Category Archives: Film

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2025

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Sam S-P

Making movies certainly never gets any easier. Arguably the industry has never faced as many challenges as it currently is just to survive. Rich people wanting to get richer no matter the cost, powerful people quashing freedom of expression and … Continue reading →

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Send Help (2026) Review

Posted on February 10, 2026 by Sam S-P

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Double Feature: The Wrecking Crew and Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) Reviews

Posted on February 5, 2026 by Sam S-P

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Hamnet (2025) Review

Posted on January 27, 2026 by Sam S-P

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The Rip (2026) Review

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Sam S-P

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The Toxic Avenger (2023/25)

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Sam S-P

Macon Blair’s Troma remix has plenty of squelchy gore and grotesquery, as well as good work from Peter Dinklage, but it never strikes quite the right tonal balance as the original. A terminally ill janitor (Dinklage) runs afoul of corporate … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Sam S-P

The main problem with FIRE AND ASH isn’t the unimpeachable visuals or James Cameron’s earnestness, it’s the repetition. The latest chapter of Jake and Neytiri’s (Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña) story on the verdant planet of Pandora sees them confront … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: One Battle After Another (2025)

Posted on January 6, 2026 by Sam S-P

By all rights, a film so timely, so powerfully relevant, shouldn’t be this entertaining as well. It’s disheartening to see how little the world has changed in the decade and a half the film takes place over; evil never dies, … Continue reading →

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Second Cut’s Top 10 Films of 2025

Posted on January 1, 2026 by Sam S-P

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Review in Brief: The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Sam S-P

Much like the similarly rural Wales-set BRIAN & CHARLES, THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND is an elliptical, low-key and bittersweet tale of lost souls finding meaning. Rich superfan Charles (Tim Key) underhandedly reunites former musical and romantic partners Herb (Tom … Continue reading →

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