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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

In Passionate Defense of Geostorm

Here’s an article I wrote on Geostorm and why it’s a better movie than you think!

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Alright, now, you know I love ripping the piss out of bad films as much as any reviewer does. A terrible movie is a certain kind of gift: flex your shitting muscles and get ready to crap all over a deserving release, whether it’s Suicide Squad or Nocturnal Animals. I get it. I do.

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Riverdale Recaps: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Sorry we’re a little late this week – I could come up with any number of excuses (not least snugging this little cat’s tiny ears!), but the truth is the episode left me kind of…eh.

I loved last week’s outing both for the sense of gleeful, gothic fun it exuded and the fact that it actually leaned into some of the underexplored corners of Kevin Keller’s…well, you know. And yeah, I suppose, this week took a shot at doing the same, but came off more perfunctory than anything else.

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This sequence was so, so damn well-directed that I couldn’t even hate it for how dumb it was

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