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Meta Monster Max
It's layers on layers. Peel 'em back like the skin he stole - the murderer, the tortured soul, and as Hitchcock reminds us - the human. Ryan Murphy's third installment of the 'Monster' series follows the equally gripping first two on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers. In it he explores the psychology of Ed Gein, the inspiration for Tony Perkins' character in 'Psycho.' Like Demi Moore's sidewalk slime as MonstroElisaSue in 'The Substance,' Charlie Hunnam's performance

Frederic Redfern
Oct 132 min read


Your Brain is Poison
Push pull rinse repeat. Sick. Tired. Cannot sleep. You know you want out. From the squiggly jello labyrinth upstairs. The pesky little...

Frederic Redfern
Aug 252 min read


Purple Reign
You've seen her. At the neighbor's. At the mall. In the hills of Beverly and the alleys of Inglewood. Pop on a plane and you can Where's...

Frederic Redfern
Jun 81 min read


Who is She?
"I wasn't the prettiest. I wasn't the most talented. I simply wanted it more than anyone else." Her name's Betsy Lerner but the words...

Frederic Redfern
Feb 53 min read


Screen Master One: Japan
Sushi. Sumo. Even Toto toilets. But... cinema? Maybe not your first association with the land of the rising sun. If you haven't gotten...

Frederic Redfern
Jan 62 min read


A Hollywood Emergency
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a dark figure in a feathered cape falling fifty stories. This ain't Marvel, girl. Or D.C. - whatever ....

Frederic Redfern
Dec 3, 20243 min read


Why Watch 'The Whale'?
It's been beached on your list for a year and a half. It's critically acclaimed. It won Oscars. But you never got around to watching it....

Frederic Redfern
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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