Whether you own a fast car, you love movies like “The Fast and the Furious,” or you just want to find out what drifting is all about, FuelFest is where you want to be in March. Spearheaded by his youngest brother Cody, FuelFest began in 2018 as a one-off opportunity to raise money for the […]
John W. Allman
John W. Allman has spent more than half his life as a professional journalist and/or writer, but he’s loved movies for as long as he can remember. Good movies, awful movies, movies that are so gloriously bad you can’t help but champion them. In 2009, he started a review column dedicated to the genre films that often get overlooked and interviews with cult cinema favorites like George A. Romero, Bruce Campbell and Dee Wallace. In 2016, he began reviewing films for Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.
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Review: Ti West and Mia Goth stick the landing with ‘MaXXXine’
Get ready to be transported back to the wonderful days of VHS trash cinema
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Review: The ‘Bad Boys’ franchise has fallen and shouldn’t get up
‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ is a low point for the 29-year-old franchise, but something tells us this won’t be the last Smith/Lawrence joint
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ further cements George Miller’s legacy as the greatest action director alive
Tell me a better, more consistent director over the past 49 years than Australia’s George Miller.
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Review: ‘The First Omen’ isn’t the first or even best ‘Omen’ movie, but it’s good enough
The religious horror genre is alive and thriving in 2024
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Review: Dev Patel delivers a new modern action classic with ‘Monkey Man’
It transcends those benchmarks of brawl and bullet-ballet fantasies by actually being about something more than the brutality that humans can inflict.
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Review: ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ fails to answer the call
The fifth film in the franchise mistakes nostalgia for originality
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Surprise, ‘Madame Web’ is an early contender for worst movie of 2024
That’s right, Sony has made another Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man.
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Review: Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster’s ‘Night Swim’ drowns in its own ambition
‘Night Swim’ should terrify and unnerve me to no end.
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It’s official, ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ is the worst movie you will see in 2023
A steaming pile of fish poop.
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Review: Just go ahead and give Emma Stone the Oscar for ‘Poor Things’
This feminist reimagining of Frankenstein is one of 2023’s best films.
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Review: Pro wrestling might be fake, but it’s more real than Sean Durkin’s ‘The Iron Claw’
This misfire is an empty, emotionless biography of the Von Erich brothers.
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This isn’t the end of Marvel. It’s where it starts getting really interesting.
Don’t listen to the pundits, don’t read click-bait online, just go see it for yourself
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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ is an interminable, scare-free bore wholly focused on selling merch
If there is one thing to champion here, it’s that the animatronic characters courtesy of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop are fantastically realized.
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Martin Scorsese’s latest, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ is like watching a horror movie in real time
Deceit. Death. Despair. Repeat.
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Despite boasting a slew of beloved horror properties, the scariest thing about Halloween Horror Nights is how much it costs
Be warned: Express Passes are already sold out until October 27
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Sir Henry’s Haunted Trail in Plant City is a scrappy DIY delight for anyone who loves practical horror effects
Central Florida’s best Halloween attraction still sits off Interstate 4, but it’s no longer in Orlando
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May the power of Christ compel you to avoid ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ at all costs
There hasn’t been a worse major studio horror film since 2010’s ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ which is really saying something
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Review: As murder mysteries go, ‘A Haunting in Venice’ is deadly dull
It’s packaged like a luxurious slice of old Hollywood goodness, yet it consistently falls short of that mantle.