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Film Review: Expend4bles: Sly lets his series die with abysmal fourthquel

  When the insertion of the number 4 in a film’s fourth outing as a substitute for the letter A is the smartest thing it’s able to execute, you know you aren’t in for the smoothest of operations. In a year where we’ve seen certain action sequels prove that there’s ample gas in the tank…

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Film Review: Evil Dead Rise is a relentless and beautifully horrific addition to the long-running franchise

Enhancing the punishing and graphically gory nature of Fede Álvarez’s 2013 “reimagined” Evil Dead and the more comedic inclination of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 (1987), Lee Cronin‘s Evil Dead Rise is a manic, at-times disgusting horror treat that proves there’s still a whole lotta (after) life left in this franchise. Given that Cronin seems…

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Film Review: Scream VI is the finest and freshest the series has felt since the original

Given how meta and self-referential the Scream series has become, there’s something kind of brilliant in the familiar Ghostface vocal (again brought to sadistic life by Roger L. Jackson) exclaiming “Who gives a fuck about movies?” as he slices down on his latest victim prior to the Scream VI title card.  The answer, it would…

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New Fast & Furious 9 trailer takes Fast Saga to new heights – literally!

Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021, the Fast & Furious series has defied all expectation and grown to exponential heights as Vin Diesel and his motley crew have graduated from street racing to international espionage. The latest trailer for Fast & Furious 9 only adds to the franchise’s penchant for athletic lunacy as Diesel’s Dominic…

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World’s Sickest Film Franchise Slithers to Australian Screens

Australia’s premier cult film festival, Monster Fest, are delighted to announce a national theatrical tour of the latest entry in one of the most notorious film franchises of all time, The Human Centipede. Writer/Director Tom Six has brought back the star of the first two films for his final chapter The Human Centipede 3 (Final…

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