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‘Guns Akimbo’ is a big, ballsy instant cult classic
The movie never pumps the brakes once it takes off.
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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‘The Invisible Man’ taps real-world horror and will scare the shit out of you
But it should come with a trigger warning.
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Tampa filmmaker Maurice Jovan looks for laughs and commercial success with ‘W.D.E.D. Dead in the Morning’
The local radio personality admits he was conflicted about making a comedy instead of a straight horror movie.
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Ant Timpson’s ‘Come to Daddy’ is your worst millennial nightmare brought to life
Whatever you do, just don’t stare too long at Elijah Wood’s hipster mustache.
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‘Camp Cold Brook’ is another movie about idiots going into the woods to prove that monsters are real
Nothing original or exciting enough on display here to warrant a watch.
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The eight best monster and mutant movies hitting Tampa Bay theaters this spring
Be warned, monsters, mutants and femme fatales are on the way.
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Monster romance movie ‘After Midnight’ will affect you to the core
Florida filmmakers Christian Stella and Jeremy Gardner made one of the best films of its kind you will ever see.
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A Joker-less Harley Quinn spins comic book gold in ‘Birds of Prey’
Be prepared to cheer the first superhero film to confront and destroy toxic male attitudes toward female characters.
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Blake Lively’s evolution as an actor makes ‘The Rhythm Section’ wholly worth your time
It may not be action-packed, or original, but it’s entertaining to watch.
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Nicolas Cage is bath salts-bonkers in the cosmic ‘Color Out of Space’
Lovecraft would appreciate this.
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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence make ‘Bad Boys for Life’ the threequel you hoped for and expected
The final hour is vintage ‘Bad Boys,’ with jokes and bullets flying in equal measure.
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Guy Pearce shoots to kill his career in ‘Disturbing the Peace’
If you love bad movies, meet your new holy grail.
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Occult thriller ‘The Sonata’ fails to generate proper scares
Longtime Rutger Hauer fans will want to check out the film for his small role, one of the last projects he completed before his death.
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‘Underwater’ is exactly what you expect, and want, from a deep-sea creature feature
Hell yes, I’ll watch Kristen Stewart battle a Cthulhu-like monster at the bottom of the ocean.
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Hands down, ‘1917’ is the most impressive war movie ever filmed
It’s just so damn impressive.
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‘Jurassic World LIVE’ is bringing nearly two-dozen animatronic dinos to Amalie Arena
“It starts on the day that “Jurassic World” falls, when Indominus Rex gets loose, and ends three months before “Fallen Kingdom” begins.
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‘Aladdin’ at Tampa’s Straz succeeds thanks to its magic carpet and Iago’s delicious snark
The Disney musical plays it completely safe, but still should delight families through early January.
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‘Cats’ is easily the worst film of 2019
This movie is so bad that you might swear off pussy for life.
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The Soska Sisters’ new film ‘Rabid’ redefines body horror for the next generation
Excuse me while I pump my fist like a true film geek.
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Tampa’s annual Hallucination Before Christmas music festival preps a two-day takeover
The country’s biggest and brightest EDM artists will take over The Castle next weekend.