Category Archives: Film Review

Send Help (2026) Review

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

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Hamnet (2025) Review

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The Rip (2026) Review

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The Toxic Avenger (2023/25)

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)

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)

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

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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Review in Brief: The Shrouds (2024/25)

David Cronenberg plumbs his real-life grief trauma to fuel one of the most twisted yet affecting sci-fi horrors for years. Following his invention of technology allowing mourners to view a live feed of their loved ones’ decomposing body from their … Continue reading

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Review

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