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The South by Southwest Film Festival has always been a welcoming platform for horror directors. It’s a city with a personality that’s proudly just a bit left of center, and genre filmmakers typically embrace that cultural viewpoint. There’s a reason the notable genre fest Fantastic Fest is here too. And so I’m always a bit…

If I could look at some sort of historical record of how many hours I’ve played Tetris—all the way back to its iteration on the Nintendo GameBoy through its many imitators—I would probably faint at the lost productivity. There’s something so addictive about Tetris. It gets under your skin; you just want to play one…

In terms of horror franchises, “Evil Dead” has accomplished something miraculous: There has yet to be a bad movie bearing its name. Much of this comes down to series creator Sam Raimi, who’s picky enough about who he lets play with his groovy blood-soaked baby that there have only been five “Evil Dead” movies over…

Three years ago, a 2011 movie by screenwriter Scott Z. Burns saw an unprecedented increase in popularity. That movie, “Contagion,” imagined a fictional global pandemic where the CDC works to find a cure. The similarities between the fictional pandemic in “Contagion” and our own battle with COVID-19 were a little eerie, but audiences found comfort…