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THEY WILL KILL YOU MOVIE REVIEW Russian writer/director Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) is continuing on with his actiony weirdness wearing its influences on its sleeve with They Will Kill You. Zazie Beetz plays Asia Reeves, a woman who ten years ago was on the run with her little sister trying to protect […]

MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE MOVIE REVIEW Writer director BenDavid Grabinski steps into the spotlight with the soft sci-fi crime caper Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. Not to be confused with the 1969 rom-dram Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Grabinski’s film takes place over the course of one tumultuous […]

BUDDY MOVIE REVIEW “It’s Buddy” is an older children’s tv show centered around a lovable orange unicorn who lives in a clubhouse with lots of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse style anthropomorphic friends (the mailbox, the couch, a child’s backpack, etc). A group of human children sing with and learn lessons from Buddy. Only, sometimes one of them […]

KILL ME MOVIE REVIEW Jimmy (Charlie Day) wakes up in his bathtub, filled with his own blood from his slashed wrists. He manages to call a 911 dispatcher named Margot (Allison Williams) who sends in paramedics to save his life. His family (Aya Cash and Jessica Harper) gather around him in his hospital room; this […]

BEAST RACE MOVIE REVIEW The director of the legendary City of God returns for his first Portuguese language film since that one, teaming up with two other directors for Beast Race. Set in a post-climate disaster Rio de Janeiro, the city has come under the control of the very rich who host a violent race […]

I LOVE BOOSTERS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Boots Riley made his bizarre debut in 2018 with the enormously popular Sorry to Bother You. There’s been much anticipation for his second film I Love Boosters and for fans of his socialist surrealism there’s plenty to like here. Keke Palmer plays Corvette, the leader of a group of […]

NORMAL MOVIE REVIEW A decade ago if you told me that Bob Odenkirk was going to have a rebirth as a brutal action movies star, I would have assumed you were talking about a Mr. Show sketch that I must have forgotten about. But here we are, first with the Nobody series, and now he […]

HOKUM MOVIE REVIEW While Irish director Damian McCarthy is a big name in the serious horror fan community, especially after two fantastic films Caveat (2020) and Oddity (2024), his latest film Hokum that premiered at SXSW might just be the one to break him wide. Adam Scott plays Ohm, a successful author on a trip […]

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY MOVIE REVIEW If you never got to see the 2021 Norwegian film The Trip, you missed out on a crazy, bloody, constantly surprising good time of an action, horror, comedy film. While you can still find it on Netflix, now we’ve got the American remake Over Your Dead Body. And you […]

PRETTY LETHAL MOVIE REVIEW A troupe of ballerinas who are having trouble working together effectively somehow still get invited to a prestigious competition in Hungary. When their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they find a giant hotel to give them shelter. The place is run by a former ballerina, Devora (Uma Thurman) […]

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME MOVIE REVIEW This sequel to the successful 2019 horror comedy begins exactly where the first one ended: Grace (Samara Weaving) having a smoke after having completely smoked her new in-laws. But a power vacuum has been created by the elimination of this rich clan, and other wealthy clans […]

WATCHER MOVIE REVIEW Maika Monroe plays Julia, an American woman married to Francis (Karl Glusman) and they’ve just moved to Bucharest together. He speaks the language and understands the culture and she does not. He’s gone most days for work and she feels isolated in their apartment, but when she starts to notice someone staring […]

THE CELLAR MOVIE REVIEW Ancient mansions in Ireland I suspect hold all kind of secrets as a general rule. That being said, usually you can’t just completely disappear in them and get caught in an alternate hell dimension. But Keira’s teen daughter Ellie manages it early on in this new horror film The Cellar. Elisha […]

THE BLIND MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO SEE TITANIC MOVIE REVIEW This little film with a big title hails from Finland and the story behind the story is as moving and heartbreaking as the film itself. Star Petri Poikolainen really is in the late stages of MS with full lower body paralysis and associated […]

X MOVIE REVIEW There’s no question that horror director Ti West (The Sacrament) wants you to think of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre when you see his new film X. It’s the same period of time with a group of young people in a van driving through places in Texas they shouldn’t be, creepy old […]

CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) also takes the lead in his new film Cha Cha Real Smooth. He plays Andrew, a fresh out of college 20-something, looking for what comes next. He’s staying with his mother (Leslie Mann) and step-father (Brad Garrett) while trying to figure out what he’s going […]

SLASH/BACK MOVIE REVIEW In a small town on the border of the arctic circle, a group of teen Inuit girls discovers the presence of an alien…thing. It’s been possessing the local wildlife and draining the blood of others. When one of them takes a shot at a possessed bear, the…thing…comes after them, moving up to […]

BODIES BODIES BODIES MOVIE REVIEW Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) are in a new relationship and it’s going at a whirlwind pace. Nonetheless, anyone who has ever been thrown into a whole new group of people who all have a long and complicated history with your significant other knows how tense that can […]

MASTER MOVIE REVIEW A prestigious and very old New England college has a new arrival, one of the few black students at the school, Jasmine (Zoe Renee). Right off the bat, she’s uncomfortable as she sees the largely white mass of faces and as she’s told her dorm room is cursed by ‘the witch’ who […]

HYPOCHONDRIAC MOVIE REVIEW Will (Zach Villa) did not have a great childhood. His mother was schizophrenic and her ‘moments’ sometimes even went past conspiratorial rantings and into violence against Will and herself. But he seems to have largely turned out alright. He’s a happy-go-lucky guy with lots of friends, a solid relationship with Luke (Devon […]

APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD MOVIE REVIEW Richard Linklater returns to his rotoscoped animation series and to his own childhood with his latest nostalgic remembrance Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood. Jack Black narrates this story of coming of age in Houston, Texas in 1969. As the Apollo 11 mission preps to […]

THE LOST CITY MOVIE REVIEW Sandra Bullock is Loretta Sage, a popular writer of adventure romance novels. She’s on the hook to finish her latest book and is just not feeling it anymore. It’s been five years since her husband died, and they used to live a very different life. Together they explored archeological mysteries […]

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT MOVIE REVIEW Nicolas Cage plays himself (and himself…you’ll see) in this new action-comedy. Cage is kinda down and out. Although he works constantly, he’s not happy. His ex-wife and daughter are extremely annoyed with his antics and self-involvement. His agent (Neil Patrick Harris) can’t get him the parts he […]

I LOVE MY DAD MOVIE REVIEW Patton Oswalt plays Chuck, a loser who can’t even get his own kid to talk to him anymore. It very well may even be his history of being a deadbeat dad that leads to the son Franklin (James Morosini) being dangerously unstable with self-harm. For his own mental health, […]

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE MOVIE REVIEW Oh my god, how do you even get started describing a movie like this one? At least without spoiling any of the wonderful surprises in store? Fortunately, there are so many surprises and weirdnesses and delights to be found in Everything Everywhere All At Once, the latest film […]