Hollywood Reviews
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Review: Matt Murdock, Attorney at Law. And Sometimes He Is Daredevil.
“Does the mask allow us to be our true selves, or, does it strip away our identity and allow us to act like animals?” What should have been a night for celebration ends in tragedy when the assassin Bullseye...
THE GORGE Review: A Big Swing With a Big Heart
Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller star in Scott Derrickson's multi-genre thriller, premiering worldwide on Apple TV+.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Review: Pacifying Propaganda Engages, Disturbs
Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford star; Julius Onah directed.
LOVE HURTS Review: Great Action Can't Save a Middling Story
For those not aware of Ke Huy Quan's comeback story, here's a refresher: a child star of two of the biggest films of the 1980s (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies), he found his career stalled...
THE MONKEY Review: This Toy Is Scary As Hell And It Means Business
After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most nihilistic short stories in The Monkey. Revamping the story from a morose, chaotic, paranoid...
HEART EYES Review: This Gooey Rom-Com Slasher Really Hits The Spot
Love is in the air in Heart Eyes, the new Valentine's Day slasher from director Josh Ruben. Unfortunately for the cute couples of the world, this also means that a serial killer with a thing for young lovers is on...
Sundance 2025 Review: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, Politics, Queerness, and Jennifer Lopez
As countries on both sides of the Atlantic careen uncontrollably towards illiberalism, authoritarian, and fascism, art as an act of resistance, opposition, or defiance gains ever greater importance. That includes an oft-adapted work, such as Manuel Puig’s 1976 postmodern...
COMPANION Review: A Fun, Twisty Debut Techno-Thriller From Drew Hancock
Sophie Thatcher plays ingenue girlfriend to Jack Quaid’s very bad boyfriend in Drew Hancock’s Companion, a twisty thriller with plenty of surprises up its very bloody sleeves. Josh (Quaid) and his girlfriend Iris (Thatcher) are heading up to a woodsy...
MYTHIC QUEST S4 Review: Still Fussing and Feuding, Still Funny
Rob McElhenney and Charlotte Nicdao lead the workplace comedy series, premiering its fourth season globally on Apple TV+.
FLIGHT RISK Review: Thriller Delivers Awkward Jokes, No Thrills
Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace star in director Mel Gibson's would-be thriller.
4K Review: SMILE 2, Grinning Its Way to Hell
Out today from our friends at Paramount, comes Smile 2 for the more brutal and terrifying section of your home video library. The writer/director/producer Parker Finn is back for more, and is following the horror movie creed that the sequel...
4K Review: The Epic Continues in KILL BILL VOL. 2
After annihilating a bevy of assassins including Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), her Crazy 88s and her advisor Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) in a veritable tsunami of blood in Kill Bill: Vol. 1, The Bride (Uma...
4K Review: The Essential Cinema of KILL BILL VOL. 1
Where to begin on part one of one of the greatest films of all time? Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker with an immense knowledge of cinema; he’s always been a remix artist for me, a film DJ, and that has...
4K Review: JACKIE BROWN
I really, really wanted to love Jackie Brown. I’m a Pam Grier fan, and every other actor, of which there are several, are great. Other than adapting source material that Quentin Tarantino didn’t write (Elmore Leonard’s “Rum Punch” crime novel),...
WOLF MAN Review: Leigh Whannell's Backwoods Howler Doesn't Quite Hit The Mark
A man struggling in a strained marriage strikes out into the woods with his wife and daughter on a mission to reclaim a family farm and perhaps repair his relationship, but instead finds himself tangling with a vicious, primordial –...
SEVERANCE S2 Review: Madly Ambitious Mind Games
Adam Scott returns to a world where the work/life balance is always in question. Now streaming on Apple TV+.
Now Streaming GOOSEBUMPS: THE VANISHING: Spooky Fun For Young Horror Families
Fraternal twins Devin and Cece have joined their single dad for the Summer. Cece is going to attend a Debate summer camp while Devin plans to pine after his longtime crush Frankie whilst avoiding the glares and threats of her...
SNAKE EYES Headlines Kino Lorber's 4K Roundup
Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It's also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so join us as we take a look at the new 4K UHDs, Blu-rays, and DVDs...
NOSFERATU Review: Robert Eggers's Vision Of The Vampire Falls Flat
An undead fiend lusts after a distraught waif in Nosferatu, Robert Eggers’s languid retelling of one of horror cinema’s most influential texts. Thomas (Nicolas Hoult) is an ambitious and newly married real estate agent eager for promotion when his boss,...
MUFASA: THE LION KING Review: Barry Jenkins Brings His Indie Auteur Cred to Disney's Beloved Property
When Disney tapped filmmaker Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book, Chef, Elf) to direct a computer-animated remake of its 1994 classic, The Lion King, it was met with of raised eyebrows, minot irritation, and a shedload’s worth of doubt, but the...
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