Film Studies

The third and final episode in the Fear Street trilogy. This time we’re transported back to 1666 and the story of Sarah Feir unfolds. She’s accused of being a witch and infecting the town with rotten food and general yuckiness. But there’s something more sinister going on and it will have a huge affect on the future.

Sarah Fier’s curse isn’t just in the 1990s, it’s been going on for a while. This movie takes a look at the events of the Camp Nightwing Massacre from 1978. Campers from Sunnyvale and Shadyside are involved in a Colour War but there’s something more sinister lurking around camp that could end it all sooner rather than later . . . . or someone.

This series is less “retro” but heavy on the spook. This 2021 Netflix series is a three-parter that all relates to and back to itself as the series goes on. We start with the first of the series “1994” where a Skull Mask Killer is the just the start to another in a long line of mass muders haunting the cursed town of Shadyside.

Venom Let There Be Carnage is the second of the Sony produced Venom-centric movies. This time, serial killer Cletus Kasady and his one true love, Frances Barrison (aka Shriek) wreak havoc with the help of another alien symbiote named Carnage. It’s up to Eddie Brock and Venom to stop them. If they can stop their lovers’ quarrel.

This week, we’re talking Marvel’s Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. But we also discuss a lot of other movies and movie news that came out this week. Check out the time codes for the parts you want to listen to most. 00:00:44 – Marvel’s What If? 00:08:12 – Spider-Man No Way Home Trailer 00:15:39 – Vacation Friends 00:18:53 – Matrix 4 Trailer 00:22:00 – Worth 00:24 00 – Escape Room 2 – Tou...

Two movies this week. First, Mark checked out Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. It’s a martial arts heavy, family-centric (Fast and Furious style not Disney style) origin story of the Joe known only as Snake Eyes. Then, we both took a look at the Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy. It’s the story of a video game NPC who tries to something more with his life.

Catching up time again. This time three of the biggest blockbusters of the summer! First, we’ll start with the latest in the saga of Dom and Friends with F9! Then, we’re heading to N0t-Cuba to follow the adventures – or should I say “misadventures” – of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. Finally, we’re off to Brazil with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney’s Jungle Cruise!

With so many movies coming out in rapid-fire fashion, we had to jam pack 5 movies into one review. First, Nicholas Cage is a truffle farmer whose pig has been kidnapped. Then, The Purge returns but some people don’t want it to end. From there, we go courts-side with Lebron James in Space Jam 2: A New Legacy. Then, Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson team up with Selma Hayek in The Hitman’s Wife’s...

30 years in the future, aliens take over the Earth and decimate the world’s human population to mere thousands. So they’ve come back in time to get more soldiers. Chris Pratt is a teacher and former military man is drafted and finds out the secret to end the war. But is there enough time?

After a year-long postponing, the MCU finally continues with Black Widow. It’s the backstory of Marvel’s under-celebrated cornerstone. Natasha finds out that the Red Room is still active and churning out more Widows and she needs to shut it down.

This week is a double feature. First, Steven Soderbergh directs a mind-bending mystery surrounding a heist, criminals, and the police. An important document is the trophy at the center of huge game of betrayal before betrayal. Only in the end will the truth be revealed. Secondly, we finally get a chance to take a look at the long-awaited sequel A Quiet Place Part 2. Emily Blunt stars as a mother w...

Well, it’s been decades since John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw, died and now there’s a copycat killer on the loose. It’s up to Detective Zeke Banks to solve the mystery but he’s not well liked by the cops in his precinct and the killer could be someone he knows. Pushed back from 2019, this movie set the Saw franchise over the $1 billion mark but is it good? We’ll tell you!

Zack Snyder wow’d audiences with his cut of Justice League earlier this year. Now, Netflix brings you his follow up to his 2004 Dawn of the Dead. He wrote it, directed it, and even did his own cinematography. Las Vegas has been overrun with zombies and the President is going to nuke it in three days’ time. A rich casino owner has money stored in a vault and sends a rag-tag group of mercenaries to...

Every generation, there is a tournament that determines the fate of the realms. Outworld has won 9 in a row and one more victory will gain them control over Earth Realm. Lord Raiden must gather Earth’s champions to defend it against Shang Tsung and his band of villains.

Hutch Mansell is a regular man living his regular life with his regular family in a regular neighbourhood. But when his house is robbed and his daughter’s kitty cat bracelet, it awakens a buried persona inside him and sets off a chain of events leading to Hutch taking on the Russian mob one-on-hundreds.

Godzilla is fresh off his victory over King Giddorah and the other monsters. Kong has cleared Skull Island of Skull Crushers. Now, only two Titans remain. And something has to give! But along comes the humans to throw a wrench into everything. They need Kong to lead them to a new power source in the Hollow Earth but Godzilla isn’t ready to give up his long-term rival!

Well, it’s finally here. Zack Snyder’s #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign results in a four-hour epic movie filled with Norwegians singing the praises of Aquaman, Lois walking in slow-motion, the before-Heros kicking the crap out of Darkseid, and Superman no-longer making the rest of the Justice League looking like bitches.

Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Costas Mandylor, and C.J. “Lana” Perry from the WWE in a movie about having to kill aliens before they destroy the human race. Should be an easy slam dunk entertaining action/sci-fi movie. Yep, it should have been.

A paranormal investigation themed YouTube channel called “Scientist vs Skeptic” gains the last opportunity to explore a closed and reportedly haunted prison. The team of four spends the night along with a prison guard as their guide and soon ghostly figures appear and paranormal events begin to happen. But there’s more than just a ghost haunting a prison, there’s a revelation of a murder than neve...

Nicholas Cage plays silent “The Janitor”, a man whose car got a mysterious flat tire in a podunk town. He’s offered free repairs if he cleans a kiddie restaurant that was closed due to dark and violent past. Soon, he facing off against eight animatronic creatures that come to life at night. Oh and there are some teenagers who are dead-meats too.

It’s our annual look back at the year in movies. But what a year it was. Movie theatres shut down, movies being delayed until the following year, and even movie studios bypassing theatres altogether and releasing movies on streaming services. We made our picks for the best and worst from 2020 and some of the choices surprised even us!

The first and only big studio superhero movie to be released in 2020 (if you don’t count Birds of Prey, which you shouldn’t because they are technically villains) is Wonder Woman 84. It has been delayed multiple times but Warner Bros and DC wish that this movie will be the big hit of 2020. Too bad they don’t have their own a wishing Infinity Stone…

Millie was a normal everyday high school girl when she is stabbed by a local serial killer with a magic knife causing them to switch bodies. Now, she has 24 hours to re-stab herself or else they were still in their new bodies forever. The body count is rising, time is running out, and the killer is dressing better in Millie’s body than she ever has. We’ve checked out this latest 2020 release and g...

Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bender was supposed to bring the theatres new life in the pandemic world of 2020. Alas, it didn’t quite live up to it’s hype in the theatres. Why? Well, we took a look at the movie and we try to suss out whether it was the movie or the pandemic keeping audiences at home.

The economic downturn that the rest of America is experiencing, is affecting Santa Claus as well. More and more kids are ending up on the naughty list leading to less presents being given out which means Santa’s stimulus checks are declining in amount. When one deplorable rich brat receives a lump of coal for Christmas, he calls for his hitman to take out one target: The Fatman.