The recently released Novocaine is anything but painful. It delivers tons of laughs along with over-the-top, creative violence led by a fantastic Jack Quaid. Quaid plays Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who was born with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis or CIPA, which makes him unable to feel any physical pain. After finally […]

Spending an ungodly amount of money, Netflix’s latest massive blockbuster, The Electric State, is a mish-mash of ideas that were expressed better in other films and a genuinely terrible script that seems to have contributed to some truly awful performances from the main cast. Set in an alternate 1994 following a massive war between robots […]

Released this past weekend on Apple TV+, The Gorge tries to combine romance, sci-fi, and action, but its generic plot elements outweigh its more interesting elements. Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller play elite snipers recruited to monitor two watchtowers on either side of a massive gorge for a year.  They are told to keep whatever […]

Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid endure a brutal break-up in the hilarious, violent, and clever Companion. Sophie Thatcher plays Iris, while Jack Quaid is Josh. The couple head to the remote but opulent lake house of a wealthy acquaintance along with some other friends, but things go violently awry. After the mysterious first teaser trailer, […]

Streaming platforms love action comedies about secret spies or retired agents, but most are just average at best. Back in Action stands out only for marking Cameron Diaz’s return after nearly a decade, yet it’s another bland Netflix addition. Diaz and Jamie Foxx play CIA operatives, Emily and Matt. During their last mission, the pair […]

Seven years after the first movie hit theaters, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera raises the stakes with a gripping and tension-filled heist sequence, an international scope, compelling performances from its leads, and pulse-pounding action. While it doesn’t quite surpass its predecessor, it still delivers a thrilling experience for fans of the genre. Picking up where […]

Hitting select theaters this past weekend, Donnie Yen directs and stars in the new legal thriller/martial arts action movie The Prosecutor. The film features some fantastic action sequences but sometimes gets bogged down in the legal minutiae of Hong Kong. Yen plays Fok Chi-Ho, a police officer who decides to become a prosecutor for Hong […]

With its R rating, Kraven the Hunter attempts to carve out a niche in Sony’s Marvel Universe, delivering a few solid and cool kills. However, despite these moments, the film ultimately falls flat, lacking the hilariously terrible tone of Madame Web or the bat-shit insanity of the Venom trilogy. The plot of “Kraven the Hunter” […]

It’s been 24 years, but Ridley Scott finally took us back into the Colosseum for Gladiator II. While it lacks compared to its 2000 predecessor, it also shares many of its strengths. Paul Mescal plays the grown Lucius Verus Aurelius, who was forced to flee Rome after the events of Gladiator. Finding a new life […]

Sony’s Marvel Universe continues to flounder as the Venom trilogy comes to a messy and rushed ending in Venom: The Last Dance. Picking up from the end of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (and Eddie/Venom’s cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home), Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Hardy) are fugitives wanted for the murder […]

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 […]