One Man’s Trash: Zoombies 2
Well, this isn’t a zoo, and these critters aren’t exactly undead. But goshdarnit, “zoombies” is too clever a pun to sleep on, so we’ll roll with it. If you’re desperate to steal an elephant, why go...
View ArticleAngel Has Fallen Review: Pointless Sequel Can’t Get Up
If going through a checklist of action film clichés were a competitive sport, Angel Has Fallen would be the all-time world champion. The predictable plot, two-dimensional characters, and lust for guns...
View Article47 Meters Down: Uncaged Review – Not All That Deep
Between the killer-gator flick Crawl a few weeks ago and real-life shark attacks on the news seemingly every day, this is shaping up to be quite the summer of aquatic horrors. Now here to make the...
View ArticleIt: Chapter Two Review – Whatever Floats Your Boat
A clown, especially an ancient evil one, is a grand central character for any horror film. However, it takes more than Pennywise to keep It: Chapter Two rolling. Though Chapter Two picks up mere...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Worst Horror Sequels
The sequel to the 2017 horror smash It arrives this weekend, and we can hope for the best that it will live up to the original. Sadly, many horror sequels don’t. In fact, a lot of them are just plain...
View ArticleRambo: Last Blood Review – Bled Dry
The last scenes in Rambo: Last Blood, the fifth and supposedly final film in Sylvester Stallone’s signature action series, are a montage of clips from 1982’s First Blood all the way to some from the...
View ArticleNow Streaming – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
El Camino just might be the movie that Breaking Bad die-hards have yammered for the past few years, but it’s bound to leave more casual fans a little unsatisfied. If you recall, the television show...
View ArticleMaleficient: Mistress of Evil Review – Another Horny Fairy Tale
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil may appear to be the next in the long list of Disney’s live-action remakes, but don’t let that scare you away. This tale of revenge and horns is the rare case of the...
View ArticleZombieland: Double Tap Review – Not Quite Tapped Out Yet
Ten years and sixteen days after the first Zombieland was released, we finally get to see what those crazy living humans have been up to all these years. Zombieland: Double Tap is a fun enough visit...
View ArticleWatchmen Pilot Recap: “Trust in the Law”
Considering the glut of superhero stories we’re experiencing in movies and TV, right now is either a great time to revive Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ legendary Watchmen comic, or perhaps the worst....
View ArticleTerminator: Dark Fate Review – The Future Is Still Not Set
Is there a franchise where the notion sequels is more baked-in than The Terminator? We should have known that the famous line “I’ll be back” was more than a just a quip, but a mantra promising decades...
View ArticleDoctor Sleep Review: Worth Staying Up For
Consider me shocked. As much as I enjoyed director Mike Flanagan’s Oculus, the idea of messing with Stanley Kubrick’s vision by making a sequel to The Shining is a tough prescription for Doctor Sleep...
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