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HOT PRESS 3/16/26: Oscar-bate, Highway to Hell doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-31…

My post-Slamdance horror cleanse, for better or worse:

HOT PRESS 3/2/26: Slamdance ranking, Blood Barn, The Behemoth doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-32…

Slamdance In Review: Clovers, Matapanki, The Bulldogs doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-in…

Slamdance In Review: Santa Zeta, Snowland, Tony Odyssey doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-in…

In Slamdance Mode all week. Follow along, why don'tcha:

THE PROJECTIONIST: A lyrical ode to movies and a full-circle moment for director Alexandre Rockwell, who returns to the monochrome and crime textures of IN THE SOUP and delivers a career highlight for Vondie Curtis-Hall. From Slamdance, my review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-in…

Slamdance In Review: The Projectionist, House 4, The LeMieurs, BRB doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-in…

⏰Only 40 hours left to nab your copy! $10 for digital! $15 for print! $866 away from crushing Stretch Goal #3: a vinyl iron-on of our cat mascot for our physical book backers. Thx for spreading the word! We live to make/eat/rinse/repeat comics! kickstarter.com/projects/sxbon…

I don’t know who’s living the bigger lie: people who say the Eighties are dead or people who refuse to let it die. Either way, DEATH FIGHT FOREVER is here, coated in Saturday morning sugar, and unsurprisingly, it’s fun. My review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-23…

"When a [comic] attempts satire, the social commentary has to be calibrated just so. Any miscalculation lands you either in Didactic Land or Dullsville, where so-obvious-it-ain’t-funny comedies go to die. Here? We’re in Florida, baby -- keep up." doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-21…

My nimrod thoughts on that Dunk & Egg flashback and a wild new comic from Mad Cave Studios:

HOT PRESS 2/16/26: Dunk & Egg reactions, The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1 doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-21…

Tomorrow at @filmcenter: Sook-Yin Lee's heartfelt situationship rom-dramedy PAYING FOR IT, followed by a Q&A with the director and ogn creator Chester Brown moderated by critic Ray Pride. My review for @doomrocket_: doomrocket.substack.com/p/in-review-pr…

Luminous Keke Palmer notwithstanding, I did not enjoy THE 'BURBS, a streaming time-sink that strips away the interesting genre elements from Joe Dante's delightfully wacko movie and replaces them with chardonnay and kindness. Why was this over five hours long?

Get ready for Peacock's basic brunch revival of The ‘Burbs doomrocket.substack.com/p/get-ready-fo…

HOT PRESS 2/3/26: Wonder Man, Death Fight Forever #1 doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-23…

SHELTER: Statham's grizzled dad-warrior protects his found daughter from a rogue MI6. Reasonably entertaining, pretty dry. WORLDBREAKER: A generic post-apocalyptic drama that's better at drama than apocalypse, and deserves a sequel. More over at DoomRocket:

In Review: Shelter, Worldbreaker doomrocket.substack.com/p/in-review-sh…

Despite my ability to say “pretty please” quite well, I have once again been denied remote press access to the Sundance Film Festival. So, in lieu of review coverage, I wanted to highlight the five films from the fest that I’m most excited to see this year: