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10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Bad Teacher””Cape Fear””Fargo””Her””How to Train Your Dragon 2″”Hunt for the Wilderpeople””Midnight Special””One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest””The Outpost””Troy” 9 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Babyteeth” Shannon Murphy defies all coming-of-age and cancer movie tropes...

What were these people thinking? That’s the question I asked myself over and over again while watching “The War with Grandpa,” a straining comedy featuring the wildly overqualified Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Cheech...

In the sophomore brainchild from Canadian writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, the business of killing for hire takes on a uniquely insidious form—an assassin can take control of another body via ambiguous technology, preferably of a person close to...

This October, nothing’s scarier than the national news. But with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting in-person film festivals for the foreseeable future, savvy festival organizers are ensuring the horror-heavy film fests that genre aficionados have come to...

“Hubie Halloween” attempts to get a lot of comedy mileage out of Adam Sandler yelling like he’s about to die. Another of the Sandman’s lovable grown children, Hubie has become the target of constant pranks by...

A mixture of mid-century rah-rah patriotism and “Mad Men”-style professional rivalry, the series “The Right Stuff”—based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 nonfiction book, already adapted once into a 1983 film—is a surprisingly compelling workplace drama once it...

There may be no such thing as werewolves, but Jim Cummings is no stranger to men who wrestle with inner monsters.  In his SXSW-winning feature, 2018’s “Thunder Road,” the writer/director also starred as a well-meaning Texas...

FOX’s “Next” reminded me of ’90s cautionary tales about runaway technology like “Ghost in the Machine” and “Virtuosity.” This is not a good thing. Bizarrely dated for a show that thinks it serves as a warning...

The games in 2K’s “Mafia Trilogy” are the kind of mixed bag of quality that often comes with collections of titles originally released on other consoles. The series launched in 2002 on Microsoft Windows before being...

It takes approximately 500 minutes for creator Mike Flanagan’s “The Haunting of Bly Manor” to tell a story that would have been just as effective at 120, or even 150 minutes, with fewer characters. Flanagan’s previous...