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Every bit as stupid and nonsensical as NWH was, but whereas that film practically reveled in its blandness as it held for applause for every big hit of nostalgia, the situation here has to rely on something a bit more substantial to generate its pleasures, like, I don't know, solid genre filmmaking style and craft. Though one wonders just how much the character and concepts would have flourished had things not had to be so beholden to the constraints of…

It's kinda impossible to not notice that this is pretty much the same general plot that was already present in Do America, but as is often the case for all things Beavis and/or Butt-Head, going with what works has rarely failed the show before since the idea is just so strong and resilient that one just really needs a good script and Mike Judge in the recording booth to pull it off. Thankfully, since Judge is always present for both…

The 90s really couldn't have been all that bad for horror when this remains an example of how excellent those films could be! Coming back with a swell 4K restoration that really brings out the gorgeously grotesque production design that powers this version of Cabrini-Green, Bernard Rose and his crew helped set a strong standard for more traditional horror films to aspire to with this great mix of supernatural terror, psychological distress, and a very mature handling of its subject…

This fit in right about where my expectations were for it once the synopsis got out there and the first teaser trailer hit. Those expectations, of course, weren't terribly high at all, as I was worried that the focus on the meta humor of making a big-ish Rescue Rangers-adjacent film in 2022 would get in the way of a lot of basic storytelling elements that could not only ground the film to be about something more than those jokes, but…