Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s (2022)

Do you find the streaming era of film viewing to be lacking a certain something? Do you look back fondly on making the video store the first stop on your weekend journeys? Writer/director Bobby Canipe Jr’s documentary Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s may scratch some itches that have been plaguing you for likely the last two decades.

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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023)

I found myself in the crosshairs when 2019’s “Pet Sematary” came out. Most times I’m okay with remakes or retellings of novels, especially when in this case it had been 30 years since the original Stephen King adaptation. When I heard Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer of “Starry Eyes” fame were directing I was giddy with anticipation.

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Totally Killer (2023)

Think high school rocker boy Marty McFly, only now it’s a high school hipster girl named Jamie Hughes. Think a time machine DeLorean, only now it’s a time machine carnival photo booth. The comparisons between 1985’s “Back to the Future” and this year’s “Totally Killer” are practically endless, but don’t let that deter you.

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And Then Come the Nightjars (2023)

The year 2001 brought a slew of tragedies across the world. One that flew over my radar was the Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic among livestock throughout the UK. By December of that year, over six million animals were culled to stop the spread, leaving over 7,000 farmers without jobs and the meat and dairy economy on the razor’s edge of collapse.

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Alien Nation (1988) #RetroReview

Debuting on October 7th, 1988, Graham Baker’s Alien Nation seems to have only grown in relevance. A sci-fi allegory about racism and immigration, the film delivers on its action beats while keeping its message front and center. With a strong cast and an earnest tone, the film plays like a genre spin on In the Heat of the Night.

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Saw X (2023)

How has this franchise lasted all the way to this tenth installment? In every sense of logic, it shouldn’t have, especially in these last five or so years. The 2020s, maybe even a few years before, will go down in horror history as the Age of Elevated Horror.

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Mary Had a Little Lamb (2023)

Well, Mary certainly did have a little lamb, but I don’t think its fleece was ever white as snow. Not this lamb anyway. Something trending lately has been taking innocent childhood themes and stories and making them into grotesque caricatures that have zero reason for existing.

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