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28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE MOVIE REVIEW It’s 28 years after the 28 weeks after the 28 days later and The Bone Temple picks up right where 2025’s 28 Years Later left off, making it the first direct sequel in this franchise of post-apocalyptic ‘infected’ horror films. We find that Spike (Alfie Williams) has […]

WEAPONS MOVIE REVIEW Weapons has one of the most intriguing premises in recent memory. At 2:17am in Maybrook, seventeen children in the same class leave their homes and vanish in the middle of the night. Not only does Zach Cregger’s newest film sets up the audience for a mysterious and haunting story, but then reveals […]

BRING HER BACK MOVIE REVIEW The Philippou brothers, who brought us one of the biggest horror surprises of 2023 with their debut film Talk to Me, return with a considerably more sinister and mature second film. Bring Her Back follows step-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and his mostly blind sister Piper (Sora Wong). Their father suddenly […]

FRIENDSHIP MOVIE REVIEW So, this is why men shouldn’t have friends. Friendship is the new film by Andrew DeYoung starring the ever chaotic Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in an absurdist comedy that delves into the nightmare territory of a metaphorical (and occasionally literal) sandbox and just let them weird each other out for 90 […]

LAST BREATH MOVIE REVIEW In 2012, a diving accident during repairs of oil lines in the North Sea led to a daring rescue of a trapped diver without heat, light, or air. In 2019 director Alex Parkinson released a documentary about the incident. In 2022, he got Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, and Finn Cole to […]

WOLF MAN MOVIE REVIEW The early excitement over the new Wolf Man movie had less to do with there being a new reboot of the Universal classic monster, The Wolf Man, and more with the writer/director Leigh Whannell. As a writer he created the Saw and Insidious franchises with James Wan. As a director, he […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: THE KISS Get ready to lose your head over an escalator! Alan Galinsky joins us for a movie that can’t decide if it’s about voodoo, parasites, or vaguely European lesbian incest. Come for the rubber cat puppet and stay for the most shocking “Recycling” segment we’ve ever had. We watched 1988’s […]

Smile 2 Movie Review The saying “a smile is worth a thousand words” doesn’t even begin to describe the horror in Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 hit Smile. Smile 2 takes place 6 days after where the last film left us and we’re following the lone survivor of the Smile entity, Joel (Kyle Gallner). […]

MY OLD ASS MOVIE REVIEW Elliott (Maisy Stella) has grown up in a beautiful lakeside town with her family, who grow cranberries there for a living. While there had been some expectation that she would continue on in the family business at some point, she has since made clear that she has no interest. Soon […]

THE FRONT ROOM MOVIE REVIEW Don’t you just hate it when the in-laws move in? In The Front Door, this Mother-In-Law (Kathryn Hunter) is one straight from Hell. First time Directors, Max and Sam Eggers, have produced a film that at first glance appears to be another taut horror flick released by their brother’s (Robert […]

HIT MAN MOVIE REVIEW Director Richard Linklater is a director who pretty much always turns out a good film, even if it’s not terribly populist entertainment. Hit Man certainly isn’t for the kids, but it’s surprising that Netflix buried its theatrical run considering how endearing the film really is, not to mention the star vehicle […]

BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE MOVIE REVIEW The bad boys return for this fourth movie (shouldn’t they have saved “for life” for this one) from the same director/writers as the previous entry. This time, Mike (Will Smith) is tying the knot with the beautiful Christine (Melanie Liburd) and it’s a lovely wedding except that Marcus […]

THE FALL GUY MOVIE REVIEW While the track record for adapting really old tv shows into feature films has been…mixed, to say the least, director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, John Wick) taking on The Fall Guy, which centered around a Hollywood stuntman, seems like a match made in heaven. Ryan Gosling plays Colt Seavers, the […]

THE IDEA OF YOU MOVIE REVIEW Anne Hathaway at 40. Man, do I feel old. Not as old as she feels though in the Amazon Prime Video movie The Idea of You. Anne plays single mom Solène. She splits time taking care of her teen daughter Izzy with her ex-husband while also running an art […]

GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE MOVIE REVIEW This new film in the monsterverse continues the story from the last film where Godzilla was VS Kong instead of X Kong (which we’re still not sure what the x is specifically supposed to mean as they never multiply them by each other). To be clear, this […]

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS MOVIE REVIEW What do you do if you’re in the middle of a road trip in a rental (or a ‘drive-away’ in this case) and discover that hidden in your car is some bizarre contraband and some real bad dudes are after you to get it? If you’re Jamie and Marian, apparently you […]

I.S.S. MOVIE REVIEW A group of astronauts and cosmonauts are working together in friendship (and in some cases, more than that) aboard the International Space Station when WWIII between Russia and America breaks out on Earth. The leader of each team gets a private message, ‘Secure the I.S.S. by any means necessary’. Now THAT’S a […]

NIGHT SWIM MOVIE REVIEW Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) is a former pro baseball player who has been forced to retire because of illness. His wife Eve (Kerry Condon) isn’t completely upset because they’ve always been forced to move a lot because of his career and now they can settle down and grow roots. Finding a […]

MAESTRO MOVIE REVIEW Bradley Cooper is back behind and in front of the lens with his 2nd feature film with Maestro. Maestro tells the story of conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein’s rise as one of the most prominent conductors in the world while it chronicles his lifelong relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. The film beautifully […]

SILENT NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW It’s hard to believe but it’s been 20 years since Hong Kong action maestro John Woo directed a Hollywood film. While Woo retains his taste for melodrama, his latest bullet ballet trades in his usual operatic flair for a grittier, more grounded approach to violence. Shot in Mexico City on a […]

DUMB MONEY MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like seeing the little guy take on the big guys and land some punches. In this case, a small investor vs Wall Street in the true story (from, like, two years ago) where a social media influencer nicknamed Roaring Kitty (Paul Dano) started getting frustrated with the big money firms […]

A HAUNTING IN VENICE MOVIE REVIEW Poirot is tired. And I don’t mean because of the last two Kenneth Branagh starring/directed films being so blah. I mean, in this third installment of his adaptations starring Agatha Christie’s famous detective character, he’s hung up his magnifying glass. Hidden away in Venice and refusing to accept any […]

THE BLACKENING MOVIE REVIEW The tag line for this new horror comedy reads “They can’t all die first”. Because it’s a (largely) all-black cast and the trope is that the black people always die first. Just in case you were out of the 30-year old oft-repeated loop. This is the tone for a new horror […]

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS MOVIE REVIEW It’s time to ROLLOUT for the 7th entry in the Transformers franchise! Steven Caple Jr, director of Creed 2, takes us to 1994 where we find the Autobots lying dormant until an ancient artifact sends out a beacon to not only our heroes but to an evil faction […]

THE BOOGEYMAN MOVIE REVIEW So, there are a LOT of movies and shorts that have gone by the title “The Boogeyman” or at least have “Boogeyman” in the title. It’s gotta be one of the dumbest sounding words for one of the most ubiquitous descriptors of the thing that hides in the night, in the […]