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A LITTLE PRAYER (2025) Is a Quiet Gem [Blu-ray Review] The screenwriter of Junebug directs this understated Southern family drama led by David Strathairn Angus Maclachlan’s drama A Little Prayer, set in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, stars David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck, Sneakers) as Bill, the patriarch of a small family. Son David (Will Pullen, Dickinson, Lilly) and his wife Tammy (Jane Levy, TV’s […] The post A LITTLE PRAYER (2025) Is a Quiet Gem [Blu-ray Review] first appeared on Cinapse.
12.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No Christians Allowed! Two Cents Thrills and Chills Kicks Off with TROLLHUNTER Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contribute their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comments are encouraged, as are suggestions for future picks. Join us as we share our two cents on films we love, films […] The post No Christians Allowed! Two Cents Thrills and Chills Kicks Off with TROLLHUNTER first appeared on Cinapse.
12.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS is Destined to Divide and Enrapture “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” The new screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights has already gotten its fair share of criticism from those who have gotten an advanced peek, many of whom have taken issue with writer/director Emerald Fennell’s highly erotic take on the classic novel. The movie’s endless […] The post WUTHERING HEIGHTS is Destined to Divide and Enrapture first appeared on Cinapse.
12.02.2026 03:39 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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CRIME 101 is a Lesson in Basics “I need to be in your line of work.” Watching Crime 101 made me miss the straight-to-DVD/blu-ray times severely, specifically that window of space between the mid-late 00s and the early 10s when that area of film seemed to offer up titles in abundance. The combination of established stars and genuine talent come together for […] The post CRIME 101 is a Lesson in Basics first appeared on Cinapse.
12.02.2026 02:45 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS Offers Unfaithful Fanfic to a Gothic Classic Emerald Fennell’s new interpretation of the beloved novel is its own beast. A confession upfront: I have never read Wuthering Heights. Going into the latest adaptation, the third film from Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell, I was blind as to what to expect. I had heard of Heathcliff, and how he was the archetypal Gothic romance […] The post WUTHERING HEIGHTS Offers Unfaithful Fanfic to a Gothic Classic first appeared on Cinapse.
10.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Eli Roth’s CABIN FEVER Still Infectious Fun Two Decades Later? One of the great things about revisiting movies over the years is how your reaction changes as you change over time. It’s a nice way to chart your personal growth and see how your tastes have matured. Even when I’ve soured on a movie I once liked, I still find it useful to look back […] The post Is Eli Roth’s CABIN FEVER Still Infectious Fun Two Decades Later? first appeared on Cinapse.
10.02.2026 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Make sure you get your asses to the theater to see NIGHT PATROL before you miss out. If for no other reason, you get to see vampire cops slayed by the very community they prey on. ACAV motherfuckers!

23.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

My first review of the year, and it's a doozy. Sam Raimi's nasty, sunsoaked new film reminded me of the gnarliest Tales From the Crypt stories in the best possible way.

26.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: RUN AMOK Is the After-School Special We Need Right Now - Cinapse The coming-of-age film is a familiar genre, but NB Mager takes on something far more daring in Run Amok, which recently screened as part of Sundance’s online program. The film follows the firebrand fr...

@dantabor.bsky.social reviews the #sundance2026 film RUN AMOK for @cinapse.bsky.social cinapse.co/2026/01/sund...

30.01.2026 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: JOYBUBBLES: A Captivating Portrait of Hacking’s First Pioneer - Cinapse The concept of hacking has evolved drastically over the years, and Joybubbles, which just screened at Sundance, paints a vivid portrait of Joe Engressia — also known as Joybubbles — one of the origina...

@dantabor.bsky.social reviews #sundance2026 film JOYBUBBLES for @cinapse.bsky.social cinapse.co/2026/01/sund...

30.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Stupid fucking white man.”

03.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s my original review for #TheForbiddenCity for @cinapse.bsky.social. If you’re a fan of action, romance, Rome, or mafia movies… do yourself a favor! There’s nothing like it.

