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What happens when a horror film knows exactly how to get under your skin… but maybe doesn’t fully know what to do once it’s there? That was kind of my experience with Undertone , the new A24 horror-thriller directed by Ian Tuason and starring Nina Kiri and Adam DiMarco. This is a movie with atmosphere for days. Genuine dread. Real unease. The kind of film that can make you stare into the darkest corner of your room a little longer than usual after the credits roll. And for a

Honey Bunch is a relatively new outing featured on Shudder that I had kept passing over for several days due to reasons I will get into in the Ups and Downs. It just kind of sat there on the New Releases screen if I scrolled enough to the right on the AMC+ home page. And I'd look at it, and I'd hem and haw, and I'd end up saying "Not today" and move on. I'm honestly not sure what it was the finally drew me to the new horror feature other than that Shudder has an even newer

I produce my own fan-voted movie awards every year.  Previously known as “The Golden Peas,” THE GARAGE AWARDS   WINNERS have been announced in 11 film categories. The nominees were selected from a “short list” of possibilities by a select committee of 32 individuals who are fellow critics, movie lovers and channel members of The Awards Garage on YouTube. Click here for more information. All the nominees, along with each category winner are listed below, and all these winners

It's been a rough year so far with catching new release movies for me. After having seen a personal best 117 new release movies in 2025, as of early March, I was only up to nine here in 2026. I've seen loads of late-2025 flicks, sure! But precious few films that have come out this calendar year. It hasn't been for a lack of trying; there just hasn't been a lot of worthwhile stuff released in this part of the year, the part often considered the dregs of the cinematic calendar.

From the very first frame, Scarlet  (2025)  announces itself with confidence. The animation is flat-out gorgeous—bold in its color design, fluid in its motion, and constantly finding new ways to make a familiar kind of story feel freshly haunted. And yes, I’m always going to show up for a good revenge tale. Give me a wronged hero(ine), a righteous target, and a world that keeps twisting the knife. I’m in. What makes Scarlet  work as well as it does—when it’s working at full p

Today's movie offering comes via Amazon Prime, and it stars two of Hollywood's current hottest gets, Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa. I am looking at The Wrecking Crew . The Wrecking Crew is a new direct-to-streaming action-comedy that follows in the buddy cop vein of flicks where two heroic characters are paired together to take down shady ne'er-do-wells. It walks the well-tread path of movies such as Hot Fuzz (my favorite film of all time!), 48 Hour s, Lethal Weapon , and ot

It is sometimes very hard to choose a movie to watch. I have so many streaming services and so varied a taste and so many classic films I still haven't seen. I often think something along the lines of "Okay, it's time to watch a movie", but it will be forty minutes later before I choose anything. I open Prime, for example, and I scroll through their Most Recent Additions, and I scroll through their Most Popular, and I scroll through their various categories. I pick one or two

Within the Miami-Dade County police department is a specialized unit known as the TNT (Tactical Narcotics Team). Before we even get introduced to the members of the TNT, we see the unit lead, Captain Jackie Velez (Line Esco) get murdered in cold blood. It just so happens that there are rumors the TNT is housing dirty cops who, when busting a drug house, will wind up robbing the house and reporting far less cash than what was actually on-site. So it is only natural that Intern

As of this writing, it's January 12th, and I've already watched my second foreign language film of the year! I wonder how long it took me to watch a non-English movie in 2025? (Actually, the answer to that depends on whether Flow counts or not. It's a foreign made picture, sure, but it has no language to speak of) Anyway, today's movie comes to you due to the fact that I have seen a lot of Letterboxd friends log this movie recently--with pretty high scores for it!--and I deci