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The Substance - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Every year at the Cannes Film Festival in France, filmmakers, critics and movie lovers from across the globe gather to revel in the art form that is cinema, the motion picture. At the conclusion they give out awards, somewhat similar to the Oscars. This year one of the films that was nominated for the festival’s top prize of Palme d’Or and won the Best Screenplay award was the new film The Substance, from writer/director Coralie Fargeat. From the same mind that brought us Revenge (2017), her new film is just hitting theatres and delves deep into the same vein of body horror as, say, the French film Titane from Julia Docournau a few years ago. Now if you thought that film was sexy, twisted, disturbing, and probably perverse, Fargeat essentially told Docournau, “Hold my beer.” Nothing that I say or explain about this movie can really prepare you adequately for what you will behold when you enter the the...

Alien Romulus - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 9 of 10 This summer has been chock full of films from already established IP’s. Despicable Me 4, Inside Out 2, Twisters, Deadpool and the list goes on and on. Some of these films were serviceable and provided some entertainment value in their own right. Others were an absolute slog to get through with very few of them being creatively executed. Furiosa probably being the one solid exception. Well we finally got an interesting prequel-sequel, depending on which aspect of the franchise you approach it from, with the new Alien Romulus film. It utilizes many of the elements from the franchise in new and inventive ways that was not only tension inducing but also felt very fresh and original. Where most of these other summer films seemed very copy and paste in their approach to telling their story, Romulus seemed more interested in reinventing itself, even with the overall narrative being not too dissimilar from th...