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SUITABLE FLESH 😊

Adapting Lovecraft to screen is no easy feat. Love his work or hate it, it would seem the most successful adaptations take the source material, strip it of its problematic qualities, and reconstruct its core into a modern, insightful retelling. Recent examples include COLOR OUT OF SPACE, half of the shorts in GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITY, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, and HBO’s ill-fated series, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (which took advantage of, reworked, and exposed Lovecraft’s racist viewpoints). The…

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INVASION S2 REVIEW 😊

My breakdown of the good-not-great S2 of INVASION. E1-E3 “INVASION is a sci-fi thriller that spans the globe, offering minuscule seconds of hope and beating the odds. But it is the characters that drive this series forward. How is everything and everyone connected?“ E4 THE TUNNEL “INVASION is at its best when there are crazy, wild, panicking scenes of people being chased and hunted down by these strange creatures. There was a moment or two this week. More, please.“ E5…

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RICK AND MORTY S7E2 THE JERRICK TRAP 😊

If anyone doubted if the new voice talents would have any chemistry with the old, there’s nothing to fear as the latest episode teams up Rick and Jerry for a body-swapping… I mean, a brain-swapping episode. THE JERRICK TRAP does little to move the plot forward for the show’s characters. However, it’s okay to do that occasionally when the action and humor are so much damn fun. What’s keeping this episode from being a 🤩 is the convoluted ending that…

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