Tag: 2020s
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Hooptober 11.0 – Oddity (2024)
Being Film #24 for Hooptober 2024 We’re getting to the saturation point of reviewing. 24 reviews in 23 days. I’m beat, trying to get this wrapped up so I can take on the other writing stuff I’m putting off. Luckily, the films continue to show bright spots in the genre, perhaps none more so than…
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Hooptober 11.0 – ‘Salem’s Lot (2024)
Being Film #21 for Hooptober 2024 Announced in 2019, shot in 2021, originally set for theatrical release in 2022 only to dribble out onto the Max service this past Friday, the long-awaited ‘Salem’s Lot took a meandering road to reach our eyes. And in the end it was neither a massive misfire not a surefire…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Unwelcome (2023)
Being Film #20 for Hooptober 2024 It can be a startling thing when expectations are upended. You think you’re familiar with something, say, a filmmaker based on a particular film. And you hear about their new film, and it looks like it treads similar ground. And it does, except it doesn’t. And in that thin…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2024 The beautiful thing about The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is how much of a “first film” it is, in the best possible way. The directorial debut of Bomani J. Story, this is a film very much full of ideas, using genre to get at the heart of…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2024 Boy do I like Patrick Wilson. Guy is a phenomenal performer, handsome to a damn fault, and has made some really brave and interesting choices in his career. He also seems to really love genre, and I love that his passion for this franchise and these characters propelled him…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Infested (2023)
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2024 We’ve see a lot of films that are one thing on the surface and something else underneath. Infested, the French spider creature feature from Sébastien Vaniček in his feature debut is very much two things, but both are very much on the surface and striking in their forcefulness. You…