ScreenAnarchy: Reviews

FIGHTLAND Review: Strap On for a Wild Ride

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Howard Charles, Nicholas Pinnock, and Deborah Ayorinde star in the dynamic crime drama series from executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, debuting on Starz.

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Fantasia 2026 Review: CORPUS, Languid Queer Thriller Delivers a Killer Horror Payoff

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:35:00 -0500

Sayo photographs New York’s nightlife, dealing drugs to partygoers at clubs and generally stays out of trouble with the owners of those clubs with free samples. Life takes a spin when he learns that Vince, an old friend whose star is on the rise in Hollywood, is back in town. Sayo also happens to have a massive crush on Vince. Time moves slowly with each picture Sayo takes and it almost grinds to a halt when Vince shows up at the club that night. Old passions are rekindled; Sayo does not know if he is coming or going. He tries to keep distance between Vince and himself despite past desires igniting once again. Vince invites Sayo and their friend Ross to a party upstate,...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: OUR EFFED UP WORLD, Alice Maio Mackay's Hang Out Movie... With Aliens!

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:20:54 -0500

Australian wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay returns to the director’s chair for her eighth feature film, Our Effed Up World, celebrating its Canadian premiere at this year’s Fantasia. A science-fiction story about a group of young adults fighting off an alien invasion in the midst of life changing events that have already knocked them all off balance, Mackay has created an adrenaline spiked hang out movie that perhaps works better when it shifts its focus away from the danger. There was no one more important in Sherri’s (Sara Thompson) life than her grandmother, Grace (Kerry Armstrong), so when cancer claimed her hero, Sherri’s life suddenly turned grey. She spends her days making sure her workaholic scientist father, Hank (Scott Major), remembers to eat, having banal, unsatisfying...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY, It's Nazi Killin' Time Again

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:05:11 -0500

One of genre cinema’s most unexpected franchises expands beyond its humble roots in Jenn Wexler’s The Last Temptation of Becky. The titular teen with a serious attitude problem is off to Poland this time, when a Nazi scion with dreams of global domination comes across her radar. The action is just as bloody, but definitely a little sillier than its predecessors’ in this raucous revenge thriller. At the end of 2023’s The Wrath of Becky, our heroine (Lulu Wilson) was approached by CIA agent Kate Montana (Kate Siegel) to become the agency’s youngest specialist, an offer she accepted. We now find her several years later as the CIA’s most notorious problem child, barreling through intricately planned espionage missions with the grace of a bull in...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: BEASTS CLUTCHING AT STRAWS, A Sack Of Cash Causes Problems In This Black Comedy Thriller

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:45:40 -0500

A desperately unpopular streamer with a dementia-stricken mother, a crooked cop, a duplicitous femme fatale, and a sack full of money collide in director Jojo Hideo's Beasts Clutching at Straws, an adaptation of the Sone Keisuke novel previously filmed by Korean filmmaker Kim Yong-hoon in 2020. Kanji (Ouji Suzuka) works the reception desk at an internet cafe, but his real passion is streaming fresh content for a following of over a dozen local college students. While cleaning up a private booth after a mysterious patron skips the bill, he stumbles onto a sack full of cash, one hundred million yen to be exact. Being a dutiful employee, he puts it with the other items in the lost and found, but it isn't too long before...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: INSECTASY, Are You Into Bugs?

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:09:24 -0500

Sadie is horny. Really horny. She has let real life, either working at the walk-in-clinic as a receptionist, or hanging out with her friends, fade into the background like radio-static, only half awares and mostly filtered out. She only thinks about sex and bugs. Sex reinforced via the whisper sultry podcast she always has in her ear, and insects through the brightly lit macro-cinematography, extreme close ups of creepy crawlies peppered through the film. She can only get herself off by having crickets walking on her bare skin at the penultimate second, or three, before orgasm. (It is notable that the word bug can also mean mania.) She has presumably worked out the details on self pleasure, her kink, by containing the insects in...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: LEVITATING, Get Swept Up In This Ecstatic Vision Of Folk Cinema

