Author: Sean Parker
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We are now less than a week away from the start of the twenty-ninth edition of one of the biggest film festivals on the planet, the Fantasia International Film Festival. This year, the festival begins with Ari Aster’s Eddington, concludes with Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed, and is packed with over one hundred additional features to occupy…
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2020 was just the weirdest year. The pandemic. The quarantine. The regular video chats to soothe our collective traumas and silence our internal screaming. Though it was five years ago now, it remains a fresh hell. The likes of which I hope we need not traverse again. However, the pandemic did give some creatives new…
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Just before entering the Chattanooga Film Festival for what was to be my last in-person film of the festival, the foyer of the Chattanooga Theatre Center was boisterous. People were just exiting Tina Romero’s excellent Drag Queens v Zombies comedy, Queens of the Dead, and the final party of the weekend loomed. Delaying the “Pizza…
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Even though I was boots on the ground at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year, having a spectacular time watching one awesome film after another, the online edition of this year’s festival was just as good. There was some overlap with titles like The Misadventures of Vince and Hick, Hacked, and I Really Love My…
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The shark-horror monster movie scene is one of those subgenres that allures us this time of year. Hell, my television will likely have every actor that’s ever faced a shark in a movie represented during the Fourth of July week. From the king of shark movies, Jaws, to the tsunami of titles that have recently…
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We’ve all been scammed in one way or another. The internet is quickly replacing the bad places and dark alleys we were always told to avoid as kids. Yet, it resides inside every one of our homes, leaving none of us truly safe from falling victim to bad actors looking to steal our information and…
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Back in 2020, James Villeneuve was a name I made note of. I was watching Vicious Fun on Shudder and loved every minute of it. The film starts as a single-location thriller, where an ’80s horror movie critic gets stuck in a Chinese food restaurant after hours with a group of serial killers holding a…
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Twenty-six years ago, Hollywood stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, and Brendan Gleeson jumped into a lake in Maine to hunt a crocodile. With a Jaws formula, creepy nesting locations, and good direction, Steve Miner’s Lake Placid scared up some summer fun back in the summer of 1999. Though gators and crocs have slight…
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*The following film review may be triggering to some as House of Abraham heavily concerns assisted suicide. If you or anyone you know is suffering, help is available by contacting the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Call or send a text to 988 on your phone.* It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since Slapface,…
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Mark O’Connor is no stranger to exploring the dark, grimy underworld of Dublin’s streets. In fact, he’s made a bit of a name for himself through films like Cardboard Gangsters and Between the Canals by doing exactly that. O’Connor adds to his collection of gritty crime dramas with the release of Amongst the Wolves, which…