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06.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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WHISTLE: A ’90s Horror Throwback With Teeth I was lucky enough to catch Whistle as the closing-night film at Fantastic Fest, and it’s haunted me ever since. The ’90s throwback centers on a cursed Aztec death whistle — and honestly, the moment I first learned such a thing existed, I knew someone would eventually build a horror movie around it. I’d been […] The post WHISTLE: A ’90s Horror Throwback With Teeth first appeared on Cinapse.
05.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: THE HUNTRESS (LA CAZADORA) Turns Vengeance Into Survival The Huntress (La Cazadora) is a bracing reframe of what, at first glance, might look like a straightforward revenge-o-matic. Drawing from real-life events in the border city of Juárez, Mexico, the film instead tells a far more nuanced and devastating story about a woman who decides she can no longer survive by staying silent. Set […] The post Sundance 2026: THE HUNTRESS (LA CAZADORA) Turns Vengeance Into Survival first appeared on Cinapse.
05.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: THE MOMENT – Brat, But Make It Cinema With concert films now a cinematic rite of passage — offering fans one last communal high while doubling as a farewell cash-in — it takes something special to bend the format into something new. Enter Charli XCX, one of pop’s most restless shape-shifters, who uses The Moment (Now open in NY and LA) to give […] The post Sundance 2026: THE MOMENT – Brat, But Make It Cinema first appeared on Cinapse.
04.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: ROCK SPRINGS Is a Haunted Reckoning with America’s Forgotten Chinese History We stand at a moment when American history is being rewritten in real time—one that erases the struggles of immigrants, enslaved people, and Indigenous communities forced to sustain the project of colonization we call the United States of America. Against that backdrop, it feels like a rare and necessary act of resistance when a filmmaker […] The post Sundance 2026: ROCK SPRINGS Is a Haunted Reckoning with America’s Forgotten Chinese History first appeared on Cinapse.
04.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WHISTLE Director Corin Hardy on Death Whistles, ’90s Horror, and What’s Next I was lucky enough to catch Whistle (Which opens in theaters FRIDAY, FEB 6th) as the closing-night film at Fantastic Fest, and it’s haunted me ever since. The ’90s throwback centers on a cursed Aztec death whistle — and honestly, the moment I first learned such a thing existed, I knew someone would eventually build […] The post WHISTLE Director Corin Hardy on Death Whistles, ’90s Horror, and What’s Next first appeared on Cinapse.
04.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Criterion Brings Jim Jarmusch’s Darkly Humorous Western DEAD MAN To 4K! Jim Jarmusch’s bleak satire of the Wild West makes its way to 4K from Criterion. Dead Man is a pitch perfect example of the pure versatility of the western genre. The ultimate American genre, westerns have been our way of mythologizing ourselves for over 200 years. Stories of a once untamed western frontier have inspired […] The post Criterion Brings Jim Jarmusch’s Darkly Humorous Western DEAD MAN To 4K! first appeared on Cinapse.
03.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Sundance 2026: Night Nurse Turns Caregiving Into a Darkly Horny Nightmare Night Nurse was one of the most pleasantly unhinged surprises I caught at Sundance. The last thing I expected walking in was an erotic thriller slithering through the darker, more taboo corners of caregiving—but that’s exactly what Georgia Bernstein delivers. Written and directed with wicked confidence, the film follows Eleni (Cemre Paksoy), a young nurse […] The post Sundance 2026: Night Nurse Turns Caregiving Into a Darkly Horny Nightmare first appeared on Cinapse.
02.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Keaton Curation: SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE [Two Cents] Remembering Diane Keaton on her birthday month. Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contributes their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comments are encouraged, as are suggestions for future picks. Join us as we share our […] The post A Keaton Curation: SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE [Two Cents] first appeared on Cinapse.
01.02.2026 05:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Archivist: THE SEARCHERS 4K Remaster Befuddles our Home Video Editor – Check Out the Screen Comparisons This article contains comparisons which contrast Warner Archive’s new 4K restoration against the prior 2006 Blu-ray, also from Warner Bros. The frames aren’t necessarily exact matches, but should give a solid indication of the visual differences. Arguably the most beloved film from one of cinema’s greatest directors, John Ford’s sprawling widescreen saga The Searchers was […] The post The Archivist: THE SEARCHERS 4K Remaster Befuddles our Home Video Editor – Check Out the Screen Comparisons first appeared on Cinapse.
