Reviews

Undertone is proof that loud doesn’t always equal scary. undertone (2026) Ian Tuason’s first long film showed flashes of brilliance. And if rumors are correct, he’s been picked to direct the next ‘Paranormal Activity’, but hopefully, he uses this debut film to work out the kinks before his next project. Undertone is shot in one location, Evy’s house, where she lives with her dying mother. At night, Evy hosts a podcast with her cohost, Justin, where they discuss paranormal act

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

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