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Some Christmas films are designed as family-friendly romps that can be enjoyed by all as a holiday confection. (Perfect example: A Christmas Story.) Others are adult-oriented fare that might make the Grinch blush. (Perfect example: Bad Santa.) Then...

This is the third time Stephen King’s bestselling vampire novel, Salem’s Lot, has been adapted for a visual medium. The first two, one in 1979 and the other in 2004, were both mini-series with running lengths of slightly over three hours. In o...

Bigfoot legends have been around for more than a century but they had their Moment in the 1970s and 1980s (alongside the Loch Ness Monster) when a Sasquatch craze swept the nation. It eventually died down as Bigfoot hunting parties came home empty...

Nowadays, everything needs an origin story…even a TV show. Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, which takes place in real-time during the night of October 11, 1975 in and around Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, mixes fact, fiction, mythology, and...

The 1972 Olympics, the first to be held in Germany since the infamous 1936 “Olympia” edition was presided over by Hitler in Berlin, was intended to be an opportunity for the country (in this case, West Germany) to show how much had changed sin...

Skincare takes its inspiration from the real-life case of Dawn DaLuise, a West Hollywood aesthetician whose dubious business tactics, which may have included hiring a hitman to eliminate a rival, made headlines in the L.A. era back in the mid-2010...

Slingshot is about the first manned trip to Titan but, somewhere along the way, the primary narrative is hijacked by a series of too-long flashbacks and a questionable decision to insert a late-in-the-proceedings twist. A problem with this movie, ...

Smile 2 takes the ideas and aesthetic of the original Smile and doubles down on them. Unlike many horror sequels, which come across as watered-down retreads of their predecessors, Smile 2 uses the first installment as a jumping-off point for a sto...

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a popular thriller trope in which a character (or group of characters) would form a connection with a stranger (or strangers) but, over time, the actions and motivations of one character would turn murderous....