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Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites---whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!---in bite-sized articles perfect …
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Christmas Horror Anthology---the genre alone is enough to turn a few heads, and the stories in All the Creatures Were Stirring will have you stick around to see the film through to the end. The production is campy, the segments are gory, far fetched, and unreasonable---which is why I love basically everything about this film. I …
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Looks like we've recently gotten a new teaser trailer for Stranger Things Season 3, if you're a fan of the show you're probably similar to me in the fact that you're way too hyped about only half a minute of new information. That's cool though, because it still gives us cause to nerd out and …
“Buried Treasures” is a bi-weekly film series highlighting beloved films that have been either underseen or underappreciated. Every other week, one 25YL columnist will choose a film they think is deserving of additional praise and shine a spotlight on that film. The film chosen may be one that few have heard of, or maybe it …
Bohemian Rhapsody was released on November 2nd of this year and I'm going to break a few rules here by assuming you, my darling readers, have already gone out and seen this film. Even if you haven't, I feel like there is almost no way of me accidentally spoiling the show for you, since the …
The Other Side of the Wind, a film that took nearly 50 years to piece together, is currently streaming on Netflix. That sentence alone would be enough to make the man that made the film look at you cross-eyed, and unless you're previously acquainted with Orson Welles' work, life, and turbulent relationship with Hollywood, hearing that …
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I saw one trailer for Summer of 84, immediately I knew I was going to watch the hell out of this movie and that was even before I knew Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell directed the film---the same directors that brought us Turbo Kid in 2015. Summer of 84 follows 15 year old …
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews…you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites---whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever!---in bite-sized articles perfect …
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch follows Dr. Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), who is trying to find out why her father---who was brought into Challis’ hospital at the beginning of the film---was murdered by a man who promptly went out to his car and lit himself on fire (causing one of …
The Shape/Michael Myers is the psychotic subject of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s infamous 1978 babysitter-come-heroine tale, Halloween. The film is iconic in nearly every facet of cinematic culture, from its claustrophobic camera work that induces anxiety and the feeling of being stalked for the audience, to the universally known score (that only took John Carpenter …