By In an industry that’s being rapidly taken over by computer-animated projects and various forms of AI slop, the work of Laika Studios still feels like a breath of fresh air. Probably best known for its (excellent) adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, the studio has had a remarkable run of success
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When orphaned Māori woman Mary (Ariāna Osborne) travels to Victorian England in the 1800s to uncover the identities of the parents she never knew, she instead unearths heinous secrets with far-reaching implications for her family tree. Mārama, the New Zealand gothic horror film from director Taratoa Stappard, folds cultural appropriation
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Mumblecore continues to grow into new genre offshoots. This year’s Sinner Supper Club has already been called both “mumblegore” and “mumblequeer,” but Nora Kaye and Daisy Rosato, who co-wrote and directed the movie, seem happy to embrace all the mumbles while taking things in a different direction. “Mumblecore is a
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Children’s books are usually associated with imagination, adventure, and comforting bedtime stories, but some of them contain surprisingly dark ideas beneath the surface. Over the years, filmmakers have taken those eerie themes and transformed them into full horror movies filled with monsters, nightmares, and psychological terror. In some cases, the
