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It’s the final month of 2020, and we’re not much closer than we were all year to getting back to the status quo of…

You will not be missed, 2020. The past year will certainly go down as one of the most generally shitty in memory,…

Long stretches of the new Pixar movie, Soul, are set in a serene nirvana called The Great Before. With its soft,…

It seems that the Academy Awards are still happening next year, just a little later than usual. What that means is…

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the show not the movie, makes two appearances in Josh Boone’s long-delayed superhero…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Climb on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…

Those determined to see a new movie on the big screen this month may have a few options, as a Blumhouse horror…

William Hughes: It was apparent early on that Halloween 2020 was going to be a weird one; as hopes of a solution to…

Werewolves had a moment in 1981. Excluding Wolfen, whose killer canines technically don’t fit the species…

Note: The writer of this review watched Come Play from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see…

Horror anthologies, including ones with a supernatural bent, are nearly as old as TV itself. In their latest form,…

No candles were lit. No cake was eaten. But back in April, A Nightmare On Elm Street turned 10. No, not that Nightmar…

As anyone alive right now can attest, real life is often as terrifying as any movie. Leatherface is scary, sure,…

Halloween is imminent, and if you’re anything like us, you’re getting in the holiday spirit with some of your…

There’s one scene in the 1990 Warner Bros. version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches that no impressionable young viewer…

Most people use the terms “horror movie” and “scary movie” interchangeably. But that raises a question: Does a…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…

At this point, Blumhouse isn’t just a production company. Having bankrolled over a dozen years worth of Purges and…

Movies come from all over the globe to play the New York Film Festival every year. 2020’s mostly virtual edition,…

Note: The writer of this review watched Time from home on a digital screener. Before making the decision to see…