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“Underwater,” is a film whose marketing campaign is doing it no favors. Going into it, after having seen the trailers,…

The long awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” (the sequel to the classic “The Shining“) is a really pretty solid flick for what it is. It should be expressed, however, that what this represents isn’t another horrific delving into a psychological breakdown, but rather a somewhat more adventure-based thriller with aspects of horror […]

“Ford v Ferrari” is the kind of studio vehicle that feels like it was engineered to earn award nominations nearly as much as the Ford GT40 was tailor-made to compete at Le Mans. From its leads Matt Damon and Christian Bale as race-car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles, to the slow establishment of […]

“Terminator,” like “Alien” and “Halloween,” has been a storied franchise; a classic original and a highly regarded second installment, only to have its various follow-on sequels be far less successful. Now we’ve arrived at movie number 6 with “Terminator: Dark Fate,” and finally have something that can be looked on as a suitable successor to the […]

Let me open up by saying that “Countdown” is not by any stretch a bad film. It’s got some decent runs of jump scares as well as tension, however its PG-13 rating keeps it firmly rooted on the lighter side of the “blood and gore” rating’s fence. As a first time feature film outing by […]

Ang Lee is a director with a respectable track record behind him, with the likes of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, and “Life of Pi”.  Now he’s back helming “Gemini Man” with a script co-penned by “Game of Thrones” co-showrunner David Benioff and starring Will Smith and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a […]

Let’s get this right out of the way at the start – “Joker” is a brilliantly executed film with a central performance that will without a doubt garner Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar nomination. That said, this is as far a cry from the Joker’s we’ve ever seen before as Heath Ledger was from Cesar Romero. […]

When you get around to the third film of an action franchise, there needs as with each installment to be something that happens to push the stakes (or at least the action) further than before. We need to continue to care about the characters at least enough to have us stick around for a few […]

Quentin Tarantino is one of cinema’s contemporary auteurs. When you’re going into a Tarantino film, you have a strong sense of what you’re in for – a highly stylized, violent, mythic version of the world. His pantheon of “Kill Bill,” “Hateful Eight,” “Django Unchained,” “Pulp Fiction,” and others all fit into that genre. Now with […]

When Ari Aster hit the scene last year with his feature film debut, Hereditary, he made an immediate mark with horror critics by setting what many took to be a fresh approach to his pacing and tone. Now he’s back with his sophomore outing, Midsommar, and his unique approach continues to evolve and in its […]