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"Creepy clowns" have become the rule, not the exception. How and when did clowns change from entertainers to tormentors?

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Ripoffs from Space: When Big Movies Are Cannibalized by Even Bigger Movies

Hollywood screenwriters know that if you don't have an original idea you can always steal an existing plot... and then set it in SPACE!

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The Flash season three shows what happens when mistakes unmake the universe.

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The Way Is the Goal: A Revealing Talk with KMFDM's Sascha Konietzko

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Maybe What's Going on in 'Get Out' Is All in His Head

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Spy for Sale: What Does the Future Hold for the James Bond Series and for Bond Himself?

With Sony's 007 contract expired, we take a tongue-in-cheek look at how very differently the Bond films might take shape under different studios.

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Much as Donnie Darko claimed widespread fame by defying both convention and expectation, Kelly is fighting to bring the mainstream to him on his own terms.

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Turkey has a rich cultural tradition in film, but lax copyright standards and low budgets led to some very bad rip off films that are funnier than ever today.

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From The Brady Bunch to MA*SH, what do we do when our favorite TV shows spawn shockingly dark offspring?

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In 'The Quiet Earth' The End of the World Arrives With a Whisper

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After the vitriolic fan backlash to Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the financial failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars needs saving. Here are some ideas on how to do that without invoking the help of The Force.

This is a hard-hitting (and highly recommended) documentary about the ties that bind us and the laws that might just separate us.

"Creepy clowns" have become the rule, not the exception. How and when did clowns change from entertainers to tormentors?

Hollywood screenwriters know that if you don't have an original idea you can always steal an existing plot... and then set it in SPACE!

Arrow remains a thrilling show, but season five is often both illogical and uneven.

The Flash season three shows what happens when mistakes unmake the universe.

Gotham relies on its fast pace and embrace of the insane to work as the diverse and bizarre show it wants to be, but occasionally the show is too surreal for its own good.

"I was not musically inclined to begin with," says Konietzko, "I came to music from a technical point of view. Like ‘How do you make sounds like this. How do you make dub reggae?’"

This film's horror could be satire of a fish-out-of-water situation; perhaps Chris is only imagining much of what he thinks is happening, and he's just overly anxious...

The Force is no longer mysterious. We've demanded to know everything about Logan’s history at the expense of his mystery. Hollywood complies. The magic is dead.

With Sony's 007 contract expired, we take a tongue-in-cheek look at how very differently the Bond films might take shape under different studios.

Much as Donnie Darko claimed widespread fame by defying both convention and expectation, Kelly is fighting to bring the mainstream to him on his own terms.

Turkey has a rich cultural tradition in film, but lax copyright standards and low budgets led to some very bad rip off films that are funnier than ever today.

This film itself is problematic, but Criterion's Blu-ray of Something Wild has me wondering, is Criterion slipping?

From The Brady Bunch to M*A*S*H, what do we do when our favorite TV shows spawn shockingly dark offspring?

This cerebral drama stands up with some of the best and most original science fiction.

From The Brady Bunch to MA*SH, what do we do when our favorite TV shows spawn shockingly dark offspring?