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:30:15 -0500

The drums pound, the guitar drones, the flute splashes a chaotic layer of color over it all as the guru chants, the spirit addicts undulate, enraptured by their ecstatic trance, directed by the spirits of the Indonesian jungle. This vision of chaos that opens Wregas Bhanuteja’s magical realist folk fable, Levitating, sets the scene for what is one of Fantasia’s most eye-opening surprises of the year. A coming-of-age story about a young man following his dreams and the battle he fights to achieve them against all odds. A truly unique gem that utilizes familiar film tropes in a search for meaning against the pressures of modernization. Bayu (Angga Yunanda) is a young man with the weight of the world on his shoulders. His rural town...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: FERINE, A Stunning Feature Debut From Andrea Corsini

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:30:18 -0500

Motherhood is a beast in first time feature filmmaker Andrea Corsini’s lush Italian psychological horror stunner, Ferine, celebrating its international premiere at this year’s Fantasia. Bolstered by a captivating lead performance from Oddity’s Carolyn Bracken and an unforgettable score from the fresh out of retirement Pino Donaggio, Ferine is set to make waves on the festival circuit with its fearsome look at what it takes to be a mother. Art collector Irene (Bracken) is finally ready to leave the fast pace of the art world behind and settle into life as a mother. Unable to conceive on her own, she reaches out to Rosa (Paola Lavini) to arrange a private adoption at her secretive maternity clinic. The process doesn’t turn out exactly as Irene planned,...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: NIGHTBORN, A Mother's Dream Turned Folk Horror Nightmare

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:45:05 -0500

Saga’s (Seidi Haarla) blissful fantasies of motherhood are upended when her and her husband Jon’s (Rupert Grint) son turns out to be a bit more difficult than they were expecting in Hanna Bergholm’s sophomore feature, Nightborn. Following up on her 2022 Sundance selection, Hatching, Bergholm establishes herself as one of Europe’s most talented up and coming filmmakers with this duo about the unseen challenges of parenthood and the chaos they can bring. The baby crazy couple have decided to put their lives in the city behind them to move out to Saga’s grandmother’s cottage in the Finnish woods. Even in its current state, overtaken by the surrounding forest and barely held together by rotting wood, Saga is enamored. She sees the home she remembers from...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: NIKO, All Night Pretentious Delight

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Cyber-punk adjacent, arthouse romance, pop-philosophical musing Niko debuts K-pop Girls' Generation member, Tiffany Young in the titular role as a woman who runs a business hiring herself out to comfort and talk to people who have locked themselves out of their apartment. The city is in some sort ongoing, but very loosely enforced, government curfew. The locksmiths are busy helping get people off the streets. Niko’s niche business is fine, but hardly booming, and she cannot continue to pay her bar tab or her rent. Even supplementing her income with a day job as a street vendor selling candy floss to passers by is not enough. In the moments between, she spends time drinking with her sad, but very hot and very French...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: YOU ARE THE FILM, A Meta-Cinema Romance That Tears a Hole in the Universe

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:02:09 -0500

As someone who typically goes to the movies on a Sunday night for the 10:30pm show, and typically to go watch the stranger side of cinema, I am often given a ‘private screening’ from the local Cineplex chain. Because, seriously, who else living in the suburbs would go see Terrence Malick's The New World, Paul Cox's Innocence, Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea, or Bruce McDonald's Pontypool at that odd hour? In short, I love being in a movie auditorium alone and having the place all to myself for just about any film. Clearly, I am not at all alone in this aspect, as Ueda Makoto, the writer of charming and inventive time loop films, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River, sets his directorial debut...

