John Cena Goes Full Supervillain and Insults Children on This Week’s Explosive ‘WWE Raw,’ Plus More Highlights You May Have Missed
Tonight, WWE Raw broadcast live from Brussels, Belgium as part of a three-week tour to Europe on the road to WrestleMania 41. We were promised that John Cena and Cody Rhodes would appear under the same roof, and boy, it…
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Kate Mara’s Sci-Fi Thriller Has Sky-High Ambitions, but Not the Reach
Jess Varley's feature debut, The Astronaut, is captivating science fiction that delivers efficient extraterrestrial chills—until it's not. We love an ambitious genre-bender and fearless storytelling, of course. Kate Mara is a fantastic leading talent and has stalked the horror genre…
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One of China’s Classical Novels Is Getting an Ambitious Animated Film Trilogy
Journey to the West has been adapted multiple times since it was first published in the 16th century, but this story holds relevance to this day as it was announced that it will receive a film trilogy. Variety reported that…
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Eiza González and Aaron Paul Lead a Funky Sci-Fi Horror That Steals From the Greats
Despite only having two features and two short films under his belt, musician-turned-director Flying Lotus has already found a specific niche as a filmmaker. His 2017 debut Kuso combined the darkest of dark comedy, raunchiness, and loads of gross-out body…
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The Boys’ Colby Minifie Is Impressive In A Chilling Supernatural Horror About Grief That Had Much More To Give
The Surrender is a journey. It instantly drew me into the story as it centered on a mother-daughter relationship that was fraught long before the patriarch’s final days, the reason Megan (Colby Minifie) returns to her childhood home. Writer-director Julia…
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A Solid, Twisted Debut From Jimmy Warden
Jimmy Warden’s Borderline is a high-wire act of genre blending, balancing dark comedy with home invasion thrills in an audacious, if at times inconsistent, directorial debut. Anchored by a committed performance from Samara Weaving and a genuinely unsettling turn by…
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Matthew McConaughey Neo-Western Dramedy Is Far More Than Just “Alright, Alright, Alright”
Made on a budget of just $700,000, Andrew Patterson's directorial debut The Vast of Night was quite an impressive feat. The Twilight Zone-inspired sci-fi mystery followed two young radio technicians who found a strange audio frequency stemming from a UFO,…
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From Solving Puzzles To Solving Murders, This Is One Charming Show
In this era when it’s difficult to turn one’s head without being bombarded by a barrage of news more distressing than what graced headlines the day prior or a new horrific global event worse than the last, there’s nothing like…
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A Genuinely Haunting Sci-Fi Thriller That Filled Me With Chilling Dread But Left Me Wanting More
Ash is unsettling, I’ll give it that much. Flying Lotus, who directed the film, knows how to set the tone for what’s to come and I was instantly drawn into the mystery. Visually, the film is wondrous yet creepy and…
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A Camgirl by Any Other Name
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Watson Episode 6.Watson finally hit its stride last week, and with Episode 6, “The Camgirl Inquiry,” the series is proving there’s a lot of truth to the sentiment that the best is…
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We Knew This Moment Was Coming, but We Still Weren’t Prepared for It
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 5. A missing gun looms over the newest episode of The White Lotus Season 3, as the closing scenes of the previous episode gave us a…
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An Emotionally Vacant Sci-Fi Misfire
You would think that after helming the once-in-a-lifetime cinematic event Avengers: Endgame, directors Anthony and Joe Russo would cement themselves as two of the best filmmakers in the industry but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Their efforts since that…
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