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VICTORIAN PSYCHO MOVIE REVIEW The director of Sanctuary is back with another seriously weird little horror film, Victorian Psycho. Maika Monroe (It Follows) plays Winifred Notty, a new governess at the remote and huge Ensor house for the wealthy Lamb family. The mom (Ruth Wilson) doesn’t like her because she thinks she’s screwing her husband. […]

THE YETI MOVIE REVIEW Pack your parka, grab a rifle, and for the love of God, stop following the enormous footprints. Set in 1947, The Yeti sends Ellie Bannister (Brittany Allen) and Merriell Sunday Jr. (Eric Nelsen) into the frozen wilderness of northern Alaska after the vanishing of their fathers, famed adventurer Hollis Bannister (William […]

THE WHISPER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Widowed crime writer Tom Kennedy (Adam Scott) is thrown into every parent’s nightmare when his young son Jake is abducted. Desperate for answers, Tom turns to his estranged father, retired detective Pete Willis (Robert De Niro), whose past may hold the key: decades earlier, Pete captured notorious child killer Frank […]

WILD HORSE NINE MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Martin McDonagh has become one of our ‘never misses’ creatives. Since moving from stage to screen in 2008 masterfully with In Bruges, he’s made one delightfully dialogued film after another. This year at Fantastic Fest we got to see his latest work of hysterical somberness, Wild Horse Nine, and […]

BEWARE BOIÚNA MOVIE REVIEW I am not sure anyone was clamoring for another film about folks traipsing around the Amazon who are set upon by a giant killer snake, but here’s Beware Boiúna to take up that space anyway. The second film we saw at this year’s Fantastic Fest is directed by Mike P. Nelson, […]

RESIDENT EVIL MOVIE REVIEW There have been seven Resident Evil live action film adaptations. SEVEN. That’s not even counting a whole slew of animated film ones to boot. So why can’t anyone translate the terrifying and legendary game series into a film that works on a level past ‘campy’ or ‘the director just wants to […]

THE WEIGHT MOVIE REVIEW Long time producer and editor Padraic McKinley (The Good Lord Bird) makes his directorial debut in The Weight, a new thriller set during the height of the Great Depression. Ethan Hawk plays Samuel Murphy, an unemployed widower with a young daughter, Penny (Ava Berry). When Samuel is wrongfully imprisoned, he’s sentenced […]

SAMURAI BALLERINA MOVIE REVIEW Ah, Paris! The City of Light. Where everyone starts the day with seven-foot-tall baguettes consumed with wine, and if you don’t work as a painter, professional lover, or mime, you seriously must rethink your life, you traitor to the Republic! Set in 1912, Fujiko, a young woman from a wealthy Japanese […]

LUCY LOST MOVIE REVIEW She doesn’t speak. She doesn’t remember her past. Yet somehow, she can see more than anyone else. Lucy is a mysterious girl living on a remote island in the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall. Raised by a humble fishing family, she is the town’s outcast, accused of witchcraft […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: DIRE DUPLICITY This week, the boys attempt to make sense of Neil Breen’s latest cinematic fever dream! Joined by Martin Thomas from Double Toasted, they try to unravel a story they think involves international cyber attacks and political assassinations, but honestly your guess is as good as theirs. Fighter jets, horses, […]

NECROMANCER EP.148 – NORWAY TO LIVE: THE UGLY STEPSISTER The necromancers don’t care who you are, where you’re from, what you did, Oslo, as you love us. Bret and Shira do indeed love the capital and rest of Norway too, despite the chilly reception upon their arrival at the crumbling fairytale castle of Bret’s horror […]

PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 MOVIE REVIEW After 28 years, you would think that a beloved cult classic like Practical Magic would receive a worthy follow up but such is the curse of the…legacy sequel! Practical Magic 2 initially starts after the sudden death of Gary (Aiden Quinn’s character from the original) where Sally (Sandra Bullock) makes […]

THE VIOLINIST MOVIE REVIEW The only greater thing then creating music, is creating it with a dear friend… and then World War II shows up to ruin everything. Set in 1930s Singapore, The Violinist follows Fei and Kai, two childhood friends who share a love for music and dream of becoming world-class violinists. But when […]

MAYDAY MOVIE REVIEW Mayday is a retro 80’s-style buddy action-comedy set during the waning days of the Soviet Union. Ryan Reynolds plays Lt. Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a US Navy pilot assigned to a black ops spy mission over a remote Soviet facility. Unfortunately for Troy, his plane is shot down, and he finds himself stranded […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 383: WHY DON’T YOU GUYS JUST MARRY REACHER ALREADY? Chris and Wright eat gummies, drink scotch, and review physical media movies and tv shows. And they’re all out of gummies. Wait, no, there’s a huge bag. Ok, the gummy crisis is over, people, stand down. But turn up your volume to hear […]

HOPE MOVIE REVIEW South Korea’s film industry has been unpredictable and kind of amazing at points, especially with some of their genre offerings. One of the best giant monster films of the last 20 years, The Host, showed they know how to deliver rampaging beastie cinema. Now with Hope, another bizarre creature is wreaking death […]

MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN SEASON 3 REVIEW Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a lot of anime references!? Season three of My Adventures with Superman stars Jack Quaid as the titular character, Superman! After saving the world from an evil alien invasion led by the methodically apathetic dictator Brainiac, […]

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 9 REVIEW Thirteen years after it launched into our pop culture, the adventures of the maddest of scientists and his family returns for another ten episodes of interdimensional hijinks and existential dread. Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth, and Jerry stumble through sentient technology, memory wipes, evolutionary nightmares, family trauma, questionable alien substances, […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: BONUS EP.4 – THE THREE MUSKETEERS/THE FOUR MUSKETEERS For our final bonus episode, we’re ending the summer by revisiting Faye in all her villainous glory in 1973’s The Three Musketeers and its unexpected sequel, 1974’s The Four Musketeers. Based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, the classic tale tells the story of […]

GATTO WORK IN PROGRESS REVIEW What the–? The new Pixar movie is already out?! Not quite! One of the great things about the Annecy Film Festival is getting to see Work in Progress presentations for upcoming features, with directors and artists sharing their secrets, progress, and the development behind their projects. Set in Venice, Gatto […]

THE SUN NEVER SETS MOVIE REVIEW During the summer time in some parts of Alaska, there are more than 15 hours of direct daylight. You might even say, much like the title of this new IFC release,  that The Sun Never Sets. Wendy (Dakota Fanning) loves camping, taking long hikes, breathing in the fresh air, […]

ALLEY CATS SERIES REVIEW Hold the chicken and toss out the liver. These cats don’t eat the domesticated posh cat food but do deliver comedy in casual conversation with little nuggets of wisdom. Netflix presents a six episode animated mini series about five cats and one kitten shoot’n the shit with the voices of English […]

NECROMANCER EP.147 – A PERFECT GETAWAY The necromancers take a ghoul’s trip with Nathan Flynn to Hawaii for his horror pick, A Perfect Getaway (2009). Will Bret and Shira’s pupils remain a normal size or have they not yet seen the craziest thing that could happen to Steve Zahn on a Hawaiian vacation? Listen to […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 382: RIP TIM CURRY Chris and Wright want to note that this episode, covering a wonderful doc about the history of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, was recorded before the death of lead actor Tim Curry. Otherwise you can bet we would have been talking about what an absolute treasure that man […]

CAMP ROCK 3 MOVIE REVIEW Everyone remembers their first rock concert because everyone remembers their first time dreaming of being under those bright stage lights with thousands of voices screaming your name. With your guitar and best buds on stage with you, your job would be to teach the world how to rock! Disney Plus […]