For all the whirlwind menace on display in Twisters, a reboot of the silly-fun 1996 summer hit about storm chasers braving heartland funnel clouds (and most famous for an airborne cow), Minari director Lee Isaac Chung’s high-tech new update also has a swirling black…
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The arrival of Longlegs—Osgood Perkins’ killer thriller about an FBI agent tracking a murderer—comes on the heels of distributor A24’s canny, months-long marketing campaign of carefully curated raves raising high hopes that just maybe a new horror “masterpiece” would be unleashed. But landing…
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In Nicole Riegel’s new Dandelion (IFC Films, July 21), star Kiki Layne plays a not-so-young Cincinnati musician fiercely committed to doing things her way, and to finding a home onstage that is uniquely hers across spaces that are not always welcoming to Black female…
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A few months ago, Ti West’s MaXXXine dropped a ripping good trailer promising the lurid thrills of adult film actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), stalked by a Hollywood slasher in a perfectly recreated 1985 Tinseltown milieu. But the film’s arrival proves a disappointment, West…
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