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Film Review – The Optimist
World War II and The Holocaust continues to be a source of endless stories, whether it is about military strategy, unspeakable horror, or profound acts of humanity. Writer/director Finn Taylor’s The Optimist (2023) recounts the true story of Herbert Heller, a Jew from Czechoslovakia who – along…
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Film Review – The Bride!
Bizarre, absurd, beautiful, tragic, and everything in between, The Bride! (2026) is an ambitious undertaking that re-imagines The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in a completely new light. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal takes a big departure from her last feature (The Lost Daughter (2021)) for a bigger and weirder project. This isn’t just…
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Film Review – Scream 7
In my review of Scream VI (2023) I wrote: “It would appear we have come full circle, to the point where the series has become the very thing it made fun of over twenty years ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That…
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Film Review – The Bluff
The Bluff (2026) is a B-level pirate adventure that knows it’s a B-level pirate adventure. It doesn’t have the joy or earnestness of the early Errol Flynn pictures, nor does it have the size and scope of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. But what it does have is a…
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Film Review – Dreams
Dreams (2025) is the kind of movie that keeps us guessing. Whether that is a good or bad thing will be up to the viewer. The trailer would have us believe that this is an erotic thriller with themes of immigration and privilege sprinkled in. While…
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Film Review – Crime 101
Time is one of the major factors running all throughout Crime 101 (2026). Whether it involves characters racing against time to pull off a major heist, regretting all the time that has passed them with little to show for it, or making the most of the time…
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Film Review – Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
From its opening minutes, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026) aims to test our patience. A man dressed in a plastic raincoat, wrapped in all sorts of tubes and wires, and wearing explosives on his chest walks into a late-night diner. He goes on a long…
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Film Review – Whistle
Whistle (2025) follows the tried-and-true horror blueprint where a bunch of high school kids stumble upon a ghostly curse. They try to figure out the origins of it, and how to stop it before each of them kicks the bucket. Perhaps the most well-known example of…
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