If Mister Hitchcock never met Mrs. Hitchcock, then we wouldn’t have Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980). Between its ill-fated leading lady and its cross-dressing serial killer with dissociative identity disorder, Dressed to Kill…
Hunter Goddard
Hunter Goddard
Hunter Goddard is a staff writer at MovieBabble. A graduate from Colorado State University with a major in publication journalism and a minor in film theory, he has earned recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists and Writer's Digest for his writing. To read more of his work, check out HunterGoddard.Com.
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With Black Lives Matter protests rioting all across the world against the American police state, systemic abuses of power have displaced the global COVID-19 pandemic as our most pressing topic of conversation. Truth be told, it has…
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High school reporter Rachel Bhargava (Geraldine Viswanathan) is photocopying financial records from her district’s archives when she notices water dripping from the ceiling. She’s working on a story about a skywalk her superintendent, Doctor Frank…
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Without Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), the world never would have experienced some of the greatest films ever made. Released the year after Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind (1939), this Selznick International Pictures-produced romantic psychological thriller had some big…
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‘Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City’ Translates Into a Below Average Neo-Noir
Daniel Calparsoro’s Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2020) is a Spanish thriller on Netflix, and so it was composed with the World Wide Web in mind for its target demographic. However, this is…
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“Only one is a wanderer. Two together are always going somewhere.” Located at the intersection between mental illness and young love, Brett Haley’s All the Bright Places (2020) will be worth a visit from any fans of…
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“Someone’s always watching…” Such is the tagline for The Night Clerk (2020), the straight-to-home-rental crime drama from Michael Cristofer. Weaving the yarn of a voyeuristic everyman desperate to prove his innocence, it emulates Sir Alfred…
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Capitalizing off the CGI technology available to it during this age of digital filmmaking, Jeff Fowler’s Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) could have been a dream come true for younger fans of Sega as well as…
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Similar to its leading lady, Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (2020) was dealt a shit hand. David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016) is a music video masquerading as a feature film, a two-hour movie trailer full of undeliverable promises. And…
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Where were you the day you fell out of love with Taylor Swift? Was it when she dropped Red in 2012? After all, the follow-up to her best album, 2010’s Speak Now, is a transition…
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“What’s your favorite scary movie?” For many, it is Wes Craven’s Scream (1996). The slasher film ranks among the greatest fright fests of all time, according to Empire. Lightning struck twice for Craven’s own Scream 2…