Review: ‘Gully’Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jonathan Majors, Amber Heard, And A Starry Cast Can't Escape...
Gully, the gritty debut feature from Austalian music video director Nabil Elderkin, would have been considered a groundbreaking arthouse film in the early 2000s....
Review: ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’The Warrens Are Back Hunting Demons...
If you're looking for more of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) traipsing around haunted housed, you'll get that in The...
Cinema Royale: Talking ‘A Quiet Place Part II’, ‘Cruella’, Amazon/MGM, JJ Abrams ‘Star Wars’...
On this week's Cinema Royale, we're talking the triumphant premiere of A Quiet Place Part II and its impact on the box office. But...
Review: ‘Endangered Species’Entitled Americans Are On The Menu In M.J. Bassett's Safari Survival Thriller
Following last year's anti-poaching/runaway lion action flick Rogue, director MJ Bassett returns to (or more accurately, stays in) Africa for Endangered Species. Bassett, known...
Review: ‘Cruella’A Misconceived Retcon Of The '101 Dalmatians' Villain Overshadows Emma Stone And Emma...
Masking a poorly-fitting retcon of one of their iconic villains with an awesomely eclectic soundtrack, Disney's Cruella works if you're willing to accept a...
Review: ‘A Quiet Place Part II’John Krasinski's Horror Sequel Still Entertains But Doesn't Take...
2018's A Quiet Place sorta came out of nowhere. While many were interested in seeing how John Krasinski, whose talents in front of and...
Review: ‘New Order’Brutal, Unflinching Class-Warfare Thriller Makes 'Parasite' Look Like A Picnic
Get ready for 80 minutes of brutal, unflinching, and raw dystopian fantasy that explores with extreme violence the class divide within Mexico. Although, really,...
Review: ‘Dream Horse’Toni Collette And Damian Lewis Star In A Feel-Good Horse Racing Drama...
It was inevitable that 2015 Sundance Award-winning doc Dark Horse would become a feature film. How could it not? What with its true story...
Review: ‘Seance’Suki Waterhouse Shines In A Supernatural Slasher Flick From The Writer Of 'You're...
If you know the name Simon Barrett at all, it's probably due to the work he's done with Adam Wingard on two excellent thrillers:...
Review: ‘The Perfect Candidate’Haifaa al-Mansour Gets Back To Her Hopeful, Empowering Roots
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Candidate is open in select area theaters now.*
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