Author: Devon Pack
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The Hitcher (1986): From the Ruthless Archives
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Read more: The Hitcher (1986): From the Ruthless ArchivesA continuous string of all the nightmares of the long drive. Rutger Hauer is a revelation, less man than terrible angel of hatred in this tense 80s Western Gothic.
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Three Guesses as To Why the Most Successful Movie Franchise is the Least Culturally Impactful: -or- Why Avatar Fire and Ash will make a lot of money and leave no legacy.
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Read more: Three Guesses as To Why the Most Successful Movie Franchise is the Least Culturally Impactful: -or- Why Avatar Fire and Ash will make a lot of money and leave no legacy.I spent 3 and a half hours, over an eighth of my day, in a theater watching this. And less than an hour later the details are already running like water out of my mind and memory
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70s Horror Classics- Black Christmas (1974 Original)
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Read more: 70s Horror Classics- Black Christmas (1974 Original)A suspenseful final 15 minutes does not offset the plodding 75 minutes preceding. This is a film for slasher movie connoisseurs who want to examine the roots of the genre.
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Army of Darkness
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Read more: Army of DarknessIf you asked me to name a film that was the perfect embodiment of the charm of midnight movies, it would be Army of Darkness.
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Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Devon’s Take
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Read more: Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Devon’s TakeIt is more difficult to measure the median and the middling than it is to explain the excellent or the execrable. There is versatility in the language for the superlatives and the extremes; it is more difficult to engage with the entertainment that does not provoke.
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Eddington (2025)
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Read more: Eddington (2025)I’m having difficulty reviewing this film after only one sitting. It’s engaging but not entertaining, urgent, evocative of other dark contemporary Westerns like No Country for Old Men or Sicario but somehow even grimmer and less fun
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Superman (2025)
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Read more: Superman (2025)It’s a summer popcorn film, silly and unserious, a better than middling superhero flick that is made for fans of Silver Age Superman.
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M3gan 2.0 (2025)
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Read more: M3gan 2.0 (2025)M3gan 2.0 is like so many products in this day and age: sufficient but never really superseding expectations, too glib and plastic to ever shock or to surprise.
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Bob Le Flambeur (1956)
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Read more: Bob Le Flambeur (1956)Bob knows everybody in the slums of Montmartre, and everybody knows Bob (Roger Duchesne). With his five o’clock shadow and his rumpled trenchcoat, Bob Montagne is a gambler and hustler, going from hosting one backroom game of craps to the next blind pig.
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The Dark Knight: Devon’s Thoughts
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Read more: The Dark Knight: Devon’s ThoughtsHate it or love it, but this is an essential and definitive film of the superhero genre, and one that speaks more to the zeitgeist of the 00s which have enabled our present dystopia