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SHEEP IN THE BOX Review: Tale of Not So Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:32:07 -0500

It is indeed a perilous fate to be a film festival darling. On the one hand, sure, you might have a standing invitation for your next work in one of the “Big Five”. The downside is that, after a while, everyone starts believing they know what this new work should and shouldn’t be, as they’ve come to expect certain things. It would seem that Hirokazu Koreeda, the author of Shoplifters and Monster, has become the latest victim of this phenomenon. His latest film, Sheep in the Box, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, has been met with mostly reserved or outright negative reviews, most of which cite the lack of originality and the absence of true emotion in the...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: PERMANENT DAMAGE, A Loosey-Goosey, Drug-Addled, Hanging-Out Thriller On Housing Insecurity

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:00 -0500

Reborn in the opening scene by tearing his way out of a black garbage bag after being tossed in the trash from a prison van, Tommy irrevocably changes his life through a chance encounter in a Dollarama, the house of poverty. Helping an old woman — appropriately named Mrs. Whynot — get home with her purchases. Once inside, Tommy takes on the role of her surrogate son, Donnie, and moves into her house, a dilapidated/hoarder Dartmouth rowhome, with an eccentric number of characters, and lots of detritus on the front lawn. Standing in the way of the demolition of the complex, or perhaps renovating it towards future gentrification, is aggro-arsehole, drug dealer, and would-be kingpin LL Plísek. He has a bumper sticker on his contractor truck...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: ANCESTRAL BEASTS, An Indigenous Creature Feature About Generational Trauma

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:00:05 -0500

Generational trauma manifests as a deadly creepy crawler in Tim Riedel’s debut feature, Ancestral Beasts, which just celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia. Set among the indigenous Métis community, the film is a glowing reminder of the festival’s commitment to not only Canadian film, but specifically indigenous films and filmmakers. Elyse Poitras (Morgan Holmstrom) is going through a real rough patch. The sudden and shocking loss of her mother amplified an already tense relationship with her toxic sister, Nikki (Darla Contois), sending Elyse running back to her family’s rural home, a place she hadn’t laid eyes on in years. What was intended to be a healing respite from the pressures of her new life turns sour when she discovers that she’s not the...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: TIGHT LETTUCE, Addiction Both Binds and Tears Families Apart

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

There are many kinds of addiction stories on film, from the invigorating buddy shenanigans of Transpotting to the stylish personal infernos of Requiem For A Dream to the gritty autobiographical redemption arc of The Basketball Diaries. Harrison Houde’s Tight Lettuce discovers a novel, more intimately Canadian character-driven narrative by way of a multi-generational family-on-hold tragicomedy. One that achieves a heartbreaking melancholy via the unrestrained joy and laughter, against the stark failures of its central character. Tooling around on his decalled moped on rural roads somewhere near the Ontario-Quebec border with a shit-eating grin on his face, seemingly without a care in the world, we meet Bodo in all his exuberant glory. An ex-roofer, ex-husband, and almost ex-father to his only child, Joel, Bodo’s dabbling with heroin...

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SMOKING BEHIND THE SUPERMARKET WITH YOU Review: Cigarettes Spark Uncertain Yet Smoldering, Troubling Romance

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:02:04 -0500

Crunchyroll's series takes a far different approach to the smoking habit, compared to Netflix's crass take in 'Chainsmoker Cat.'

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS S4 Review: Reinvigorated, And It Feels So Good

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:00:03 -0500

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, and Rebecca Romijn lead the prequel series on a new series of jaunty adventures.

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CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH 4K Review: Anger and Desire in Post-War Japan

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0500

In western cinema, the 1950s and 1960s are often portrayed as a time of youth in revolt: the birth of a teenager as a particular cultural and social entity, and with it, the problems of education, social life, work, and integration into society, or resistance to that. But it wasn't just an issue of the west. Japan had its own situation around young people. The generation that grew up in the aftermath of World War Two and what that meant for Japan, often found themselves at odds with their parents and those in power. And many filmmakers responded with stories of that generation. Criterion Collection has reissued one of the key films of that era with a new 4K restoration, Cruel Story of Youth. Oshima Nagisa's...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: PENNY LANE IS DEAD Is Not For The Weak Of Heart

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:49:45 -0500

A celebratory girls’ night at the family beach house devolves into a night of unrelenting, brutal terror in Penny Lane is Dead, the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Mia’Kate Russell. A blood-soaked throwback to the wild days of ‘80s Ozploitation, this Adelaide set revenge thriller pulls no punches in delivering one of the meanest, grimiest, most nihilistic entries in the rape-revenge canon in recent years. Prepare yourselves for this one, it’s not for the weak of heart. Penny Lane (Bailey Spalding) just got into university and she has convinced her mother to let her and her friends, the Joan Jett-coded rough and tumble, Toni (Tahlee Fereday) and big softie Amy (Alexandra Jensen), use the family cottage for an evening of low-key fun. Unfortunately, they won’t...

