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Film Review – Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Grace MacCaullay is having the worst week ever. First, she gets married into a rich family that forces her to play a game as a form of initiation. Then, we come to find out that the game in question is hide and seek, except she…
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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 – Pillion
Pillion (2025) strives to be another A24 hit, thrust forth into the moviegoers’ consciousness by another stellar marketing campaign. Based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones, screenwriter and director Harry Lighton knew exactly what this story could be and struck gold with the…
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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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