The Swerve takes a dark, uncomfortable look at a woman whose life is slowly spinning away from her. Here’s our review. (Note: For some reason the marketing is pushing this as a horror movie. It’s not a horror movie. It’s a drama.) First and foremost: AZURA. SKYE. I mean...wow. Skye delivers
In the second issue of Cyberpunk 2077's tie-in comic, Trauma Team #2, we find that our heroine Nadia is suffering from Heroic Blue Screen of Death syndrome. Let's hope it doesn't turn into a Red Ring of Death for her. Warning: major spoilers for Trauma Team #2. Stop reading here if you have any
Murder in the Woods is your basic teen slasher flick. It follows a group of college kids partying it up in a remote cabin in the woods. Until they start getting killed off, anyways. Uh...people get murdered? Look. Murder in the Woods isn’t some kind of subversive horror masterpiece. You’re not
The game is afoot - but a new Holmes is playing. Netflix’s Enola Holmes introduces Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock’s younger sister. When her mother disappears one day, Enola sets off on a quest to find her. But she quickly finds herself caught up in another mystery - a deadly one. Note: this
Beast Within is an awkwardly put together attempt at horror. I’ll stick to the original Werewolf party game to fulfill my “werewolf whodunit” needs. No major spoilers in this review, but you can still jump down to the spoiler-free Bottom Line for the highlights. Let’s start with what works
Raised by Wolves warns us: don’t get between a mother and her children. Even when the mother in question is an android. The new HBO Max sci-fi series from Ridley Scott follows two androids raising human children on a mysterious planet. Mother and Father work to instill good atheist beliefs in
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
