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Tomorrow You’re Gone Movie Review: No Full-On Inferno

By Mad Men’s fifth season, Betty Draper had walked out of our lives, and a much plumper Betty Francis had waddled in. The audience response to this swollen version of a once-slender character: a collective cringe. Suddenly Betty became a joke. In no time, a parody of Ram Jam’s “Black…

Soap operas are more wondrous and ridiculous than you may realize, especially if you’re under the misapprehension that soaps — especially daytime ones — revolve around nothing but steamy affairs, unplanned pregnancies, and Maury-style DNA tests. In fact, we thought the same, until we started watching General Hospital to catch…

Evil Dead 2013 Movie Review: Dare Ya Not to Look

Four years ago, on assignment for The Comics Journal, I asked Robert Kirkman a tough question about his Walking Dead comic series, a question that now, after the TV adaptation’s third season finale, is still resonant: Why are all the strong female characters either crazy or dead? His response, from…

For a guy who has spent a lot of time planning how to brutally murder people in the woods, the most shocking thing about Fede Alvarez is his well-adjusted nature. As the co-writer and director of Evil Dead (in theaters Friday, April 5), the new remake of the 1981 gore…

In February, New Times reported on the arrest of Salwa Amin, one of the stars of MTV’s teen redneck reality series, Buckwild. But Amin’s possession charges were only the beginning of gray skies for the network’s latest Jersey Shore-style stereotype-driven television. Cultist is sad to report that 21-year-old Buckwild cast…

Like the blood that gushes from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is really about have for years surged madly and memorably — especially online, where the Internet’s dead ends, blind links, and circular arguments just might be another part of the…

Remember Friday, when all the office drones of the country could talk about was Game of Thrones’ new season, which was just days away? There were interviews with cast members. There were items for sale on Etsy. There were facial hair power rankings. Anticipation was high. Then the first episode…

As wise man, Game of Thrones creator, and nerd demigod George R.R. Martin once said, “The stronger the beard, the stronger the man.” Okay, he didn’t really say that. But judging from the characters he created (and by Martin’s own bushy chinpiece), it’s fair to assume that statement is part…

You already know that briefly adopting adorable bunnies for Easter, only to ditch them at a shelter or in the wild a couple months down the road, makes you a horrible monster. It also means you’re missing the point of Easter. No, not the blessed resurrection of our lord and…

O Cinema is known (and loved) for its eclectic mix of weird, wacky and wildly artistic flicks, and now they’re branching out into another genre. Namely, what the fuck? In their own words, that sums up the films in their new series, BiZz-R-O Cinema, kicking off on April 5. The…

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