Katie Walsh
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After ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines,’ you’ll never look at a septum piercing the same ever again
The ‘Final Destination’ franchise is back, with cleverly staged thrills, gore galore and Kaitlyn Santa Juana leading a ‘Bloodlines’ cast that includes the late, great Tony Todd.
The Y2K-era heartthrob from “The Virgin Suicides” is having a career resurgence in less heightened material — and seems to be enjoying himself immensely.
Based on a 2020 horror novel by Adam Cesare, the movie has too many evil-clown competitors of sharper style and potency to contend with en route to scares.
Director Joe Burke and longtime collaborator Oliver Cooper make microbudget indies. Their new one, ‘Burt,’ doesn’t have a distributor yet, just tons of heart.
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Survive ‘Until Dawn’ and you beat the game, but horror fans wanting red meat have already won
After a detour through two ‘Shazam!’ movies, director David F. Sandberg returns to the gory genre he loves most with a project based on a PlayStation favorite.
As spy thrillers go, this one is suspense-free and generic, wasting a decent cast that includes Jon Bernthal, Laurence Fishburne and Rachel Brosnahan.
The show was called ‘Press Your Luck’ and, in 1984, an Ohio man won a windfall on it, as dramatized in this retro-styled media satire starring Paul Walter Hauser.
Supremely dry and subtle, Steve Coogan saves this real-life story, about an adopted penguin and an academic rescued from his loneliness, from sentimental excess.
‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Casino’ screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi brings a wealth of Mafia knowledge to a movie that traffics in constant nods to other gangster classics.
Based on the memoir by Scott LeRette, the movie takes on subjects including autism and brittle-bone disease with a faith-based foundation in church and family.