Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: Winners and Sinners
[Welcome to Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew up watching. We’ll be ...
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Movies
Review: Renfield
I really wanted to like Renfield. Goofy vampire movies are such an unfulfilled niche in media, only really seen in What We Do ...
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Are there any records The Super Mario Bros. Movie won’t break?
If you can believe it, The Super Mario Bros. Movie just set a few more records in its third week up top at ...
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Review: Sisu
It seems like thanks to the success of the John Wick series, any movie that features one lone, unknown killing machine that left a ...
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Review: Evil Dead Rise
What is an Evil Dead movie? Probably a deeper question than you thought you were going to get in a review for Evil Dead ...
Review: The Pope’s Exorcist
Original horror movies are back, and The Pope’s Exorcist is not one of them. A vague rip-off of 1973’s The Exorcist full of ...
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Review: Suzume
You ever get the feeling that certain directors are one hit wonders? That’s the feeling that I’m starting to get whenever I think ...
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Review: Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt’s latest feature film, Showing Up, feels like a breath of fresh air. As someone in the process of applying to grad ...
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Miyazaki Marathon – Princess Mononoke
With the upcoming release of Miyazaki’s 12th (and possibly final) film, How Do You Live?, we at Flixist will be taking a look at Miyazaki’s ...
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie set more records in its second weekend up top
Is it really any surprise that The Super Mario Bros. Movie would remain number one at the box office during its second weekend? ...
Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
It’s 2023 and the effects of climate change are everywhere. It’s April and already 88 degrees in New Jersey. While people argue over ...
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Review: Paint
Did you know that Paint isn’t actually a movie about Bob Ross? Based on all of the marketing and co-opting of some of Ross’s aesthetics ...