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The Lost Bus (2025) – Review
Once upon a time, disaster movies were lavish affairs that saw an all-star cast either fighting or running from some unimaginable act of destructive carnage,
V/H/S/Halloween (2025) – Review
Believe it or not, we’re now up to our eighth installment of handheld, anthology series V/H/S with the last five entries hitting on a yearly
Him (2025) – Review
One place where the horror film has rarely set its cloven hoof is within that of the world of sports. Oh sure, Jason Voorhees sported
Play Dirty (2025) – Review
While there’s a real case to be made for whether streaming is truly killing movies, there’s also a counter argument to be made that debuting
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) – Review
Quick question: if we took time to get to know Strangers, wouldn’t that immediately make them not strangers? Despite the fact that this is a
One Battle After Another (2025) – Review
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes – from the sight of John McClane fighting bad guys in a vest, to the muscles on John
Anaconda (2024) – Review
When word recently broke that Paul Rudd and Jack Black were starring in a bizarre, meta, comedy version of the 90s, cult, creature feature, Anaconda,
Ick (2024) – Review
When you’re delivering a horror comedy that predominantly contains the kind of ruthless, acid-witted teens that lean more into Heathers territory than the sort of
The Long Walk (2025) – Review
In a time where the vast majority of King adaptations are already on their second, or even third go round, it’s somewhat refreshing to find
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) – Review
Whether or not to believe that the stories behind the spectral adventures of Ed and Lorraine Warren are true, you can’t deny that horror’s most
Caught Stealing (2025) – Review
Surely I can’t have been the only one to notice that there’s been a clutch of modest thrillers popping up that’s hoping to bring the
Red Sonja (2025) – Review
The flame-haired heroine birthed from the pulp brain of Robert E. Howard has smote many an enemy, but even the She-Devil with a Sword couldn’t
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) – Review
We all love a whodunit now it seems, and whether it’s Kenneth Branagh’s version of Hercule Poirot, or Daniel Craig’s lusciously accented Benoit Blanc, there
Eenie Meanie (2025) – Review
Remember back during the nineties when it felt like every third, cinematic release was a cool, quirky crime flick along the lines of Out Of
War Of The Worlds (2025) – Review
They come alone once a generation; movies that silence the endless bickering that comes with an evermore fractured population and manages to unite the entire
The Toxic Avenger (2023) – Review
Despite squaring off with such adversaries as diverse as hit & run fitness freaks, Japanese gangsters, a green Satan and his own multiversal doppelganger, it
Beau Is Afraid (2023) – Review
It’s not something I’m entirely proud of, but I tend to get kind of pissy when a director proves to be a bold new voice
The Life Of Chuck (2024) – Review
After adaptions of Stephen King’s work that’s included such films as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Stand By Me, it’s still amazing that
Eddington (2025) – Review
Which ever way you look at it, 2020 was a crazy time for the world in general. I mean, I wouldn’t exactly claim things have
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