Category: Movie
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Wicked: For Good and The Empathification of Oppressors
Wicked: For Good is a well-intentioned movie with a good spirit and lively storyline that was simply put in clumsy hands. Of course, watching the movie, I worried to myself that maybe this movie made for children and people who participated in community theatre was not meant to be taken so seriously; then, I thought…
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But Rotten Tomatoes, I love Him (2025)!
A few days after Justin Tipping’s 2025 film Him hit theaters, I announced to my friend that I planned to go see it, foolishly conveying my excitement. Without looking up from her laptop, she responded that she heard it was a total waste of time. She knew a guy who saw it and said it…
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Happy Fortieth Birthday, Re-Animator!
Stuart Gordon’s horror cult-classic Re-Animator (1986), an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s titular novelette, turns forty this year, cueing a moment for reflection and retrospection. The movie tells the story of Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), a new student at Miskatonic University enamored with reanimating dead tissue. He meets Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), a promising fellow student…