S.K. Chishty
Trailer of the Day: The Giant (2020)
The Giant trailer serves up visuals that are dark and arresting. What is it about? On her graduation night, Charlotte learns that her...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 27, 2020
- 2 min
Halloween Month Beginnings: Brain Damage
'Beginnings' is a section where we pick up a film at random and visually explore their starting scene. Frank Henenlotter's punk freak-out...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Beginnings: Beanpole (2019)
Beginnings' is a section where we pick up a film at random and visually explore their starting scene. Beanpole was Russia's official...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 25, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: The Hunt (2019)
I suppose it is Donald Trump's fault who called the film "racist" simultaneously forcing Blumhouse to push the release and...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 24, 2020
- 5 min
Halloween Month Review: Antebellum (2020)
I propose that Veronica/Eden is actually a white person who happens to be Black.
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Oct 23, 2020
- 1 min
Halloween Trailer Review: The Empty Man (2020)
It is interesting that how the genre of slasher has stopped inventing damaged baddies from our own world and is increasingly relying on the
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
Halloween Month Review: Relic (2020)
Relic's slow-burn horror delivers in a unique way. "When was the last time you spoke to her?", the policeman asks Kay (Emily Mortimer)....
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Bed and Sofa (1927, Russia)
Tretya meshchanskaya is a mysteriously lesser-known masterpiece of silent cinema. Made allegedly in support of the state-sponsored...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Halloween Month Review: Hubie Halloween (2020)
Adam Sandler reprises his man-child act for the umpteenth time with surprising results. If you have taken time out to watch an Adam...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
Halloween Month Review: The Wretched (2020)
This is homage without feeling... but you can do a lot worse with your night. A troubled teenager Ben (John-Paul Howard) comes to stay...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: The Lodge (2020)
The film's style has more heft than the content. One of the main problems I had with 2018's critical darling Hereditary was that its...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: La Llorona (2019)
For better or for worse, this is one of the most overtly political horror films you'll see. Also known as "The Weeping Woman", this film...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Disney's scariest film? The horror scene changed considerably since the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). It brought forth...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
Trailer Review: The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Werewolf tale, hopefully back in its grittier avatar. Like many who are reading this, I was brought up on mean and brutal werewolf films...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
Beginnings: Primary Colors (1998, US), Dir.: Mike Nichols
'Beginnings' is a section where we pick up a film at random and visually explore their starting scene. In this edition of our...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 27, 2020
- 1 min
Beginnings: Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Turkey, 2011), Dir.: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
'Beginnings' is a section where we pick up a film at random and visually explore their starting scene. We open with a dirty window where...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
TV Show: Ratched (The Pilot)
Where a more subtle, chillier psychological study was warranted, Murphy, as expected, decides to go full-tilt horror. Ok. We get it....
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 20, 2020
- 4 min
Film Review: A film called 'Film' by Samuel Beckett
Today, Beckett's film can be deciphered as a warning against Social Media excesses and surveillance. Samuel Beckett wrote only one...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Sep 14, 2020
- 1 min
News: 'Candyman' fans will have to wait longer...
The sequel to the '92 cult hit is not coming out this year! The Nia DaCosta helmed sequel to Candyman has been awaited eagerly by the...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
Trailer Review: Freaky (2020)
"Freaky Friday" gets a freaky horror twist! Yesterday, I wrote about Possessor, a sci-fi horror about a woman who can be implanted into...
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