If You Were the Last is a sci-fi rom-com that people seem to like… as someone who doesn’t understand hu-mans, I’m at a bit of a loss. I didn’t think much of this film or its two leads… I didn’t … Continue reading
Death’s Roulette is a Mexican thriller about a group of kidnapped people locked into a mansion and forced to pick one of their number to murder. It’s like a basic Escape Room puzzle mixed with a tiresome game of Ultimate … Continue reading
Immanence is a sci-fi/horror Trojan Horse designed to ham-fistedly cram the screenwriter’s pet theology down your throat. Its plot synopsis is a lie, a crass attempt to con people into listening to its straw man arguments. The flick is about … Continue reading
Unlike Natty Knocks which kinda sorta felt like a tween RL Stine movie (only rated R), Zombie Town on Hulu is actually an RL Stine movie. I hit play knowing it probably wasn’t gonna be my speed. The flick is … Continue reading
Joke’s on me. I thought this was the John Wick Ballerina spinoff I’d heard about. But don’t be a fool like me – that’s a 2024 American action flick, not a 2023 S. Korean “action” flick. Ballerina is not, in … Continue reading
I’m pretty lukewarm on the V/H/S found footage franchise… and I found this latest entry a real mess. Like the rest of the series, it’s presented as a beaten up VHS tape on which various short horror stories are told, … Continue reading
The Retirement Plan is about a young couple on the run from a crime boss and his goons. Their daughter winds up in the Cayman Islands where she meets her estranged grandpa as played by Nicolas Cage. The goons follow … Continue reading
All Fun and Games is about a haunted dagger that possesses its victims and makes them play a deadly game of cat and mouse. Or flashlight tag. Why the demon has childhood games as a gimmick, I’m not sure…. though … Continue reading
Killer Book Club is a meta slasher with a killer book hook. By which I mean it’s about a killer with a book, not a slasher film that’s particularly killer. It’s a Spanish film on Netflix that tries too hard … Continue reading
I have no idea who Blue Beetle is as a DC comic book hero. He’s up there with the Guardians of the Galaxy and even Ant-Man as characters I didn’t know until the movie released. So maybe I wasn’t the … Continue reading