Eleanor the Great
Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, works the best when it focuses on itself as a character study as well as on a close but deceiving friendship. However, it [...]
The Toxic Avenger (2025)
The Toxic Avenger is a loving, smartly updated take on the 1984 splatter horror comedy landmark. Where the original was nearly all gore and sex, often for what seemed to [...]
Happy Gilmore 2
Happy Gilmore 2 is the sequel to the original 1996 film, starring Adam Sandler. Happy is a golfer driven by his rage, harnessing that to drive the ball further than anyone [...]
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
For decades now, it has been an ongoing joke that the Fantastic Four property is cursed when it comes to making successful film adaptations. Roger Corman famously attempted to bring [...]
Ash
"Ash" will worm its way into your brain, sure, but leave much of its sordid alien world and the human crew inhabiting it narratively wanting.
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Horror is a tricky genre to get right. It requires a delicate balancing of elements, namely suspense, emotion, levity, the grotesque and the unnerving, among others. For as many films [...]
Until Dawn
Some of the more beloved video games of the past decade have been horror games. From survival horror like Outlast and Resident Evil: Biohazard, to games like The Quarry and [...]
The Amateur
The Amateur is the newest film from director James Hawes, starring Rami Malek as Charlie Heller, a government analyst who loses his wife in a terrorist attack. Following this tragedy, [...]
Death of a Unicorn
As the studio continues to build its resumé with broader audiences, A24's latest cheeky genre flick aims to add a twist to the creature feature formula. Satirically tackling the pharmaceutical [...]
Flight Risk
Much can be said, and has been said, about the problematic nature of Mel Gibson. Setting aside his previous antics and despicable behavior, the man does know how to make [...]