In the original series The Last Witch from author Conor McCreery, young Saoirse discovers the birthmark across her shoulder is actually a witchmark, which allows her to resist dark magick… and take it for herself. She must learn to control her power, or the Cailleach and her handmaidens will
The Djinn is excellent. Seriously, I don’t remember the last time I enjoyed a horror movie so much. It weaves a tale of supernatural terror, but the story stays so grounded in reality, everything becomes a hundred times scarier. In The Djinn, a mute boy (Ezra Dewey) is trapped in his apartment
In Initiation, Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point. Note: this review contains mild plot spoilers
Elena Abbott is one of Detroit’s toughest reporters. And after defeating the dark forces that murdered her husband, she’s focused on the most important election in the city’s history. But when someone uses dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit, it
Jack Boniface, aka Shadowman, is on a mission to discover why the veil between humanity's world and the alternate dimension known as the Deadside is tearing apart. As portals appear all over the globe, Jack will use the power of the shadow Loa passed down through his lineage to stop the monstrous
Ben Weatley’s In the Earth takes a swing at low-budget horror that doesn’t quite deliver. In the Earth begins with a pandemic backdrop as Martin (Joel Fry) sets off into the woods on some kind of scientific mission alongside Alma (Ellora Torchia). What they’re actually going to be
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone immerses you in a totally unique fantasy world, full of politics and magic. You’re going to want to set aside 8 hours to binge this one, because you won’t want to stop in the middle!Based on Leigh Bardugo's worldwide bestselling Grishaverse novels, Shadow
The Specter Inspectors live that Scooby Doo life chasin’ ghosts! True believer Noa, her cynical little sibling Gus, credulous camera man Ko, and skeptical Astrid head to one of the most haunted towns in America to prove that ghosts exist, for all the social media likes! The investigations of
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
