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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 21 Jun 2016

L.A.'s high-fashion industry gets eaten alive and puked back up in Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn's psychosexual satire on the quest…

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Review of The Conjuring 2 (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 09 Jun 2016

At 134 minutes, TC2 is an excruciating ordeal for discriminating horror fans -- or anyone who understands that life is short…

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Review of Alien³ (1992)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 03 May 2016

There have also been digital restorations and improvements to the original film's negative and sound mix, but the best thing about this rerelease…

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Review of Alien (1979)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 03 May 2016

There have also been digital restorations and improvements to the original film's negative and sound mix, but the best thing about this rerelease…

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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 26 Apr 2016

The movie viciously transforms from a semi-hokey portrayal of a struggling punk band to a gritty survival-horror flick that keeps you transfixed…

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Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 10 Mar 2016

Go into 10 Cloverfield Lane mostly blind and let its mysteries unfold like a long-lost, newly discovered Twilight Zone episode…

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Review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 03 Feb 2016

I haven't suffered such anguish at the movies since reviewing Uwe Boll's appalling Alone in the Dark back in 2005…

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Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 21 Jan 2016

It's disasters like this that make you welcome any conquering species, as long as they agree to vapourize Hollywood first…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 07 Jan 2016

You're left feeling like you could get just as creeped out by reading a good Stephen King story and then going for a hike in Stanley Park…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 07 Jan 2016

You're left feeling like you could get just as creeped out by reading a good Stephen King story and then going for a hike in Stanley Park…

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Review of Cell 213 (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 12 Dec 2015

The film's overall quality rarely rises above decent direct-to-video product, and its underlying theme...is a tad ambitious, all things considered…

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Review of Krampus (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 04 Dec 2015

It all leads up to a noisy, overdone climax...but only leaves you hoping for another onslaught from those twisted versions of that show-stealing…

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Review of Krampus (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 04 Dec 2015

It all leads up to a noisy, overdone climax...but only leaves you hoping for another onslaught from those twisted versions of that show-stealing…

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Review of Victor Frankenstein (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 25 Nov 2015

By the time Frankenstein's monster shows up to raise holy hell in the last act, you're not even that interested, because its lumbering violence…

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Review of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 30 Oct 2015

These days you can barely swing a chainsaw without hitting a zombie-based movie or TV show, but Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse doesn't…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Oct 2015

Crimson Peak has a lot going for it, and may well be the most ravishing horror movie ever made…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 08 Oct 2015

It's the most unsettling identical-twin psycho-thriller I've seen since The Other-and that was back in '72…

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Review of The Green Inferno (2013)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 24 Sep 2015

It's a total shame that this time around the celebrated fearmonger was more concerned with bodily functions and corny jokes than with generating…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 10 Sep 2015

Will M. Night Shyamalan ever clue in? Just because there's a twist in a movie doesn't mean the movie's any good…

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Review of The Visit (2015)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 10 Sep 2015

Will M. Night Shyamalan ever clue in? Just because there's a twist in a movie doesn't mean the movie's any good…

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