Movies

Shane Black is going back home to revive the dormant franchise with The Predator, a big-budget sequel/reboot that aims for the stars and falls far, far too short.

Mandy is overwhelmingly a campy revenge thriller that celebrates the unique Cage-ness of Nicolas Cage’s more unhinged, bizarre performances.

From a structural standpoint, you never get a great sense of where Peppermint is going after that 45-minute mark.

The Nun is the fifth film in the series, the second spin-off film, and probably the movie with the least amount of narrative substance given its starting material.

The Happytime Murders has been slammed by many Muppet-centric fan sites as being way too vulgar and shocking.

In indie horror short film, Heartless, our dear killer knows the rules of getting away with murder, but will she?

The Meg has enough awareness, payoffs, and fun to stay afloat and be a better B-movie.

BlackkKlansman and Sorry to Bother You are each unique and fun but with larger messages to say about the black experience and other fissures within our volatile society.

Simply put, Mission Impossible: Fallout is the best straightforward action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road.

Sorry To Bother You lives in the daily lives of workers who are realizing that they deserve more.

The Theta Girl subverts traditional horror tropes to deliver a genre-bending masterpiece that will be discussed for years to come.

The documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen offers a retrospective on the man, his work, and the idiosyncrasies that made both great.

This is the first Purge movie to exist in the era of President Donald J. Trump, and that has made the films more political and even more oddly relevant.

If you’re looking for silly, lighthearted escapism, Ant-Man and the Wasp is a superhero flick with entertainment as its top priority.

Digitally remastered for the first time on HD VOD, blaxploitation classics from the stable of Xenon Pictures - including “The Citizen Kane of kung-fu pimpin’ movies” Dolemite!

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom may be the dumbest yet, and while it does have moments of fun and excitement, the dumb outweighs all else.

I’m happy to report that Incredibles 2, while not soaring to the exact heights of its predecessor, is still a very worthy sequel that even manages to outshine the original in select areas.

If you can hang onto the final nightmarish act, that’s when Hereditary is at its best, finally picking up a sense of momentum and finality.

Revenge is a grisly, gory, and wild genre movie that will appeal to fans of indie thrillers but also extend behind that loyal clientele.

Solo is hard to justify except as an increasingly tedious appeasement to the greater altar of fan service.