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THE DINK Review: Hit It Slow and Soft, But Funny

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, and Ed Harris star in Apple TV's pickleball comedy from director Josh Greenbaum ('Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar').

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THE PATRIOT, ERASER, and More Action-Heavy Arrivals to Home Video

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

New home video releases of action films headlined by Schwarzenegger, Gibson, Berenger, and Beetz!

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TALES OF THE WILD WEST: COLLECTION TWO Celebrates Five Underseen Westerns from the 60s and 70s

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Charlton Heston, William Holden, and Kirk Douglas headline five memorable but underseen Westerns.

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Fantasia 2026 Review: ATTACK ON PARADISE, A Belgian Single Setting Siege Story With Heart

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:30:39 -0500

In a dystopic corner of urban Antwerp stands Paradise, a ten-story apartment block that houses some of the baddest dudes and dudettes in all of Belgium. Packed to the gills with drug hustlers, arms dealers, illicit brothels, and every other brand of seedy, dangerous commerce you can imagine, Paradise is a thorn in the side of the authorities and the time has come to bring it all down. Unfortunately for Suleyman (Saïd Boumazoughe), it is also home to an ailing mother he hasn’t seen in seven years after he was arrested for killing a cop in a contentious confrontation while bringing home her diabetes medication late one night. The day that Suleyman returns to Paradise is also unfortunately the day that Belgian special forces have...

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AFTER DARK FOUR Collects Six Neo-Noir Gems from the 1990s

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

New boxset featuring six noir classics including 'Unlawful Entry' in its 4K debut and the highly underrated remake of 'The Getaway.'

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PRESIDENT CURTIS Review: This Is an Elected Official I Can Support

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:10 -0500

Keith David, Stephanie Beatriz, and Jim Rash star in the new 'Rick and Morty' spin-off series from co-creators Dan Harmon and James Siciliano.

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Karlovy Vary 2026 Review: 3 WEEKS AFTER Turns High-School Cruelty Into Social Horror

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:17:03 -0500

Miroslav Terzić's high-school drama pairs Ruben Östlund's austere formalism with Hanekean social horror in a study of adolescent cruelty and social exclusion, punctuated by unexpected mannerist flourishes.

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Fantasia 2026 Review: TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, Bold Queer Exploration

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:32:11 -0500

Opening with flesh and blood, Jane Schoenbrun's latest work, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is a continuation of the queer exploration found in their previous films, We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, yet more as a bold, confrontational breakthrough. Hannah Einbinder plays Kris, a talented young filmmaker and devoted fan of the cult horror franchise ‘Camp Miasma’, who is directing its latest remake and finally living out her dream. Her journey leads her to Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), the actress who played the ‘final girl’ in the original film and is still living in the very house where it was shot. Sitting by the fireplace, sharing stories and KFC, the two form a tender connection through...

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Fantasia 2026 Review: HER PRIVATE HELL, A Nightmare Neon Opera

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:32:10 -0500

At one point in Nicolas Winding Refn’s oblique, morally agnostic, performatively high-camp melodrama, a character pontificates, “You know, this movie is not going to fix us.” They are probably right. The director is far more interested in mise-en-scène still-lives over coherent storytelling in his latest film, Her Private Hell. Like the mist that hides the neo-futuristic (and simultaneously retro-futuristic) city of glass towers, there is little, narratively to hang onto, but plenty of handsome imagery. The movie is a neon dream which nods to late 1960s couture-classics like Barbarella and Danger Diabolik, the black-gloved Giallos of Mario Bava and Dario Argento, and the contradictory, dystopian urban architecture of Blade Runner. Exteriors are drenched in pink and blue, and interiors ooze warm yellows...

