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Review: Kraven the Hunter

December 17, 2024

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” […]

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 […]

Review: The Killer’s Game

September 17, 2024

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 […]

Review: Alien: Romulus

August 20, 2024

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.

Review: The Union

August 19, 2024

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.

Review: Trap

August 6, 2024

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.