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Bostonian culture journalist Andy Crump covers the movies, beer, music, and dad stuff for way too many outlets, perhaps even yours: Paste Magazine, The Playlist, Inverse, Hop Culture, Polygon, and occasionally the New York Times, plus others. You can follow him on Blue Sky, and find his collected work on his personal blog. He’s composed of roughly 65 percent ale.
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The Totally Bonkers Fight Scene That Almost Saves This Movie
BREAKING DISHESThe outrageous Ana de Armas fight scene in “Ballerina” is so much fun you almost wish the movie had just stopped when it was done.

The ‘Psycho’ Remake We Deserve in 2025 MAGA America
BEWARE OF THE SHOWERThe new movie “A Desert” references so much of the Alfred Hitchcock classic—but it hits differently in a modern Americana setting.

‘Stranger Things’ Star’s Next Act: Making a Slasher Comedy
A CUT ABOVEFinn Wolfhard and his “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” co-star Billy Bryk dish on their filmmaking debut: the summer-camp-gone wrong movie “Hell of a Summer.”

‘Death of a Unicorn’ Is Even Crueler in the Age of MAGA
TIMELYForget about “snowflakes.” What are we meant to read into the brutal murder of a unicorn?

Jack Nicholson’s Son Comes Out of Nepo Baby Shadow
FAMILY TREEThe new movie “Borderline” is the biggest role of Ray Nicholson’s career so far—and it exposes the ways he is and isn’t like his dad, Jack.

Even ‘Paddington in Peru’ Feels Political at This Moment
THE REAL WORLDAs one father shares, after a traumatizing experience for his kid’s friend, you can’t even see a family movie these days without the weight of the world crashing in.

Serial-Killer Movies Are Going Full MAGA About Sex
MY BLOODY VALENTINEPerfectly timed to the increasingly conservative climate, “Heart Eyes” is a movie that equates premarital sex with cause for death. Is the slasher film overtly political?

A Trailer Spoiled This Movie’s Big Twist. Hysteria Ensued.
SPOILERPHOBIAAudiences protested that a trailer for horror hit “Companion” ruined the movie experience by spoiling its big twist. We’ve seen the film. Those people are fools.

Screw the AI Tech Bros Who Want to Resurrect My Dead Mom
PLAYING GODDocumentary “Eternal You” exposes so-called pioneers of death capitalism who use AI to make the dead seem alive. I watched the movie soon after my mom passed. Here’s why it’s bull.

The Movie Scene Even Grosser Than ‘The Substance’
FACEOFFThe new horror film “Grafted” has a sequence so disgusting and cinematically impressive we haven’t stopped thinking about it. Here’s what to know.
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