Category Archives: Film
The Bride! (2026) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut
Tagged Bride of Frankenstein, Christian Bale, Film, Jessie Buckley, Mary Shelley, Monster Movie, Musical, The Bride!
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Sam’s Oscar Best Picture Catch-up
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged A Beautiful Mind, Academy Awards, All the King’s Men, An American in Paris, Around the World in 80 Days, Cavalcade, Cimarron, Driving Miss Daisy, Gentleman’s Agreement, Gigi, Going My Way, Grand Hotel, Hamlet, How Green Was My Valley, Kramer vs. Kramer, Marty, Million Dollar Baby, Mrs. Miniver, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oscars, Out of Africa, Patton, Rain Man, Terms of Endearment, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Broadway Melody, The English Patient, The Great Ziegfeld, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Life of Emile Zola
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Trainspotting (1996) 30th Anniversary Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut
Tagged Black Comedy, Danny Boyle, Drama, Ewan Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Irvine Welsh, Robert Carlyle, T2 Trainspotting, Trainspotting
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2025
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
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged 2025 Film, 28 Years Later, Bring Her Back, Flow, Frankenstein, Girl with the Needle, I Swear, I’m Still Here, Last Swim, Marty Supreme, Nosferatu, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Sorry Baby, The Brutalist, The Last Showgirl, The Life of Chuck, The Phoenician Scheme, The Shrouds, The Ugly Stepsister, Train Dreams
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Send Help (2026) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut
Tagged Dark Comedy, Dylan O’Brien, Movies, Rachel McAdams, Sam Raimi, Send Help, Survival Movie, Thriller
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Hamnet (2025) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut
Tagged Chloé Zhao, Drama, Hamlet, Hamnet, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Period Drama, William Shakespeare
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The Rip (2026) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, Second Cut
Tagged Action Movie, Ben Affleck, Joe Carnahan, Matt Damon, Netflix, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, The Rip, Thriller
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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
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Comedy, Elijah Wood, Horror, Kevin Bacon, Macon Blair, Peter Dinklage, Superhero Movie, The Toxic Avenger
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