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The Exquisite Eeriness of Bird Horrors Part III: 'Cuckoo' (2024)

Bringing my series to a close with Tilman Singer’s deliciously deranged horror mystery that caws its way inside your head

Apr 23, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

Has the Time Come to Stop ‘Eating the Rich’?

Apple TV’s new cheeky comfort show, ‘Your Friends and Neighbors,’ offers a self-reflective and delightful alternative

Apr 11, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

Horror Aughts #8: 'Hostel' and The Chainsaw Politics of Comeuppance

In 2006, Eli Roth served up toxic masculinity and then gouged its eye out

Apr 4, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

How We Made Brands Out of Cancer and Mental Illness

Disease Debauchery: 'Apple Cider Vinegar'

Mar 27, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

‘Common Side Effects’ — A Psychedelic Delicacy

This world could use some healing

Mar 18, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

‘Companion’ Proves Humans Are Still More Intriguing and Sinister Than AI Can Ever Be

Or... at least for now

Feb 24, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

‘Mythic Quest’ S4: The Goofball Video Game Family Continues to Rip Jokes in Savage Fashion

Our adorable nerds, cynics, and narcissists are back to make fun of AI, sex, and each other

Jan 24, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

The Exquisite Eeriness of Bird Horrors Part II: 'Hatching' (2022)

Exploring further the themes of Bird Horrors in Hanna Bergholm’s unusual, deliciously gory, coming-of-age creature feature

Jan 9, 2025 • Akos Peterbencze

‘Disclaimer’ — Alfonso Cuarón Composed a Master Thriller Fuelled by Sex, Grief, and Revenge

The Mexican auteur’s first mini-series on Apple TV+ is a slick narrative puzzle, oozing with intrigue and depravity

Oct 4, 2024 • Akos Peterbencze

‘Rebel Ridge’ is a Fierce, if Overwritten, Mashup of ‘First Blood’ and ‘Cop Land’

Jeremy Saulnier continues to make intense and uncomfortably real cinema

Sep 10, 2024 • Akos Peterbencze

I Ate Your Heart and Felt Nothing — Ryan Murphy's 'Dahmer' is a Disturbing Series with Unfulfilled Potential

Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Aug 1, 2024 • Akos Peterbencze

Apple TV’s ‘Sunny’ Continues to Integrate Japanese Culture Into American TV

Humans, robots, and everything in between

Jul 19, 2024 • Akos Peterbencze

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