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40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE Review: Pirate Radio Doc Highlights Long Lost Punk Era

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Punk doesn’t just mean rebellion against a generalized status quo or — in James Gunn’s semi-controversial, avowedly earnest, unironic definition in last year’s Superman reboot— kindness. At its core, punk also means opposition to the Powers-That-Be, to corporate capitalism and its defenders, to a people-first, profits-last attitude, a way of life or an ethos that rejects reactionary complacency and embraces activism, both personal and collective. Punk as a potent symbol of dissent and resistance also describes filmmaker Sue Carpenter’s behind-the-scenes documentary, 40 Watts From Nowhere. Produced by actor-musician Jack Black, 40 Watts From Nowhere chronicles the all-too-brief, brilliant life, not unexpected, precipitous fall, and sudden demise of Carpenter’s sandwich-inspired pirate radio station, KBLT, during a tumultuous socio-cultural era, specifically the Los Angeles-based, post-punk...

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Karlovy Vary 2026 Review: THE GUEST Serves Nordic Cringe as Family Dramedy

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:02:10 -0500

A restrained yet incisive Nordic tragicomedy, The Guest spins the dysfunctional-family drama for a millennial generation through claustrophobic staging, corrosive microaggressions, and Trine Dyrholm's meticulously ambiguous performance.

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ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE 4K Review: Ellen Burstyn Makes a Meal Out of Martin Scorsese's Women-First Picture

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, and Kris Kristofferson star, with Harvey Keitel, Diane Ladd, Vic Tayback, and Jodie Foster.

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THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Not Worth Embarking On

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Chris Pine stars in Carolina Cavalli's new kidnapping dramedy.

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THE ODYSSEY Review: Potent As Political Message, Flawed As Entertainment

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:12 -0500

Christopher Nolan's new film stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Benny Safdie, and a cast of thousands.

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STEAL AWAY Review: Contemporary Fairy Tale Explores the Dark and the Harsh

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

The words uttered at the beginning of a story don't have to be precisely 'Once upon a time' to lure the audience into a fairy tale. But the form continues to resonate for a reason: we understand that such a story is a truth wrapped in a fable, one in which some kind of supernatural or fantastical element can stand in to explore that which is dark and harsh in our own world. Especially if that fairy tale adheres to how dark and often horrific the originals were. Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo, even in his more 'realistic' work such as Brother and The Book of Negroes, has always tinged his work with something that hints at the dark fantastic of the world, so it's nor surprising that he...

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THE CRYING GAME 4K Review: The View Beyond the Twist

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Neil Jordan's 1992 masterpiece has only deepened in courage and complexity in the years since.

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LUCKY Review: Percolating With Criminal Tension

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:00:09 -0500

Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, and Timothy Olyphant star in the Apple TV crime drama series, with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Fichtner.

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FID Marseille 2026 Review: MOTHER, YOU HAVE NOT DIED YET. BUT YOU WILL. AND WHEN YOU DO, YOU WILL FINALLY BE ALIVE AGAIN, Impressionistic Take on Grief and History

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Directed by Advik Beni. Merging past and present, personal and historical, the film has a quality of a lucid dream.

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New York Asian 2026 Review: COLONY Puts Yeon Song-ho Back In The Undead Driver's Seat

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:00:39 -0500

Zombies in a mall, you say? It’s been done before but leave it to Korean genre master Yeon Song-ho to take everything you think you know about the living dead and crank it up to eleven and you’ve got another certified classic in Colony, enjoying its North American premiere this weekend at the New York Asian Film Festival. Colony opens at a biotech conference taking place and the Dongwoori high rise complex. One floor hosts tech talks while various other levels host a number of shopping and office spaces. While a keynote speaker extols the endless possibilities of adapting natural biocommunication among slime moulds as a way of moving medical science forward, the rest of the building goes on about their business. What no one...

