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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Powerful ‘Sarah’s Oil’ Shines Spotlight on Plucky Heroine
Hollywood remains obsessed with racism, witness DEI-style policies and absurd casting choices. Racism, particularly the toxic kind displayed during the…
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‘Predator: Badlands’ – Get to the Exits!
“A ‘Predator’ movie where the creature is the good guy who teams with a plucky lady robot…” – Don Draper,…
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Exhume ‘Corpse Bride’ for Forgotten Tim Burton Treat
“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” (2005) isn’t as celebrated as the stop-motion films Burton produced and/or directed before and since (more…
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‘A House of Dynamite’ Never Ignites
Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is so intense that I was compelled to keep watching, but it’s also a…
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Stephen King’s ‘Graveyard Shift’ Saved by Genre Fave
Ralph S. Singleton’s “Graveyard Shift” (1990) is the odd duck Stephen King film that was released in a banner year…
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Buckle In for ‘Bugonia,’ The Year’s Wildest Ride
It’s bad enough being stuck in a conversation with a conspiracy theorist. What if one kidnapped you and forced you…
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‘Stitch Head’ Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts
Steve Hudson’s “Stitch Head” is a stop-motion animation comedy taking place in a world where monsters are created but instructed…
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Don’t Let a Man-Eating Tree Scare You from ‘The Guardian’
William Friedkin’s surreal, nasty 1990 horror film, “The Guardian” is not the 2006 movie starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher…
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‘Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh’ Made the Monster Matter
Bill Condon’s “Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh” (1995) succeeds in a different way from its predecessor, specifically how it is…
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Is ‘Anniversary’ Anti-Trump … or Just Confused?
“Anniversary” is an MSNBC (MS NOW?) screed that leaves out the bogeyman, presumably on purpose. The dystopian drama imagines a…
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