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The Bride! showed promise but had one too many fumbles.  Wanted to love it but couldn’t. The Bride! (2026) The Bride! is a gothic horror-romance take on Bonnie & Clyde for us oldsters, or Wild at Heart/Thelma and Louis for those, well, I guess, still old. What works:  It’s difficult to give Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley anything that they won’t shine in, but this movie does test the boundaries of that. You do have two of the best-skilled actors in this movie, along with so

Scream 7 showed good gross promise but fizzled out in the end. Scream 7 (2026) Scream 7 continues this 30-year slasher-horror film franchise without Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, but reunites us with Neve Campbell and brings back Courteney Cox, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Mason Gooding, who are once again being tormented by Ghostface for reasons that will only be revealed by a monologue in the end. Scream 7 tries to burn it all down, but shows that it needs the nostalgia What

How To Make a Killing made the cardinal sin when it comes to A24 Studio Films...it forgot to be weird. Glen Powell in How To Make A Killing (2026) How To Make a Killing is an A24 dark comedy that broke the golden A24 rule…it forgot to get weird. I think if Glen Powell has a devoted audience, they’ll find a way to see this under-promoted movie. This movie didn’t work, and, unfortunately, after The Running Man, Glen Powell is 0-2 in his leading-man gig. He’s proven to work grea

Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale (2018) The Nightingale is not for the faint of heart at all. Once again, this is a movie that the movie randomizer website suggested, & since I don’t click until I see something I want, this is the risk I run. The Nightingale is a brutal, honest look at English colonization of Tasmania and the Aboriginal people who lived there. The Nightingale is unrelenting in its necessary brutality Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr,  and Sam Claflin

Le sigh... It's just that time of year. We have to slog through this part before the hits start rolling in. It's not that the movies are BAD, per se, but they do tend to be a bit underwhelming right now. Good actors, meh movie (Crime 101) Which leads us to Crime 101, starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, and Nick Nolte. Yes, that Nick Nolte. Crime 101 is your typical heist, cat-and-mouse movie, but unlike its muse, Heat, this ca

The good thing about having someone else, or in my case, a random website, choose your movie is that you might see films that never crossed your radar. And this can be a great thing when the movie exceeds expectations. Make time for Emergency (2022) Emergency (2022) was chosen for me, and I'll admit I've never heard of this movie. I'm not sure even this small review will do it justice Emergency is about two African American college students who want to be the first Black men

Let me be upfront...I haven't actually seen THAT many movies. DON'T JUDGE ME Before I started this movie gig lol I will always, unapologetically, consider myself a reader before a watcher, but having enjoyed a lot of both in recent years, I realize I love art. No matter what form it takes. So I've been on a quest to see as many movies as I can, rewatching some I've seen, experiencing some for the first time... I fully believe we're becoming a consumption society. We're losin

Jason Statham and Bodhi Rae Breathnach (Shelter 2026) Let me fall on my sword here...I'm a fan of Jason Statham movies. The good (The Italian Job), the bad (The Meg), and all those in between. So remember that when I say that I quite enjoyed Shelter. Its straightforward plot and Statham's signature style make it an easy watch, even if it's nothing fancy. It's not gonna win any Oscars next year, but it has the few components I love in his movies: a simple plot, fun action, and

Sweet lord, we have almost reached the 310th day of January... February isn't coming, is it? You know what doesn't help, January? Unremarkable movies are being released. That said, it hasn't been a particularly terrible month for movies. Quite the ringing endorsement, eh? Rachel McAdams & Dylan O'Brien in Send Help (2026) Send Help wasn't good, it wasn't bad. It's a dark comedy with horror elements, so it balances humor and suspense, but overall, it was just ok. Send Help is

Chris Pratt & Rebecca Ferguson in Mercy (2026) Let's start this review by saying: It's January. You can't expect much, but I aim to be fair. Sure, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is getting great reviews, but it isn't the norm for this time of year. Which brings us to Mercy. Oh boy. Let's do this...sigh... Maybe Rebecca Ferguson has been told, "Just agree to any and every movie." And there is zero wrong with that. Even Michael Caine has taken movies strictly for the check.

Ralph Fiennes in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Whew...what a way to kick off my first screening of 2026. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was shot directly after 28 Years Later (which was released in June 2025). This is part 2 of 3, directed by Nia DaCosta instead of Danny Boyle. The reason behind this was that shooting in Northumbria is expensive, so to be cost-effective, they had to shoot both parts back-to-back. Danny needed to finish up getting 28 Years Later ready for

Even though the box office hasn't reflected it, 2025 was a pretty good year for movies. I know that after COVID, the theater industry has suffered, but I'm really hoping that it starts to make a comeback in the next few years. We can't lose our art mediums, people. We just can't. And no matter how fun it is to doomscroll Twitter or TikTok, there's nothing like going to the movies and losing yourself for a few hours. So that being said, I'll talk about what I'm excited for i

Full confession straight up in today's Quick Hits: Wicked For Good... I'm not a musical fan. That being said, I did enjoy Wicked Part I for what it was. It helps that, even if you haven't seen the Broadway play, you might have been familiar with one or two songs from the play/movie. Off to see the Wizard? Hold off on that If you didn't see it at all, hated it, or had zero awareness that this play even existed... this movie isn't for you... What made the first one enjoyable, o

Let's talk about the good and the bad in today's hit list. Oh, Glen...what are we trying to do here? The Running Man was a stinker, folks. I wanted to like this movie so much, but it just didn't deliver. Here's the thing: Glen Powell does two things supremely well: Cocky and charming. And if you want to add a third thing...charming cocky guy. What GP can't do is bitter, angry dude. He doesn't have it in him. It's not natural to who he is...AT ALL. So this is no shade to Powe

From Richard Bachman to Arnold to Glen Powell? In preparation for tonight's screening of The Running Man, I decided to read the novel and watch the 1987 movie. Full confession, I had never seen the 1987 Arnold movie, so my first experience with The Running Man was the novel, and I'm kinda glad for that. For those who don't know, The Running Man was Stephen King's last publication under the pseudonym Richard Bachman before his true identity was revealed. I thiiiiiiiink he migh

I know four people probably skim this, so shout out to you guys. You're the true champs for reading this slop What would you even like to know right now? I'm so behind on everything, so I feel like I could randomly talk about anything and it would help to chip away at the overwhelmingness I think constantly. Movie reviews are hard to keep up with during this time of year. I think a few weeks in October, I was seeing 3-4 movies a week. Before you say, "Oh, that must be so fu

Let's get everyone caught up because, honestly, where have I been? I've been terrible. Here, TikTok, YouTube. Let's face it, your girl really isn't cut out for social media. I get overwhelmed by the thought of typing content, recording content...hell, even just taking a pic of myself leads to overthinking. So I kinda suck at this So it's been a minute and I've seen soooo many movies since I last chatted with you. I'll go through some of these pretty quick because during thi

It's a been a minute! So let me catch you up on what's been going on... Peacemaker Season 2...where are we going? If you've been watching Peacemaker Season 2, you know that the rumors have been around that episodes 6-8 are supposed to be game changers for the series. Let's hope. It's good, don't get me wrong, but it has been stretching out a lot of nothing to get us to that point. So now it puts a lot of pressure on these next episodes to deliver. I have hope because seeing

Fatal Alliance is hohum Pirates find a ship, which self-destructs, but the Hutts take the contents, and they are to be auctioned off on...

Thank the gods I finally finished Secret Wars II. I get why they did it, but…ugh…that was a task. There are 42 issues (event &...