It’s not often that a remake, reimagining, reboot, whatever you want to call it of a popular horror franchise lives up to its hype, but when Jordan Peele announced he was co-writing and co-producing a new version of “Candyman,” there wasn’t much question that this one would. This movie definitely feels like it was crafted […]
Candyman
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Mr. Nice
Here, the switch from mere Oxford student to corrupt bad boy is flipped with one look at the stunner Elsa Pataky (“Fast Five“) and a taste of cannabis. From there, the path of Marks (Rhys Ifans, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”) is marked with marriage, divorce, the IRA, MI-6, LSD, hashish, arrests, […]
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Hatchet II
His “Hatchet II” — shown briefly in this unrated version in AMC Theaters before being suddenly and unexpectedly booted — is made precisely for the growing fan base surrounding 2006’s original “Hatchet,” and nobody else. That film simultaneously sought to pay homage to (and even parody) the slasher anti-heroes of 1980s horror, while establishing a new […]