After the visual spectacle of Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve has delivered his current magnum opus with the new Dune, which features jaw-dropping production design and special effects while also making the characters and plot interesting and understandable even if you’ve never read all 400+ pages of Frank Herbert’s epic.

While it has some brutal kills from the OG bogeyman, Michael Myers, and some solid fan service, Halloween Kills mostly feels like wheel-spinning before the actual conclusion of the Michael/Laurie battle in next year’s Halloween Ends.

Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, and The Invisible Man are available for the first time ever in 4K in the new Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror collection, check out our thoughts on this new set.

After 15 years, Daniel Craig’s run as James Bond finally comes to a close with No Time to Die, an almost Avengers: Endgame length send-off that ties up all the loose ends of the Craig era but definitely feels its length at times and some other flaws that keep it from reaching the heights of Casino Royale or Skyfall.

September is here and it’s time to get educated with new game reviews. We got to check out a remix of an arcade classic with Centipede: Recharged, ventured into a radioactive wasteland in Chernobylite, solved mysterious game-breaking cases in Gamedec, and explored a lush alien forest in Ionia. Check out our impressions and review below in the latest Gamebox 2.0

Nicolas Cage is wonderfully over the top in the interesting and weird genre mash-up Prisoners of the Ghostland, where he plays a criminal strapped into a bomb studded leather jumpsuit and sent into the barren “Ghostland” to find a missing girl.

James Wan returns to horror with the insane roller coaster ride of Malignant, which features gorgeous cinematography on top of an absolutely insane and brutally violent plot with one of the wildest third acts in recent horror memory.

Shang-Chi arrives in the MCU with a very fun origin story that gets a bit bogged down in flashbacks and exposition but features some fantastic martial arts action.

In 1979, an occultist gang harness the Necronomicon to unleash an evil terror strikes New York. Luckily, a portal appears to bring a modern-day deadites slayer Ash Williams for help. Now Ash must take on the mean streets of NYC and the undead punks that roam them.  

Summer is winding down but the gaming hasn’t slowed a bit. We squeezed the last bits of summer gaming as we checked out another batch of PC and console titles over the past month. We visited a cyberpunk future, redressed tackey clothing, fought as a blind warrior prince, protected our squadmates in WW2, and more! Our reviews are below for our August edition of the Gamebox.

Hugh Jackman stars in the new sci-fi noir from Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy as a man who sells a service that allows people to relive memories but he becomes obsessed with reliving his own memories to try and find the woman he loved after she disappears in Reminiscence.