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Andrei Rublev Explained IMDB Top 250 Challenge

Taylor Holmes — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:11:18 +0000

Okay. Let’s do this. I’m about to start what might be the dumbest – or possibly the most rewarding thing I attempt on this site in the last 10 years. I am going to be watching every single film on the IMDB Top 250 list and writing about each one. I am going to do them in a random order… it’s going to be completely out of my control. In a word – fullon random. Why? Great question… I thought […]

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Tinsman Road Movie Ending Explained and Discussed

Taylor Holmes — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:24:49 +0000

I’m probably in the minority on this one… but I literally don’t care. I absolutely loved this movie by Robbie Banfitch. (Anyone happen to have his email address? I’d gnaw my own arm off to interview this guy.) So yeah, let’s talk about this guy. Because understanding who made this film is essential to understanding why the film works the way it works. Banfitch burst onto the indie horror scene in 2022 with The Outwaters, a psychedelic found footage nightmare […]

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Colony 2026 and That Crazy Ending Explained in Detail

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:23:11 +0000

I want to start by saying something that I think gets lost in a lot of the discourse around Colony: this is not Train to Busan. I know Yeon Sang-ho directed Train to Busan. I know you know that. But Colony is doing something fundamentally different from that film, and if you walk in expecting the same emotional architecture you are going to spend two hours being quietly confused about why this does not feel like that. Train to Busan […]

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The Invite Movie Family Tree The Play The Film and Every Remake

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:08:08 +0000

Okay. So remember at the end of my Invite writeup when I said I was going to watch every single adaptation of this play that exists? Yeah, welp, so now, a project of mine for the next month is well underway. Well, I started doing the homework, and it turns out the assignment is way bigger than I thought it was. I figured there were maybe seven(?) versions of this thing floating around the world. There might actually be closer […]

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The Invite Movie Olivia Wilde Solves This Locked Room Puzzle

Taylor Holmes — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:14:51 +0000

Closed box movies are my jam. Granted, generally they are more mindjobby than hilarious. More mind-fucks than intense life dramas. But still, I love a fantastically scripted closed box flick. Take for example the movie The Humans. That is 100% in this same veing… well, until it isn’t of course. Or 10×10, or Hippopotamus? Or or or or… Faults anyone? Hell! Or Tape?!? Or for the love of all that is good and holy?? Sanctuary? Huh? What about Sanctuary? Or […]

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10 Movies and 2 YouTube Rabbit Holes for Everyone Who Fell for The Backrooms

Taylor Holmes — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:53:48 +0000

Before you read another word of this: if Backrooms is still playing near you, go see the Everything Must Go cut. And before that — if you somehow haven’t already — go watch Kane Parsons’ original Backrooms YouTube series from the beginning. Not a recap video, not a “best moments” compilation. The actual thing, on his channel. The feature is a genuinely great expansion of what he built, but it’s built on top of that nine-minute short and everything he […]

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The Backrooms Everything Must Go Definitive Updated Backrooms Timeline

Taylor Holmes — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:33:37 +0000

by Taylor Holmes | July 3rd 2026 | Horror, Mind-Benders, Explainers Kane Parsons dropped 15 new minutes of The Backrooms into theaters today. Not a re-release. Not a director’s cut with a few extra beats sprinkled through. Fifteen minutes added on to the end of the film… post-credits… that Kane built himself, in Blender, in the exact aesthetic of the original YouTube series. I’ve been able to confirm that it was in fact Kane, solo, just like how he created […]

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Backrooms Just Got 15 Minutes Longer and Nobody Knows Why (Yet)

Taylor Holmes — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:21:02 +0000

Okay, so I wasn’t planning on writing about Backrooms again. I thought we were done. The movie came out, it made a genuinely absurd amount of money, I already told you what I thought of it, and I figured that was that. Then A24 decided “that was that” wasn’t good enough. Starting July 3, Backrooms is heading back into theaters under a new name — Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition — with somewhere between 15 and 16 minutes of brand […]

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Buffet Infinity Explained What’s Actually Happening in That Sinkhole

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:18:18 +0000

I absolutely love film makers that do something different… swing for the fence by coloring outside the lines. Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, just break the stereotypical Hollywood archetypal, and over used, mold. Well, today I discovered a movie that is so different, so weird, so original as to maybe collapse in under its own weight? Let me try to describe the experience of watching Buffet Infinity, because it’s unlike almost anything else you’ll […]

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