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Gators Attack in Alejandre Aja's "Crawl"

RJ Carter · October 10, 2019

During a devastating hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped in the crawlspace of a house with two enormous alligators. Cue the terror.

Why DC's Doom Patrol Deserves a Shiny Winged Statue

RJ Carter · October 1, 2019

After having endured the dark debacle that was passed off as TITANS on the DC Universe streaming service, I was once bitten, twice shy about DC Universe's other original series, DOOM PATROL, a spin-off of the TITANS series (havi

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Hardly Rise from Ashes for Marvel/Fox Franchise

RJ Carter · September 29, 2019

Back in the day when the UNCANNY X-MEN were jumping from one classic arc to the next classic arc, the House of Ideas threw a huge curveball at us when it was revealed Jean Grey had been possessed by a cosmic entity so powerful that it could -- and did -- destroy planets.

"Awake" a Sleepy Thriller

RJ Carter · September 28, 2019

When a car is forced off the road and the driver awakens with head trauma and amnesia, he arouses the curiosity of the nurse taking care of him. But this John Doe (JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS) may just be a hunted serial killer who's been leaving a trail of dead young women throughout the Midwest.

CW's Superhero Sitcom Gets Magical, Musical in Fourth Season

RJ Carter · September 24, 2019

Starting out as a B-team of heroes in the CW's Arrowverse, DC's LEGENDS OF TOMORROW has evolved from being a time-traveling adventure story that didn't take itself too seriously to being a full-out sitcom of superheroes who reference the main continuity but who remain unaffected by it -- and, apparently, don't

Missouri Monster Gets Retro Grindhouse from Small Town Monsters

RJ Carter · September 18, 2019

Cryptid films were a drive-in staple during the 1970s. None were going to win any Oscars, but the audiences weren't there for that. They wanted cheap chills and theatrical thrills from creatures that haunted the woods like those near their home towns.

Arrow's Plot-Packed Seventh Season Lands on Blu-ray

RJ Carter · September 2, 2019

The seventh season of ARROW brings with it echoes of the Green Arrow movie idea that was tossed around in the late 1990s. SUPERMAX was teased as a film about a superhero who gets incarcerated in a maximum security prison with the people he helped put there.

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