2 posts tagged ‘film genres’

• The January Canon: 20 good movies released during Hollywood’s worst dump month

  AV Club, Jan 19, 2024

  Historically and annually speaking, January is a bad month for Hollywood movies. It’s a “dump month,” that time of year when the major studios offload the projects in which they have no faith. Sandwiched between the holidays and the Super Bowl, these four weeks are generally treated like a write-off season, as bad… Read more...

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• Eli Roth's Thanksgiving Is a Dumb, Disgusting Delight

  Gizmodo, Nov 17, 2023

  The idea for Eli Roth to make a horror movie about Thanksgiving was originally a joke. Several holidays are synonymous with Hollywood horror. Halloween, of course. Christmas has a few movies. Valentine’s Day too. But Thanksgiving? That’s so silly. Or is it? Read more...

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