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20 Movies So Bad, They’re Actually Really Good
For the most part, I don’t buy the premise that movies can be so bad, they’re actually good. If a movie’s good, isn’t it just…good? There’s no question, however, that movies can succeed by failing. Ed Wood is an extreme-but-perfect example of a filmmaker who never achieved precisely what he set out to do with…
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18 of the Best Streaming-Only Movies That Skipped the Theatres
Let’s talk classic direct-to-video movies for a moment. American Psycho II: All American Girl (with Mila Kunis and Williams Shatner); Dollman vs. Demonic Toys; Bratz: Starrin’ & Stylin’; Hellraiser 5-10; Amityville 5-19(!), The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It; Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation — they’ve not necessarily been all…
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33 Movie Sequels That Exemplify the Best and Worst of Nostalgia
The first trailer for the long-in-coming fourth Matrix film dropped last week, and it’s looking good — but were I trying to explain the premise of The Matrix Resurrections based only on that new footage, I’d probably wind up more or less describing The Matrix (the 1999 original, that is). Is this thing really a continuation…
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18 Black-led Horror Movies as Terrifying as ‘Candyman’
Nostalgia for the ‘90s is big right now, so it’s probably not a huge surprise Candyman is coming back. The love-lorn killer with the haunting bass voice and hook hand never had quite the box office cred of a Freddy, Jason, or Michael Myers, but Tony Todd’s performance — and his signature vocal rasp —…