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  • 3 weeks ago | yesweekly.com | Mark Burger

    In addition to its patented blend of showing big-budget Hollywood fare alongside independent and foreign films — as well as its various special events — Winston-Salem’s a/perture cinema will be presenting its first summer camp film series for children, titled “film a/ppreciation: an introduction to the art of cinema for Middle Schoolers.”The two-week-long summer camps are specifically designed for middle-school students (rising grades 6th-9th) and will be held July 14-18 and Aug.

  • 3 weeks ago | yesweekly.com | Mark Burger

    In Hollywood, nothing succeeds like excess, and when it comes to sequels, nothing exceeds like success. Therefore, it’s hardly a surprise that, having hit ratings paydirt with its original Fear Street trilogy, broadcast on successive weeks in 2021, Netflix would go the tried-and-true route with a fresh installment. Adapted from R.L. Stine’s 1992 novel The Prom Queen, Fear Street: Prom Queen doesn’t break new ground but it’s a class act in the slasher movie sweepstakes.

  • 3 weeks ago | yesweekly.com | Mark Burger

    PICK OF THE WEEK JASON X (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment Group): After the debacle of Jason Goes to Hell (see below) and with the long-anticipated Freddy vs. Jason (2003) stuck in development hell, New Line Cinema and executive producer/series creator Sean S. Cunningham decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Friday the 13th franchise by making a tenth installment, belatedly released in 2002.

  • 1 month ago | yesweekly.com | Mark Burger

    In their joint effort to make Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning the best in the lucrative franchise, producer/star Tom Cruise and producer/director Christopher McQuarrie have made the eighth outing the biggest and, with a 170-minute running time, the longest. But it’s not the best. Nor, for that matter, is it the worst.

  • 1 month ago | yesweekly.com | Mark Burger

    PICK OF THE WEEKKINGPIN (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): The Farrelly Brothers (Bobby and Peter) followed up their smash 1994 debut Dumb and Dumber with this outrageous 1996 sports comedy that stumbled at the box-office and earned mixed reviews, then rebounded on cable and home-video to become one of their best-remembered, most-loved films – which some (ahem) consider to be their best.

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