HeyJaredChris Klimek
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Primetime: To Catch a Predator’s Lurid and Unsettling Send-Up (opens the original)
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The new thriller Primetime is a queasy portrait of a deviant sociopath who in the view of director Lance Oppenheim represents a clear and present danger to the public. That sociopath is Chris Hansen. Hansen is a former Dateline NBC personality best known for his 2004-07 series To Catch a Predator, a candid-camera show wherein he would confront would-be pedophiles lured into his trap by the promise of sex with a minor. These “decoys” were adult actors posing as underage victims-in-waiting. The st
Onslaught Dares You to Survive the Night (opens the original)
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“It is tempting,” the psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote, “if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” And if your favorite filmmaker is John Carpenter, the synthesizer-playing low-budget auteur of Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Escape from New York, and a half dozen other VHS-era classics, your homage movie shall necessarily look like Onslaught, director Adam Wingard’s loud, lurid, and stylish siege flick set in a New Mexico trailer park. At a pithy 92 m
I Have Bad News About The Dog Stars’ Dog Star (opens the original)
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Here’s a fun fact I uncovered a few years ago while writing an advance obituary for Ridley Scott, the now-88-year-old director of the sci-fi touchstones Alien and Blade Runner, and of the critically lauded but still crowd-pleasing hits Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, and The Martian: The dude has made more movies since his 65th birthday than Stanley Kubrick, who died at 70, made in his entire career. Scott’s new one, a handsome but unmemorable adaptation of Peter Heller’s 2012 postapocalyptic novel
Mutiny Dares to Ask: What If Plane, But on a Boat? (opens the original)
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Die Hard had such a seismic impact on the action-adventure genre that for the last 11 years of the fading century almost every pitch for a new shoot-’em-up took the form of “Die Hard on a ____.” The Die Hard series, meanwhile, abandoned its compressed-setting gimmick immediately, expanding its canvas in the sequels to Dulles Airport (unconvincingly portrayed by Denver’s now-demolished Stapleton International), New York City, the mid-Atlantic, and … Rus
The End of Oak Street Wants to Party Like It’s 1982 (opens the original)
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The End of Oak Street is set in the Year of Our Lord 1982 A.D., concurrent with a genre movie renaissance so profound and consequential that critic Chris Nashawaty wrote a very good book about it more than four decades later. Since there’s no particular story reason for this flick about a suburban Michigan neighborhood getting wormholed hundreds of millions years into the past to open as a period piece, I can only infer that writer-director David Robert Mitchell chose 1982 to acknowledge his sly
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