Movies

‘Air’ an engrossing chronicle of Nike’s side of the legendary MJ deal

“Air” (Amazon Prime) cleverly and crisply chronicles Nike’s 1984 signing of Michael Jordan to the now-legendary basketball shoe contract. It’s not a chronicle of Jordan

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‘Hellraiser: Revelations’ (2011) reveals how low the saga can go

“Hellraiser: Revelations” (2011) is the worst “Hellraiser” movie, but among the most interesting to discuss. Because Dimension has a contract with the “Hellraiser” IP where

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‘Hellraiser: Hellworld’ (2005) so close to being a smart meta sequel

“Hellraiser: Hellworld” (2005) – the saga’s eighth film, third in a row from director Rick Bota and second consecutive film shot in Romania – is

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Crowe’s ‘Pope’s Exorcist’ adds some edge to familiar structure

“The Pope’s Exorcist” sounds like a title you’d see on a Redbox kiosk around the time of a new “Exorcist” movie (indeed, that saga’s sixth

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‘Cobweb’ weaves a sticky blend of monster and mystery

In a time of overhyped too-minimalist horror films (“The Black Phone,” “Boogeyman”) and big-name franchises (the “Insidiouses” and “Conjurings”), “Cobweb” finds a nice middle ground.

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‘Amityville Murders’ (2018) fills in key piece of puzzle

It took until the 23rd film with “Amityville” in the title for the 1974 Defeo family murders to finally be chronicled in full. Writer-director Daniel

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Wuhrer wades into ‘Hellraiser’ weirdness in ‘Deader’ (2005)

The “Hellraiser” saga has a strange ability to tell the same story over and over but not in precisely the same way. For “Hellraiser: Deader”

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‘Amityville: The Awakening’ (2017) wastes its meta premise

“Amityville: The Awakening” (2017) has a hook, at least when I say it out loud. The story is set in the “real world,” where the

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Winters endures mysterious mayhem in ‘Hellraiser: Hellseeker’ (2002)

The “Hellraiser” saga is more defined by its antagonists than its protagonists, but its original Final Girl – Ashley Laurence’s Kirsty – was a fan

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Where were you in ’73? ‘American Graffiti’ marks 50 years

With “American Graffiti” (1973), George Lucas wanted to put 1962 in a time capsule, and he ended up creating a film that has stood the

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