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Up and down your street, all around you, there are houses. Houses that look just like yours. Houses with brightly lit windows and sweet smoke coming from the chimney on autumnal nights.You may even know…

“Why, why would you do that?” I cry during nearly every single horror movie I watch these days, even good ones. Practically no movie seems to be able to completely escape all the horror tropes out there,…

Alright then. How many ’80s movie references can you spot in this piece by Jason Edmiston? I topped out at 17, but I think there are a few more I’m missing. All I know is that this…

Saturday night, I watched Gravity in theaters for the second time, desperate to show my wife how intense the early Oscar favorite was in IMAX 3D. Sunday night, we were out again for Captain Phillips,…

The remake of Stephen King/Brian De Palma’s Carrie is coming out, presumably to further cement Chloe Moretz as “that murdering teenager” between Kick-Ass and Let Me In. While I don’t know if the remake will…

Please allow me to define “quietly disturbing”, so we are all on the same page, right away. What I mean by quietly disturbing is a movie that messes you up, but does so without being…

by Lyle Smith Hey folks, time for some more This Week in Movie Trailers! It has been a relatively calm week for movie previews, but let’s see what’s been released anyway! Oh, first, did anyone…

In my review of Gravity earlier this week, I mentioned how a common complaint these days is that a movie theater just isn’t worth going to because of long drives, high prices and rude patrons,…

It’s that most wonderful time of year again. Shocktober, Horrorween, All Hallows, Samhain, Vampire Awareness Month; and that means it’s time to monster mash. So from here until Halloween, I’m going to use my column…