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The fell kings of the cul-de-sac return on Deafheaven’s New Bermuda
The suburbs suck: from Rush to Arcade Fire to Deafheaven.
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Green Room is a merciless, punk-as-sh*t siege movie
We’re at Fantastic Fest this week and are bringing you impressions of our favorite films shown at the event. For all of our hot, hot takes, head over here. /// “I like murder,” Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier confessed in a post-screening Q&A. This comes as no surprise. You might know Saulnier’s
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Darling is a stunning psychohorror chamber piece
We’re at Fantastic Fest this week and are bringing you impressions of our favorite films shown at the event. For all of our hot, hot takes, head over here. /// Mickey Keating’s Darling is a lovingly-crafted Polanski mixtape. If the idea of “Repulsion, but also The Tenant” gets your juices flowing, s
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Kung fu epic The Assassin is impossibly, breathtakingly, stupidly gorgeous
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Shut up and go stream Advantageous, a feminist sci-fi stunner now on Netflix
A quietly great new sci-fi film is on Netflix. You should watch it. Like, right now.
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Go beyond the realms of death with Sylvio
From out of the murky depths crawls a classically weird horror game.
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From Fez to It Follows: a conversation with Disasterpeace
We talk with Disasterpeace about videogames and scoring this year’s best horror film.
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Exploring the cramped, beautiful cinematography of survival horror
The hidden pleasures of “bad movies.”
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The unconscionably rich world of Axiom Verge
Tom Happ’s passion project is more than the sum of its influences.
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Hotline Miami 2 force-feeds you sleaze
The one that goes all the way.
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The Deer God gets lost in its own pixelated forest
Less is more.
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The visor as cinematographer in Metroid Prime
That eccentric little control, actualized.