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4 reasons the Aquaman movie is so bad I want it to get lost at sea
The iconic hero’s first solo film is a shipwrecked, soggy mess that no amount of water puns can salvage.
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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Deadpool returns to fudge cancer and make you laugh
Feel warm and fuzzy about America’s sexiest, raunchiest superhero (and it’s kid-safe).
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Will Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse best Disney at the Academy Awards?
The latest Spider-Man may finally loosen Disney’s stranglehold on the animation category.
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Suspiria casts a bewitching and gory spell
Don’t hate us for believing this remake of Dario Argento’s horror classic is superior to the original.
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Short horror film made by local filmmaker showing in Tampa tonight
Local musician Thomas Crane premieres his short film, ‘Halloween Party’ at Carrollwood Villagio Cinemas.
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Tampa Theatre brings The Slumber Party Massacre cast to meet fans at a pre-Halloween screening
Dismembering of a cult classic happens at the theatre’s Nightmare on Franklin Street series.
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Finally, after 40 years, Halloween is scary once again
It’s the eleventh in the franchise, but it’s one of the best horror sequels ever made.
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Zombie for a day at Dade City Halloween attraction Scream-A-Geddon
After watching countless zombie movies, John Allman’s love of horror finally comes in handy.
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Howl-O-Scream unveils 17 and up haunted house
Howl-O-Scream has monsters galore, from cannibal hillbillies to more cerebral frights.
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A Star is Born — but it’s not the star you think.
A third trip to the well for ‘A Star Is Born’ only works because of Bradley Cooper’s solid direction and Lady Gaga’s amazing voice.
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MegaCon Tampa Bay showcases the creativity and ingenuity of pop culture fans — especially “Sheriff Rick Grimes”
As tens of thousands of attendees donned their best (and weirdest) outfits, Melbourne cosplayer Cecil Garner began his farewell tour as Sheriff Rick Grimes.
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The Predator makes you long for the days of Danny Glover
By mining the worst of excessive 1980s action-comedies, Shane Black delivers an incomprehensible shitshow of a sequel.
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Kin makes about as much sense as its name
A sort-of-good final 15 minutes isn’t enough to salvage this not-so-good sci-fi thriller.
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The Little Stranger would be better if it was a lot more strange
An Oscar-nominated director dips his toe into gothic chamber chills, but only succeeds in leaving his audience cold.
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All hail The Meh, because The Meg is a toothless blunder without any bite
If ‘Jaws’ made you afraid to go into the water, ‘The Meg’ will make you scared to pay full-price for a movie ticket.
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The Darkest Minds plumbs the darkest depths of redundant filmmaking
Pick a story, any story, and it would be better than this story, which has already been told in far better films.
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Hot, bothered and desperately wanting
‘Hot Summer Nights’ creates a fable of first lust that feels authentic. It’s too bad that’s only half the movie.
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Blindspotting is woke as hell, and determined to open your eyes
Two lifelong friends create a masterpiece about life, love, violence and hope that transcends race to speak to the human inside us all.
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Denzel does his fans a great disservice with The Equalizer 2
It’s time to put the popular vigilante Robert McCall out to pasture, right after Hollywood gives anyone who buys a ticket to this listless, unnecessary sequel a refund.
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Skyscraper really, really wants to be Die Hard when it grows up.
Another month, another Dwayne Johnson movie — only this time he’s stuck trying to polish a towering turd into an enjoyable action movie.