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THE DEB MOVIE REVIEW Every girl dreams of her big debut, with the perfect dress, the perfect date, and the perfect night to remember. Unless you’re a teenage feminist who thinks the whole thing is a patriarchal nightmare. Then it’s time to burn down the ballroom. Rebel Wilson makes her feature directorial debut with The […]

ANIMALS MOVIE REVIEW Politics is a dirty business. But when your family-values campaign turns into a hostage situation, things are about to get downright savage. In this Ben Affleck written and directed Netflix crime thriller, wealthy Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball (Affleck) is days away from an election when his young son is kidnapped […]

V/H/S MIXTAPE MOVIE REVIEW Shudder has got you covered for this season’s spooky screenings with the ninth segment of the popular anthology series V/H/S with V/H/S/Mixtape. The narrative that connects the horror shorts this time around is the heavy metal shock rock and roll band GWAR. The band have their own bizarrely disgusting wraparound narrative, […]

NECROMANCER EP 151 – CLUNY BROWN (1946) The Romans invented the job. Mario perfected it. And now the necromancers are the first ever to cover plumbers in rom coms and horror. Bret and Shira plunge into their topic with the rom com classic, Cluny Brown. Listen to find out if the “Lubitsch touch” is really […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: BLACK MAMBA This week, the boys enter the bizarre, green screen nightmare world of Belinda M. Wilson. Joined by Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle’s Culture Desk editor and film critic, they unpack a vanity project for the ages! Monkey paw wishes, breastfeeding monsters, and enough butt stuff to make even the […]

CLAYFACE MOVIE REVIEW The comic books to movie train keeps chuggin’ along and the results have been of late, hugely varied. But if you fall on the ‘not into those’ camp, you might reconsider your stance for Clayface. Telling the origin story of the DC comics supervillain, writer Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, […]

WICKER MOVIE REVIEW Wedding bells are ringing and shackles are shined, and a bottle maker is forever bound to his beloved. Bring out the feast and let the band play, love has won the day. Amongst the party goers is a very skilled fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who carries the weight of her parents craft as […]

HALLOWARRIOR MOVIE REVIEW Ellen Ripley. Laurie Strode. Nancy Thompson. In the world of horror movies, there is a certain type of woman who is powerful enough, smart enough, and cunning enough to navigate a world of apocalyptic threats and savage killers. You don’t expect them to offer you candy. Milly Shapiro plays Pumpkin, an innocent […]

KLARA AND THE SUN MOVIE REVIEW Some would say that Taika Waititi has been on a downward slope with his most recent films, Next Goal Wins & Thor: Love and Thunder, but he’s back with his latest film adapting the acclaimed novel Klara and the Sun. Starring Jenna Ortega as the titular Klara, she is […]

CARRIE SEASON 1 REVIEW Legend tells that Tabitha, an editor of a spooky scary author, fished a manuscript out of the troubled scribe’s trash can. Reading what had escaped the author’s mind onto crumpled pages, she demanded the story be completed. Thus the novel Carrie was born. Fifty years later and the world is once […]