A lot of horror fans assume that the “Slasher Flick” was killed off in the 90s, with the most likely culprit being Wes Craven’s loving satire, Scream. While it’s true that the many incarnations of Ghostface helped to expose the subgenre’s overused tropes and weaknesses, slasher movies never really died; they just became less mainstream
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On a late afternoon before the holiday weekend, Disney has made some tweaks to its theatrical release schedule. The Michael Showalter-directed Searchlight movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye will open a week earlier on Sept. 17 instead of Sept. 24. It wouldn’t be shocking if the Jessica Chastain-Andrew Garfield-Vincent D’Onofrio movie about the rise, fall and redemption
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Hong Kong based martial artist and actor Robin Shou (real name Shou Wan Por) is best known for his butt-kicking monk character, Liu Kang — who battles it out with the Outworld to save the Earthrealm from impending doom — in the classic 1995 action movie, “Mortal Kombat,” and the 1997 sequel, “Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.”
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Mdou Moctar’s music burns with the kind of intensity that can hardly be contained by arbitrary distinctions. “I don’t know what rock is exactly,” the Tuareg guitarist has previously said, though it wasn’t so much a comment on the genre itself as an unpretentious attempt at drawing attention to the style he actually plays, which
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Nick Rattigan, it often feels like, is a filmmaker trapped in the body of a musician. Formerly a production assistant in the film industry, his songs under the Current Joys moniker often reference films: on his latest album Voyager, there are songs named after the works of Lars von Trier (‘Dancer in the Dark’, ‘Breaking
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