This week I got in touch with my imagination once again, but from the family film side with Ryan Reynolds, I got to check out the latest Ivan Sen flick and devoured the latest Nicolas Cage post-apocalyptic thriller. I finally checked out a classic Edward James Olmos film on a new blu-ray edition, got an …
This week is a big episode for me as an Alex Garland fan as I talk about one of my hugely anticipated films of 2024 and A24’s biggest theatrical hit ever. I also dig into an Aussie horror thriller currently streaming on Shudder, a Criterion Collection addition from an acclaimed Hungarian auteur and a film …
This week there are two absolute masterpieces of genre in theaters, Late Night With The Devil and Monkey Man, and I also checked out possibly the crown jewel of Robert Altman’s illustrious career in Criterion 4K for the first time. Andrew Scott takes on the role of Tom Ripley in a new Netflix adaptation, shot …
The first episode of 2024 and I’m going for the horror right away! Given, I didn’t really have anything new to watch, I instead played catch up for a few great ones including Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. I also got a box set of one of the greatest sci-fi shows ever.
New Releases: Asteroid City – Following a writer on his world-famous fictional play about a grieving father, who travels with his tech-obsessed family to the small rural town of Asteroid City, to compete in a stargazing event. Only to have his worldview disrupted forever. Expectations: Wes Anderson returns for what looks like one of his most, uh, …
New Releases: Renfield – R.M. Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) decides to leave his centuries-long line of work as a henchman and familiar to Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and finds a new lease on life in modern-day New Orleans when he falls in love with a feisty but perennially aggressive traffic cop named Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina). Expectations: …
New Releases: Scream VI – It really is impressive how fast Paramount moved on to the next installment of the Scream franchise and the second without series creator Wes Craven as the fifth film just came out in January or last year. The writers and directors behind this film, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, collectively known as Radio Silence, …
New Releases: Cocaine Bear – We kicked off the year with a living doll in M3GAN and had Mia Goth give another gonzo performance in Infinity Pool and, now, 2023 is giving us the next installment of horror risk-taking with this piece of insane genre filmmaking which is, believe it or not, inspired by a …
New Releases: The Son – When Florian Zeller made his dementia-fueled drama The Father with Anthony Hopkins, I was quickly given the knowledge that this was a filmmaker who had a definite grip on how these sad situations played out but to do it from the point of view of the man suffering from it …
New Releases: Avatar: The Way Of Water – This is it, we are heading into the last huge movie week of 2022 with arguably the biggest movie of the year and, as a film fan if you aren’t curious about James Cameron’s return to Pandora then you need to check your pulse. The jury is …
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