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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t has a game that is thrillingly played, layering scheme upon scheme and drawing us tighter to it as it powers toward its applause-worthy reveal.
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Predator: Badlands is an indispensable part of Yautja lore, offering solid action and providing a fresh, engaging perspective on a nearly 40-year-old franchise.
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Two standout stories in V/H/S/Halloween are enough to balance out their ho-hum companion pieces, where the twists and action feel like the filmmakers were trying too hard to create something shocking or impressive.
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The Conjuring: Last Rites is much more confident in tone and execution than its immediate predecessor, staying sharply focused from start to finish.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is straight-up movie magic, a hell of a statement on fighting the good fight and staying on the right side of history, orders be damned.
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“I live in the weak and the wounded… Doc.” — Mary Hobbes This quote from Brad Anderson’s criminally underseen and underappreciated Session 9 kept coming to me throughout my viewing of Smile 2. I could almost hear Jurian Hughes’ eerily disjointed voice winding its way through my mind, especially considering the themes of trauma that […]
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I’m going to put this right up front: I’m a fan of the V/H/S anthologies, the same way I’m a massive fan of horror stories told around campfires and short horror collections, like Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark or Stephen King’s Skeleton Crew. Quick doses of horror that build to an […]
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1988’s Beetlejuice saw filmmaker Tim Burton – then with only Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure under his belt and one year away from the release of Batman – dazzle audiences with his wild visions of the afterlife, pitting the titular character against the recently-deceased and the still-living. The film is the definition of “gallows humor,” sporting a […]
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For 45 years, two cinematic creatures have brought terror to movie theaters and TV screens all over the world. First seen in Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, the ovomorph (known generally as the facehugger) and the xenomorph were nightmares brought to hellish life. To quote one of that film’s characters, the xenomorph is “the perfect organism. […]
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The fun doesn’t stop with Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) in their latest buddy-cop sequel, Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Not even its serious-as-a-heart-attack (pun kinda intended – there’s one of those in the movie) stakes that threaten to ruin our beloved characters can halt how much oomph directing partners Adil […]
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