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Ratu Ilmu Hitam, or The Queen of Black Magic, is a remake of the 1981 Indonesian film of the same name and the latest addition to Shudder's...
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!['The Queen of Black Magic' Ticks All the Boxes of Good Horror Directed by Kimo Stamboel]()
'The Queen of Black Magic' Ticks All the Boxes of Good Horror Directed by Kimo Stamboel Published Jan 26, 2021 -
!['Night Stalker' Is a Fascinating but Uncomfortably Glamorous Dive into Richard Ramirez's Crimes Directed by James Carroll and Tiller Russell]()
Reviews'Night Stalker' Is a Fascinating but Uncomfortably Glamorous Dive into Richard Ramirez's Crimes Directed by James Carroll and Tiller Russell Published Jan 21, 2021It's the summer of 1985, and the city of Los Angeles is being terrorized by the Night Stalker. A serial killer, serial rapist, kidnapper and...
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!['The White Tiger' Offers Incisive Commentary on India's Class Division Directed by Ramin Bahrani]()
Reviews'The White Tiger' Offers Incisive Commentary on India's Class Division Directed by Ramin Bahrani Published Jan 20, 2021It might be tempting to compare The White Tiger to Slumdog Millionaire, but you'd do a disservice to the former specifically and the genre o...
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!['Psycho Goreman' Is Bloody Good Fun Directed by Steven Kostanski]()
Reviews'Psycho Goreman' Is Bloody Good Fun Directed by Steven Kostanski Published Jan 20, 2021In her 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp', Susan Sontag says of camp that it is "the love of the exaggerated." In other words, what is campy isn't n...
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!['Hunted' Gets Bored with Its Own Protagonist Directed by Vincent Paronnaud]()
Reviews'Hunted' Gets Bored with Its Own Protagonist Directed by Vincent Paronnaud Published Jan 18, 2021Hunted, a Belgian-French-Irish production, is the latest in a long line of survival horror films that focus on a woman fighting back against...
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![Yung Lean Doc 'In My Head' Demystifies and Mythologizes the Enigmatic Swedish Rapper Directed by Henrik Burman]()
ReviewsYung Lean Doc 'In My Head' Demystifies and Mythologizes the Enigmatic Swedish Rapper Directed by Henrik Burman Published Jan 18, 2021Anyone who was on the internet in 2013 will likely remember Yung Lean as a babyfaced, bucket hat-adorned Swedish teenager, rapping about Mar...
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![Jason Segel's Great Performance Can't Save 'Our Friend' from Feeling Sanitized Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite]()
ReviewsJason Segel's Great Performance Can't Save 'Our Friend' from Feeling Sanitized Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite Published Jan 18, 2021In 2012, Nicole Teague was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In 2013, her friend Dane Feaucheux moved in with her and her husband, Matthew, to...
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!['WandaVision' S01E01-02 Review: Marvel's Genre Experiment Is Too Straight-Laced to Push the Envelope]()
Reviews'WandaVision' S01E01-02 Review: Marvel's Genre Experiment Is Too Straight-Laced to Push the Envelope Published Jan 15, 2021Marvel Studios had a quiet 2020, so one might expect them to start 2021 by loudly declaring that the characters audiences know and love are...
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!['Outside the Wire' Is a Good Movie to Half-Watch While Scrolling on Your Phone Directed by Mikael Håfström]()
Reviews'Outside the Wire' Is a Good Movie to Half-Watch While Scrolling on Your Phone Directed by Mikael Håfström Published Jan 13, 2021Netflix recently unveiled a star-studded trailer for its 2021 slate, featuring 71 new movies for the platform. One of these movies is Outsid...
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!['Promising Young Woman' Exposes Toxic Masculinity and Those Complicit in It Directed by Emerald Fennell]()
Reviews'Promising Young Woman' Exposes Toxic Masculinity and Those Complicit in It Directed by Emerald Fennell Published Jan 08, 2021The last two years have been quite the showcase for Emerald Fennell. In addition to writing six of the eight episodes for Killing Eve's seco...
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!['History of Swear Words' Has All the Wit of a Preteen Edgelord Hosted by Nicolas Cage]()
Reviews'History of Swear Words' Has All the Wit of a Preteen Edgelord Hosted by Nicolas Cage Published Jan 05, 2021Back when I was in elementary school, students were forced to participate in a school-wide public speaking competition. Every kid had to pic...
