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From <i>Wakanda Forever</i> to <i>Weird: The Al Yankovic Story</i>, November is moviegoing month

From Wakanda Forever to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, November is moviegoing month

Prestige cinema like The Fabelmans, She Said, and Bones And All arrive, but of course, this month is all about Black…

Jack Smart,

Scott Huver,

Emma Keates,

Brent Simon,

Cindy White,

Luke Y. Thompson,

Mark Keizer,

Ian Spelling,

and Matthew Jackson

PublishedOctober 27, 2022

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Cry your freakin’ eyes out with the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s <em>The Fabelmans</em>

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Cry your freakin’ eyes out with the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg’s turning the camera on himself this time

Matt Schimkowitz

PublishedSeptember 11, 2022

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How the summer of 1982 changed movies forever

Packed with essential films like E.T., Star Trek II, Blade Runner, and Tron, one legendary season transformed…

Jeremy Smith

PublishedMay 6, 2022

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The best thriller movies to watch on Netflix right now

From Uncut Gems to The Hateful Eight, the streaming platform offers a range of pulse-pounding options

ByThe A.V. Club

PublishedApril 28, 2022

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Nazis, time travel, and creepy dolls are only a hint of what haunts <i>The Banishing</i>’s house

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Nazis, time travel, and creepy dolls are only a hint of what haunts The Banishing’s house

There’s something about Britishness that lends itself well to haunted houses: the top-button austerity, the stiff…

Leila Latif

PublishedApril 14, 2021

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Steven Spielberg to just cut to the chase and make a movie about his own childhood

Steven Spielberg’s films have left an indelible mark on countless childhoods, giving generations of movie fans…

Sam Barsanti

PublishedMarch 11, 2021

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The trailer for Shudder’s <i>Cursed Films</i> docuseries will send you down a Wikipedia wormhole

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The trailer for Shudder’s Cursed Films docuseries will send you down a Wikipedia wormhole

Hey, do you like scary movies? How about documentary TV shows about the making of scary movies? How about a…

Allison Shoemaker

PublishedFebruary 26, 2020

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R.I.P. James Karen, from Return Of The Living Dead, Poltergeist, hundreds of other things

James Karen, the actor who brought about The Return Of The Living Dead and indirectly blew up The Little House On…

William Hughes

PublishedOctober 24, 2018

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Steven Spielberg's been trying to work with Stephen King for a very long time now

It was a long time ago, in a universe not so unlike our own, that two men entered the pop-culture firmament with…

Alex McLevy

PublishedApril 6, 2018

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R.I.P. Tobe Hooper, horror pioneer

Tobe Hooper, a director who radically reshaped the landscape of American horror in 1974, when he took a shoestring…

William Hughes

PublishedAugust 27, 2017

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Poltergeist cameraman confirms long-standing rumor about the film’s real director

The Poltergeist franchise is famously cursed, supposedly due to the real human skeletons that were used as props in…

Katie Rife

PublishedJuly 18, 2017

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What supposedly terrifying movie doesn’t scare you?

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

Kyle Ryan,

A.A. Dowd,

Katie Rife,

Joe Blevins,

Becca James,

Erik Adams,

Alex McLevy,

Danette Chavez,

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky,

William Hughes,

Matt Gerardi,

and Dennis Perkins

PublishedOctober 28, 2016

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Here’s what’s coming to (and leaving from) HBO Now in October

HBO has a pretty big October ahead of it: The premium network is debuting a number of new shows next month,…

William Hughes

PublishedSeptember 21, 2016

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Do jump scares in films suck? This video examines a better way to use them

Jump scares are an effective way to startle the audience, but are they useful in establishing a more terrifying…

Rob Dean

PublishedAugust 25, 2016

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Stranger Things’ Joyce comes from a grand tradition of badass sci-fi moms

A harried Winona Ryder, ax gripped firmly in hand, is an unlikely visual representation of maternal love. And, yet,…

Molly Eichel

PublishedJuly 25, 2016

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RCA’s failed VideoDisc turns ordinary movies into glitchy masterpieces

Starting in the 1960s, RCA spent many years and a reported $600 million trying to develop a physical media format it…

Joe Blevins

PublishedMarch 22, 2016

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Johnny Depp is at his least handsome when he’s peeling his Trump makeup off

Johnny Depp has been disguising his matinee idol handsomeness beneath wigs and makeup for decades now, stretching…

Joe Blevins

PublishedFebruary 19, 2016

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Read This: Digging up the origins of the “Indian burial ground” trope

It’s a staple of the horror genre: the doomed house built on an ancient Indian burial ground and now haunted by…

Joe Blevins

PublishedOctober 22, 2015

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A new documentary about the “Poltergeist curse” knows what scares you

A new documentary on the “Poltergeist curse” is coming from filmmaker Adam Ripp. According to The Hollywood Reporter,…

Mike Vanderbilt

PublishedOctober 8, 2015

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Since reading’s for squares, here are some audiobooks of movie novelizations

Earlier this week, The A.V. Club reported on Wes Craven’s original draft for A Nightmare On Elm Street 3:…

Mike Vanderbilt

PublishedSeptember 4, 2015

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