Jamie Lee Curtis

‘Terror Train’ (1980) keeps Curtis’ golden age on track

Jamie Lee Curtis became the first slasher Scream Queen thanks to a surprisingly small batch of films – “The Fog,” “Prom Night” and “Terror Train”

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‘Freakier Friday’: Some things don’t change with age

“Freakier Friday” is a cute sequel to a cute 2003 remake of a cute 1976 movie that has been remade and sequelized several other times

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Carpenter artistically hides any cheapness in ‘The Fog’ (1980)

“The Fog” (1980) isn’t John Carpenter’s best film, but it might be his best achievement. He makes a roiling wall of glowing fog off the

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Cute ‘Freaky Friday’ (1976) leads to even better 2003 remake

When “Freakier Friday” hits theaters, it will be a sequel to the 2003 version of “Freaky Friday,” which remade the original (1976), which itself had

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Curtis and burgeoning tropes go to ‘Prom Night’ (1980)

Outside of Halloween and Friday the 13th, both of which were already considered spooky days, probably the next holiday/annual event that slasher films tried to

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‘Halloween Ends’ by digging into shape of evil

With the release of “Halloween Ends” on Peacock and in theaters, we can now reflect on director/co-writer David Gordon Green’s overall goal for his “H40”

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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ needed another editing pass 

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” needn’t be as overwhelming as its title suggests. The writing/directing duo of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert invent a multiverse

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‘Halloween Kills’ riffs on ‘later that night’ scares

Love or hate Blumhouse’s “H40” films, you have to respect how they stay firmly within the “Halloween” box while also giving us things we haven’t

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‘True Lies’ (1994) proves Cameron can do comedy

Writer-director James Cameron shows he can do comedy – and Arnold Schwarzenegger adds another notch to his laugh belt – in “True Lies” (1994). Cameron’s

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‘Virus’ (1999) is derivative but endearing

I was gung-ho for “Virus” in 1998; I gobbled up the 1992 comic series by Chuck Pfarrer (who co-writes the screenplay), and I recall the

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