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THE CROW Review: Don’t Call It a Reboot, Call It a Reimagining

After spending the better part of two decades parked in development purgatory, the long-mooted remake, reboot, and/or reimagining of James O’Barr’s comic-book series/comic strip, The Crow, makes a belated, somewhat anticipated appearance in the nation’s multiplexes just as the summer season ends, schools reopen for another year, and another doom-laden presidential election (one of the most important of our lifetimes or so we’ve been informed) fast approaches. In short, it’s a perfect time of the year for a new, grim-dark adaptation of a 35-year-old goth-punk classic. That’s assuming, of course, that said adaptation justifies its existence beyond the exploitation of preexisting IP (intellectual property). Unfortunately, the Rupert Sanders-directed remix-as-reimagining The Crow doesn’t. Lugubriously, flaccidly directed, overlong and overindulgent, bizarrely waiting until the 40-minute-mark to introduce…

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HELL HOLE Exclusive Clip: Nobody Wants to be Contaminated Like This

The new film from the Adams Family, Hell Hole, starts streaming on Shudder tomorrow, Friday, August 23rd, and we’e got an exclusive clip to share with you today. Check it out down below.    In the Adams Family’s celebration of the classic creature-feature, an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host.   In the clip we’ve see John trying to talk with the 200 year old French soldier the fracking crew found buried in the ground. Understadably there is…

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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Trailer: The Fierce Embrace of Multiculturalism

Oh, Canada. We like to call you a mosaic, a land in which people are free to maintain their culture and language, and to a certain extent, this is true. Growing up in Toronto, now living in Montreal, I love to visit Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Portugal, indulge in the foods, music, and languages spoken around me, a slice of the world in my proverbial backyard. And yet, the reality can often be somewhat different. We can begin with being a settler nation and the loss of many indigenous languages, and even today, often immigrants are harassed, or worse, for speaking their native tongue. Our fierce embrace of multiculturalism also means we risk crushing it. Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century) is keenly away of this…

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Popcorn Frights 2024: STRANGE DARLING, BIRTHRITE Win Awards From Jury and Audience

The 2024 edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival has concluded, but on a closing note, the Audience and Jury award winners have been announced. The 10th annual fest, held in South Florida, broke their records for attendance. As a hybrid festival, they attracted crowds in person and also online. I’m all about uniting people, not dividing them, yet it’s interesting to compare and contrast the various awards. The following is from the official press release: “This year, the jury panel, comprised of national media figures and local filmmakers, selected J.T. Mollner’s terrifying cat-and-mouse thriller Strange Darling for the Jury Prize for Best Feature Film. In accepting the award, J.T. Mollner stated, ‘Wow. This is such an honor. Sincere thanks to Popcorn Frights, the jury,…

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Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 Preview: The Dark Heart of Cinema Gets Even More Frightening

Ever since it was first staged in 2000, FrightFest has enlivened — or perhaps I should say endarkened — central London over the Bank Holiday weekend. Now known as Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, the 2024 edition kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, August 22, with another outstanding edition. Opening night festivities at Odeon Cinemas Leicester Square will kick off with the world premiere of Joanne Mitchell’s Broken Bird, described as: “A rich, absorbing and disturbing tale about a quiet soul in emotional turmoil. Sybil Chamberlain works as a professional mortician at a funeral parlour. She has spent her life looking for love. Brought up as a privileged, carefree child, at the age of ten, she lost everything in a tragic accident. A darkness fell over her as the…

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