Movies
Today’s audiences don’t just watch movies at the local cineplex. They screen them on their laptops, tablets and smart phones as well. The genres may be different, but Hollywood in Toto looks at entertainment value first and foremost when helping you pick the best movie for your favorite media player.
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Landmark ‘Dead of Night’ Still Haunting 75 Years Later
You can tell if a movie is genuinely a classic by how many works were influenced by it. After all,…
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‘Come Play’ Recycles Too Many Horror Tropes to Scare Us
There’s finally a new book to put on the cinematic shelf next to “The Babadook.” Naturally, it’s a cyber-edition, one…
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How ‘Dead & Buried’ Got Overshadowed by Its Own Marketing Campaign
The poster and trailer for Gary Sherman’s “Dead & Buried” is more iconic than the film itself, and that’s a…
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Why ‘The Dark Half’ Captures Stephen King at His Confessional Best
Stephen King’s “The Dark Half” novel addressed the multifaceted nature of being a horror writer – specifically, the question of…
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Why Genre Mashup ‘The Cell’ Still Thrills Us 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, the once independent New Line Cinema (now owned by Warner Brothers) made expensive art movies for mainstream…
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‘Plot Against the President’ Shames Media, Deep State Agents
Imagine consuming the mainstream media for the past three years and then watching “The Plot Against the President.” Wait? What?…
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Ahoy! Why ‘Cutthroat Island’ Isn’t the ’90s Shipwreck We Were Told
As we look back on 1995 and the cinematic buried treasure it left us, it’s time to give overdue praise…
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Trump Derangement Sinks ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
The original “Borat” felt like comedy got the facelift we didn’t realize it needed. Sacha Baron Cohen leveraged “Candid Camera”…
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‘America’s Forgotten’ Shares True Toll of Weak Immigration Enforcement
“America’s Forgotten” packs a considerable punch, but it rope-a-dopes for the first few rounds. Director Namrata Singh Gujral spends too…
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Unsolved Mystery: Why ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ Never Became a Classic
Barry Levinson’s “Young Sherlock Holmes,” a prequel story about the legendary detective’s student years, never graduated to true cult movie…
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