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GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS Review: One Of The Year's Funniest Films Is Here

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:05:54 -0500

When her fiancé Tom (Michael Cassidy) cashes in his celebrity hall pass in the back room of a local bookstore, poor Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is heartbroken. What was once a whimsical thought exercise has now become very real. The only way to make things right is for her to even the score with her famous crush, Mad Men hunk, Jon Hamm. It won’t be easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is in David Wain’s Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Co-written by Wain and Ken Marino of The State and Wet Hot American Summer fame, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is a loving and knowing nod to the glamour and nonsense of Hollywood. The film takes a ridiculous tour of Tinseltown through...

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MOANA (2026) Review: Bland, Dull, Lifeless Live-Action Remake

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:02:09 -0500

Unnecessary. Redundant. Superfluous. Three English-language words that describe the same or similar experience in life or fiction. Any one of those words, alone or collectively, can also describe Moana, the less-than-anticipated live-action remake of the 10-year-old animated hit that enthralled audiences in theaters and has done likewise at home since its release. The original animated film proved so popular that it almost spawned an animated series. Instead, Disney scrapped those plans and pushed forward with developing the aptly named sequel, Moana 2, just two years ago. With an overwhelmingly inescapable feeling of “too much, too soon” permeating every aspect of its preproduction, production, and now release, the live-action remake once again stars Dwayne Johnson as Maui, an egocentric, worship-seeking trickster demi-god on a...

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WESTHAMPTON Review: Dry Humor, Bittersweet Irony, Inherently Messy

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:02:03 -0500

Christian Nilsson's drama stars Finn Wittrock, RJ Mitte, Jake Weary, Amy Forsyth, Sam Strike, Mary Mallen, Joy Suprano, Dan Lauria, Roxanne Schiebergen, Tovah Feldshuh, Ritchie Coster.

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Now Streaming: MEBIUS DUST, Breaking Free

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:02:02 -0500

Young people who have been empowered by meteorites seek to break free from government restrictions. Is that a good idea?

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Now Streaming: CHAINSMOKER CAT, Gleefully Running on Nicotine

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Tobacco addiction is happily embraced by a young woman, but a reckoning may be coming.

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Now Streaming: TOMB RAIDER KING, Hunting Relics in the Future

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:32:02 -0500

One minute you're fighting a dragon, the next minute you're in a police station, filing a report.

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EVIL DEAD BURN Review: The Deadites Finally Flame Out In The Series' First Dud

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:21:19 -0500

The Deadites are back – kind of – in director Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn, the sixth feature film entry in the long running horror franchise. A direct follow-up to 2013’s Evil Dead and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead Burn follows a grieving family to their doomed home in the woods following the untimely death of restauranteur, Will. But family tension will soon take a back seat to gritty survival horror when undead demons crash this family reunion in typically gory Evil Dead Fashion. Will (George Pullar) and Alice’s (Souheila Yacoub) marriage is on the rocks. At first glance it looks like typical passive-aggressive jabs have just built to an unsustainable volume, but when a drunk Will escapes from his brother Joseph’s (Hunter Doohan)...

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Now Streaming: THE GHOST IN THE SHELL Hearkens Back to the 90s

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:32:06 -0500

The new anime adaptation may be quite nostalgic for some, confusing for others.

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Now Streaming: RED RIVER, Stranger in a Strange Land

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:02:05 -0500

A young woman seeks accommodation after being whisked away from everything she knows.

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Now Streaming: YOUNG LADIES DON'T PLAY FIGHTING GAMES, Sister Street Fighter at Elite Girls' School

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:12:03 -0500

A scholarship student meets a highly-admired, very popular model student. What could they have in common?

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DARK BLUE Review: Bringing Kurt Russell's Dark Side to 4K UHD

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Kurt Russell and Scott Speedman embrace police corruption in Ron Shelton's 'Dark Blue'

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Now Streaming: IRON WOK JAN!, When Cooking Is a Competition

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:02:03 -0500

The top Chinese restaurant in Tokyo is challenged by a new chef.

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