Reviews
Today’s consumers have more entertainment options than ever before thanks to technology and the explosion of new media outlets. That’s why Hollywood in Toto will help readers suss out the very best content across media. We all lead busy lives. Let’s consume only the highest quality movies, television shows and music with our limited leisure time.
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Why Both the Left and Right Hated Netflix’s ‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’
So Netflix canceled the brilliant and funny “Teenage Bounty Hunters” after just one season. That’s both sad and entirely predictable…
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Tobe Hooper’s ‘Funhouse’ – A Trip You’ll Never Forget
This year should have been the 98th annual county fair that takes place in my state. While some have never…
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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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