I love a movie year loaded with surprises. A long list of risks and rewards, chances taken on the smallest of projects that strike a chord with audiences and leave them soaring. Directorial debuts cracking top 10 lists, indie horror films made for nothing crushing the box office, and more and more
I know it's hard to believe, but there are actually other movies in theaters and on digital outside of The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It's a good movie watching practice to not forget about the little guy - the small indie projects that won't be box office smashes but are more than
With the summer movie season starting and more options to catch at your local movie theater and at home, we thought a weekly guide might help you figure out what might catch your interest. With holdovers like Backrooms and Obsession still going strong, the marketplace expands with even more choices
Hokum is a story about telling stories, and all of the elevated frights and scares mined from timeless sources of culture lend it all to feel but lived in and supernaturally surreal. Smart choices like this leave me wanting more from both McCarthy and Irish folktales. They gave us whiskey and
Prison dramas have a soft spot in my heart. I am fascinated by the system overall - it's flaws and corrosive effect over incarceration has on society at large - and find their cinema interpretations deeply intriguing. There's a plethora of bad ones; for every Oz or The Night Of TV series or Sing
The new horror reimagining Lee Cronin's The Mummy is now in playing in theaters, and we got a chance to speak with one of its stars. Veronica Falcón, known for her popular works in Queen of the South, Ozark, and Imaginary. Here she plays Carmen Santiago, the matriarch of the Cannon family and
Putting your name in the title of the movie is a bold move for anyone not named Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino, even if it's just to separate it from familiar IP. I don't know that Lee Cronin quite has the repertoire to demand such a thing, but in his latest film, he most certainly works to
I'm not completely sold on the Bob Odenkirk action star rebrand. That's not a knock on him, either. I actually think he fits the role quite well, given the right circumstances - those being the break out Nobody which remains the best use of his new look. But something about it feels off and
Let’s talk Practical Magic 2! I didn’t watch the original film until a couple of years ago, so my nostalgia bar is very low. That said, I’m a huge fan of Sandra Bullock, so I was SHOCKED that this film never crossed my TV screen until the 2024 Halloween season. I truly enjoyed the witchy
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
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
