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by Justin Query *** Scream Factory’s 4K UHD Collector’s Edition of ‘The Strangers’ (2008) will invade homes on September 10th — sooner than some will have hoped, if they’ve never seen the inimitable home invasion thriller about two lovers terrorized by a trio of nihilistic killers. Now is the perfect time to reflect upon this…
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by Justin Query *** As yet another anniversary of the tragic September 11th attack on America’s World Trade Center approaches, Image Comics — more than five years ago — addressed the racism that erupted across the world after the dust of Ground Zero finally settled. To this day, the specter of this bigotry continues to…
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by Justin Query *** As Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus [chest]bursts into theaters, take a look at an alien franchise that sometimes hit closer to home. The Predator series remains an equally formidable mountain of science fiction monster moviemaking. *** Few imagined in 1987 that when it finally took nothing less than a nuclear explosion to…
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by Justin Query *** In 1986, one of the finest cinematic coming-of-age films — director Rob Reiner’s adaptation of a Stephen King novella, entitled for the big screen, Stand By Me — was released. It’s the story of four young boys (Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and the inimitable River Phoenix) about to begin…
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by Justin Query EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is published from an original source, reprinted here in anticipation of Ti West’s latest film Maxxxine, which allegedly brings the trilogy to a close. *** It’s Halloween season once more, and soon neighborhoods will be flooded with children and adults hiding their faces behind masks, thereby reinventing themselves…