Crawlers The Algorithm Bites First
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«Review of Crawlers by Ángel Gómez Hernández. An exercise in claustrophobic horror where the algorithm rules and cinema obeys.»
A cinematic autopsy of Shinya Tsukamoto's masterpiece: when urban alienation and metal fuse into a single primal scream.
Fatih Akin dissects the psyche of killer Fritz Honka in a work of suffocating realism and profound historical discomfort.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show liberates no one: it is a cruel mirror that returns to heterosexuality its own mediocrity.
An unrelenting analysis of Voces by Angel Gomez Hernandez. When supernatural horror in Spain tries to be something more than door-slamming noise.
We dissect Ángel Gómez Hernández's The Boogeyman, an exercise where domestic folklore disguises itself as a 19th-century medical drama.
A teacher on the edge kidnaps a troubled student, and the system rewards her. Dr. Cynicism dissects this black comedy on institutional complicity.
A glacial immersion into the bureaucracy of digital guilt under the direction of Oleg Vitvicki.
Aaron Sorkin attempts to put Big Tech on trial but ends up reproducing the very same cheap dopamine he purports to denounce in The Price of the Network.
Crystal Lake dissects Pam Voorhees' past in a prequel that overly humanizes a myth that worked much better as an inscrutable shadow.
Thomas Vincent uses the theft of the Mona Lisa as a lazy excuse for an unbearable family therapy session starring Stanley Tucci.
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We interview filmmaker Miguel Ángel Refoyo on the occasion of the long-awaited return of his blog 'A World from the Abyss'. Auteur cinema, resistance, and craft.
In 1950, Felix E. Feist directed not a sports drama, but an implacable documentary about the industrial processing of juvenile flesh.
Batman's squishiest villain becomes B-movie body horror with great makeup and a script made of putty. Worth watching? With reservations: 6.5/10.
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We dissect Maclain Nelson's Don't Move, where a prehistoric arachnid reduces creature-feature horror to an exercise in absolute static.
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