30.01.2026 08:48 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Criterion Review: Edward Yang’s YI YI [4K UHD] Edward Yang’s Yi Yi is the kind of movie that’s intimidating to write about at first glance. A classic that has been evaluated, canonized, and praised many times over in the quarter-century since its release that surely there isn’t anything left to be said about the film. I don’t claim to have had any major […] The post Criterion Review: Edward Yang’s YI YI [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.
30.01.2026 04:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SEND HELP Review: Raimi’s Latest Doesn’t Need Any Rescuing “We’re not in the office anymore.” Poor Rachel McAdams. Maybe her characters just shouldn’t get on airplanes. In 2005, Wes Craven cast the actress as a hotel manager who is targeted by an assassin on a late-night cross-country flight in the heart-pounding thriller Red Eye. This time around, she’s teamed up with another horror directing […] The post SEND HELP Review: Raimi’s Latest Doesn’t Need Any Rescuing first appeared on Cinapse.
30.01.2026 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: JOYBUBBLES: A Captivating Portrait of Hacking’s First Pioneer The concept of hacking has evolved drastically over the years, and Joybubbles, which just screened at Sundance, paints a vivid portrait of Joe Engressia — also known as Joybubbles — one of the original “phone phreaks.” Born blind at a time when long-distance calls were prohibitively expensive, Joe possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability to […] The post Sundance 2026: JOYBUBBLES: A Captivating Portrait of Hacking’s First Pioneer first appeared on Cinapse.
29.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: RUN AMOK Is the After-School Special We Need Right Now The coming-of-age film is a familiar genre, but NB Mager takes on something far more daring in Run Amok, which recently screened as part of Sundance’s online program.  The film follows the firebrand freshman Meg (Alyssa Marvin), whose school is preparing a commemorative ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of a school shooting that, in just […] The post Sundance 2026: RUN AMOK Is the After-School Special We Need Right Now first appeared on Cinapse.
29.01.2026 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sundance 2026: NUISANCE BEAR Review: When Wildlife Tourism Becomes Exploitation Wanting a dose of serotonin during my at-home Sundance watch, I opted for what I assumed would be A24’s nature doc Nuisance Bear. Instead, the film reveals itself as not only a captivating portrait of its titular animals, but of the communities forced to coexist with them. It’s not just a wildlife documentary — in […] The post Sundance 2026: NUISANCE BEAR Review: When Wildlife Tourism Becomes Exploitation first appeared on Cinapse.
28.01.2026 22:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Criterion Review: John Huston’s THE DEAD This adaptation of a James Joyce short story serves as a poignant and powerful swansong for the filmmaker John Huston’s The Dead feels less like an adaptation and more like a final act of communion, a great filmmaker quietly sitting with the words of his favorite writer, James Joyce, and letting them breathe one last […] The post Criterion Review: John Huston’s THE DEAD first appeared on Cinapse.
28.01.2026 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cinema of Resistance, Issue 2: Racism and Hope, Both on Full Display in WHITE MAN WALKING Welcome to Cinema of Resistance, a semi-monthly column highlighting films of all genres and styles with one thing in common – a desire to shed light on, fight against, and/or stick it to authoritarian regimes, fascists, and bigots both in present day and historically. Genre film about violently killing Nazis, deep drama about finding meaning […] The post Cinema of Resistance, Issue 2: Racism and Hope, Both on Full Display in WHITE MAN WALKING first appeared on Cinapse.
28.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Sam Raimi’s SEND HELP Delights with a Devilish Game of Survival Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien power this wild and warped Desert Island (mis)adventure Sam Raimi is back. A blessing to all, save those who have to suffer the experience of having blood, vomit, insects, or other nasty substances poured over their faces on one of his sets. Know for his visual flair and wicked sense […] The post Sam Raimi’s SEND HELP Delights with a Devilish Game of Survival first appeared on Cinapse.
27.01.2026 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Sundance 2026: GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a Chilling Exposé of AI’s Dark Origins While I’m genuinely interested in how AI as a technology might empower us as a civilization, the term itself has been so thoroughly co-opted that it’s become an unavoidable buzzword — a catchall marketing label slapped onto anything that might benefit from its selling power. That passing curiosity is what got me in the door […] The post Sundance 2026: GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a Chilling Exposé of AI’s Dark Origins first appeared on Cinapse.
27.01.2026 00:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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