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‘Destroyer’ Trailer: Guns, Gangs, Leather and Nicole Kidman

Karyn Kusama’s upcoming crime-thriller Destroyer looks extreme. If you’ve seen the director’s 2015 film, The Invitation, that probably comes as no surprise. Per the movie’s synopsis, “LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later,…

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‘Halloween: Resurrection’ is Trash

In the process of taking notes for this post, I wrote down the following quote spoken by one of Halloween: Resurrection‘s main characters: “Trick or treat…motherfucker!” If that’s not enough to make you go hmmmm, you should know that line is spoken by none other than Busta Rhymes. Because Halloween: Resurrection is trash. It’s not all…

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse — Stevie and Misty, A Love Story (S8, E5)

*This post contains spoilers from this week’s AHS: Apocalypse episode “Boy Wonder.” “Have we learned nothing from Atilla the Hun? Herod the Great? Mark Zuckerberg?!” I’m telling you, Myrtle Snow gets all the best lines. We’re going to dive into the tricky gender politics creeping into American Horror Story, but first—sick, Zuckerburn, right!? In the episode’s…

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REVIEW: A Star Is (Re)Born

A Star Is Born (aka the movie where Lady Gaga shows she can actually act) lives up to its promise. A star was born. Though Gaga’s Ally, an unknown singer-songwriter, does step out of the shadows and come into her own, it’s first-time director Bradley Cooper who’s reborn and raised to new heights. Grand-slamming a directorial…