubbed Apocalypse, has promised the show’s most ambitious and craziest storyline yet. Sadly, the only thing notable about the premiere episode is how extraordinarily boring it is. The network ads have also hyped this season as being a big crossover event with the characters...

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‘American Animals’ Review: Sublime Heist Film Is an Intelligent, Entertaining Hybrid

Jason Gorber — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:00:57 +0000

In today’s climate, where calls of “fake news” that were meant to undercut purposely manipulative information are instead simply used as a cudgel against facts one doesn’t like, there’s been a correlative movement to craft intelligent films that hybridize fiction and documentary, toying with recreations and manipulations in order to present a greater truth. With...

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‘American Horror Story’ 7.01 Recap: “Fear Is Currency”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:00:44 +0000

Now in its seventh season, FX’s ‘American Horror Story’ has to work pretty hard to find new ways to shock and disturb its audience. This year’s theme, called ‘Cult’, opens with a pretty ballsy and audacious conceit, and then quickly throws it away to recycle stuff we’ve seen before. Basically, Donald Trump (the real Trump,...

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‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Review: It’s the End of the World As We Know It

Philip Brown — Wed, 25 May 2016 12:00:23 +0000

It’s odd that the ‘X-Men’ series is by far the longest-running film franchise of the 2000s comic book blockbuster boom and yet it’s also somehow an also-ran in the superhero race. Bryan Singer technically kicked off the Marvel movie revolution back in 2000 with the first ‘X-Men’ movie, so the fact that he’s now helming...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.12 Recap: “We Started with Such High Hopes”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:00:29 +0000

The ‘Hotel’ season of ‘American Horror Story’ finally closed its doors last week. Like many seasons of the show, this one started out with great promise but petered out over time. Also like many seasons of the show, the finale went off in a weird direction that doesn’t entirely work. Considering that she was the...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.04 Recap: “We Are the Mount Rushmore of Murder”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:00:27 +0000

As much as I enjoyed the early episodes of ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’, I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop when the series will experience the type of seemingly-inevitable quality decline it has in each of the past few seasons. Sadly, I think that may have happened. I may be rushing to judgment...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.02 Recap: “What a Glorious Stain”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:00:04 +0000

The people making ‘American Horror Story’ this season sure must be confident in it, because this week’s episode (not even the premiere, but the second of the season) ran an extra long hour-and-forty-minutes (including commercials). If it weren’t good, that might be kind of torturous. Amazingly, I think it may actually be the best episode...

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‘The Lazarus Effect’ Review: Can’t Quite Rise from the Grave

Philip Brown — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:00:29 +0000

The ‘Paranormal Activity’ franchise can be blamed for many problems with the current state of the horror genre, but one definite win to come out of that manufactured phenomenon was the creation of Blumhouse Productions. The horror label has been responsible for a quite a few clever low-budget genre flicks (as well as a handful...

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