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Review: Smile 2

October 22, 2024

The recently released Smile 2 does exactly what a good sequel should: it takes what worked in the first movie and ramps it up to new levels. Naomi Scott takes over the lead role as Skye Riley,  a troubled pop superstar on the verge of starting a big comeback tour.  While trying to get some […]

Ke Huy Quan Goes Full Action Star in Love Hurts (Trailer)

October 22, 2024

Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan is joining forces with David Leitch’s 87North to go full action star in Love Hurts.  Quan plays Marvin Gable, a seemingly ordinary, mild-mannered real estate agent.  Marvin is hiding a violent past, however, and it comes crashing back down when his former flame and his vengeful brother both track him […]

New Release Round Up 10/22/24

October 22, 2024

Here’s what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray/4K this week; it’s the New Release Round-Up Pick of the Week: Deadpool and Wolverine Also Out This Week: Twisters MaXXXine Cuckoo Borderlands Oddity Slingshot The Beast Within The Arctic Convoy About Dry Grasses Evil: The Final Season Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale Season 1 The Dig The Silent Hour […]

Battle at the Box Office 10/21/24

October 21, 2024

Horror continued to reign at the box office as Smile 2 took the top spot over the past weekend. Smile 2 opened to $23 million, just slightly above what the first movie did in 2022. It eventually made $106 million domestically and $217 million worldwide. We’ll have to wait until this coming weekend to see […]

Musical Montage: Creed “What If”

October 21, 2024

The second single from Creed’s massive album Human Clay, “What If,” was also the lead single from the soundtrack album for 2000’s Scream 3.  Written by Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti, the song is one of the heaviest songs in Creed’s catalog and was released on January 31st, 2000, a few days before Scream 3 […]

Everything Actioncast: New Nightmare (1994)

October 19, 2024

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get meta to talk about Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which celebrated its 30th anniversary. Existing in the “real world,” Heather Langenkamp plays herself, an actress in Los Angeles who has terrible nightmares about a darker and more sinister version of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund).  Wes Craven […]

Everything Action Theater: The Omen (1976)

October 17, 2024

While it received mixed reviews upon its release, 1976’s The Omen has become a horror classic, and you can watch it in the latest Everything Action Theater.  Directed by the great Richard Donner, The Omen stars Gregory Peck as US diplomat Robert Thorn.  When his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) gives birth to a son, Thorn […]

A24 Goes ET in February with The Legend of Ochi (Trailer)

October 16, 2024

Although probably best known for their dramas and horror movies, A24 is bringing us a fantasy adventure reminiscent of something like ET in February next year with The Legend of Ochi.  Set on a remote island where mysterious creatures threaten the residents, a young girl named Yuri (Helena Zengel) encounters and befriends one of the […]

Taron Egerton is Forced to Make a Dangerous Choice in Carry-On (Trailer)

October 16, 2024

Taron Egerton is a TSA agent forced into a dangerous decision by a mysterious blackmailer in Carry-On, hitting Netflix in December.  On Christmas Day, TSA agent Ethan Kopek (Egerton) is working at the bag scanning station when he receives an earpiece and begins talking to a mysterious voice (Jason Bateman).  Threatened with the death of […]

Horror Villain of the Week: John Carver

October 16, 2024

Name: John Carver (Revealed to be Sheriff Eric Newlson) Portrayed by: Patrick Dempsey, Alex Armbruster, Geoff Meech, Thomas Lorber, Milo Manheim, Adam Macdonald Origins: On Thanksgiving night, 2022, Sheriff Eric Newlson responded to a riot breaking out at the superstore RightMart, which resulted in three deaths, including Newlson’s lover Amanda Collins, who was pregnant with […]