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 […]

2019’s Joker was an interesting spin on a classic comic character and a stylish throwback to 70s Scorsese griminess that found its way to an Oscar win for Joaquin Phoenix and over 1 billion dollars at the box office.  Joker: Folie à Deux is one of the most baffling sequels in recent memory. It feels […]

Dave Bautista battles a rogue’s gallery of colorful assassins in the over-the-top new action movie The Killer’s Game, which came out last weekend in theaters. Bautista plays Joe Flood, one of the, if not the, greatest assassin in the world.  Falling for a dancer, Maizie (Sofia Boutella), Joe wants out of the “killer’s game,” but […]

Taking a cue from recent movies like M3GAN and 90s domestic thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Megan Fox is a robotic housekeeper who goes out of control in Subservience. Michele Morrone stars as Nick, whose wife Maggie (Madeline Zima) has been hospitalized waiting for a heart transplant. Overwhelmed with the stress of […]

Over 35 years since the original movie, Michael Keaton finally returns as the Ghost with the Most in the long-anticipated sequel to Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Taking place in the present day, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) is now a reality TV host with a teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), and a boyfriend/manager, Rory (Justin Theroux).  When Lydia’s […]

Horror director Fede Álvarez brings his penchant for visceral gore to the latest entry in the Alien franchise while also completely nailing the look and style first established in the 1979 Ridley Scott classic.

The Union, Netflix’s latest espionage action movie, doesn’t reach the heights of movies like Extraction but it is significantly better than truly forgettable dreck like Heart of Stone and is carried by the real-life friendship chemistry of Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.

Since 2015, M. Night Shyamalan’s movies have been a roller coaster of the good, like Split and (mostly) Glass, and peak weirdness, like Old. Trap is probably the most mixed bag of his recent films. It has a solid premise and some effective sequences, but it is also full of his bizarre dialogue that sounds like an alien pretending to be human and some ludicrous plot beats, especially in the back half.