Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After, which debuted on May 27, 2025, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios was certainly a show where the technology outshined the performances as this visually spectacular show focuses on some of Disney’s most infamous antagonists.Unfairly Ever After…
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A few months ago, I reviewed The Parenting, a sharp, witty, and very entertaining horror-comedy, and I examined the horror-comedy spectrum and how different movies position themselves at points throughout that spectrum. It usually makes for a very amusing blend…
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Dangerous Animals was a particularly intriguing movie for me as a Jai Courtney apologist. When Hollywood was testing Courtney as a leading man, he was let down by the vehicles designed for this purpose, mainly the poorly reviewed legacy sequels…
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2017's The Ritual, directed by David Bruckner, is one of the best horror films of the last decade. 2025's The Ritual, co-written and directed by David Midell, and starring the likes of Al Pacino and Dan Stevens, is the exact…
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From Gerald’s Game to Doctor Sleep, few modern filmmakers have a better grasp on Stephen King than Mike Flanagan. Even with an original story like Midnight Mass, you can see the influence that Flanagan drew from King. The Life of…
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By the midpoint of “A Useful Ghost,” when a refrigerator and a vacuum cleaner throw down in an all-out brawl, audiences should be well attuned to its kooky, droll wavelength. Thai cinema might be best known to festival audiences through…
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I'm a sucker for those doomed road trip horror movies. A gang of friends, a pair of siblings, a couple on the brink of the next, or last, step in their relationship, loading up the van and seeing where the…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5. Season 2 of The Walking Dead: The Dead City has been a bit of a slog to get through this time around. After…
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A revenge Western about a woman on a bloody, violent mission will always garner interest, so it is quite tragic when a film with such a simple story crumbles. Trail of Vengeance is based on true tales from the Old…
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There’s a scene with a puppet show in “Tornado” where the storyteller narrates the thematic underpinning of his story, explaining his villain’s motivation for his murderous deeds as “the most evil of all reasons: no reason at all.” It’s an…
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As a devoted fan of the Fear Street trilogy—a trilogy that delivered a fresh, blood-soaked revival of R.L. Stine’s teen horror for a new generation—I approached Fear Street: Prom Queen with genuine anticipation. The 2021 Netflix trilogy (1994, 1978, and…
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“You can’t break up something that’s already broken. The only way to destroy it is to actually fix it,” Emily Haines of Metric and Broken Social Scene says in the new music rock doc about BSS, “It’s All Gonna Break.”…
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