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Daniel Kraus, author of the book Whalefall published in 2023, co-wrote the screenplay for the new film adaptation with director Brian Duffield. The film follows Jay (Austin Abrams), a college student who takes a dive, determined to find the remains of his father, Mitt (Josh Brolin), a year after Mitt's death. The dive goes haywire when he gets trapped inside a whale and must figure out how to escape. The visuals are the film's greatest strength, thanks to striking visual effe

I have, in recent months, written Franchise Reviews for both the Alien and Scream series. They are franchises that have few truly great entries and plenty of pretty bad ones. It was quite depressing to power through those franchises and see all of the subpar outings they have had. At least Alien is currently sitting on a mostly positive note with Alien: Romulus being its most recent flick. Scream's last offering was the absolutely abhorrent Scream 7. Does anyone alive have an

Sean grew up in Ohio loving Matchbox cars with his friends Aimee, Ted, Charmaine, and Crosby. They call themselves the Matchbox Gang. Aimee's uncle, Smalley (Bill Camp), runs a garage in town, and the kids love talking about Matchbox cars with him. Sean acquires Aimee's dream Matchbox car, a blue 1969 Camaro. But he's got a crush on her and chickens out when he has a chance to gift it to her. Shortly after, Sean finds out his dad landed a job in Chicago. His dad tells him it'

In 2006, journalist Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) hosts To Catch a Predator, a Dateline NBC series where he joins forces with anti-pedophile activists to conduct sting operations. He and his producer, Andie Bender (Merritt Wever), lure suspected child predators into houses using actors as decoy children. Aspiring actor Dan Plum (Skyler Gisondo) is recruited to join the team, and after a skeptical start, he truly becomes "Decoy Dan," Hansen's go-to and most reliable asset. T

"When all else fails, you hit 'em with the truth. Ya know the hard truth. Just bang, bang, bang! Whoo! Whoo!" Digger was touted as the first film in a while in which we witnessed Tom Cruise giving this dramatic performance. When the news came out that he'd be working with 4-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Alejandro González Iñárritu, more eyes were on this satirical black comedy. Going into this I was given fair warning that this would divide people, and boy has it! I'v

Tubi is an absolutely phenomenal online streaming service for finding movies that you can't get anywhere else. They have a vast selection of films that rotate onto and off of the provider, and they really put care into curating their cinematic selection. I love to scroll through Tubi for movies and just... see what's out there that I have never watched before. I could spend hours watching popular films there. Tubi also has original movies! Are they typically any good? They ar

The newest movie from DreamWorks Animation, Forgotten Island, explores the power of friendship and memories. When Jo and Raissa, best friends through their school years, are about to split apart and live in different countries, they finally find the portal to the island of Nakali, a mythical forgotten island they've been trying to find their entire childhood. After losing their memories of their first night there, their friendship is tested as they figure out how to get home.

La Bola Negra is an epic, sprawling web of interconnecting stories taking place in 1932, 1937, and 2017 across Spain. In 1932, we look at Carlos (Milo Quifes), a young man coming to terms with his sexuality, while his father is grasping at straws trying to gain him access to an elite gentlemen's club in Granada. He wants to appease his father, and he appears before the board of conservative elders who have heard rumblings about him throughout town. 1937 centers around Sebasti

The Get Out is a newly released streaming offering that can be found on Paramount+. I actually had not heard much about this movie before the wife and I were strolling through Roku City tonight. I needed something good to watch after clocking an outright abysmal movie earlier in the day, and nothing was really ringing my bell after perusing Peacock and Hulu. But then I hit Paramount+ and saw Russell Crowe starring in a new flick. I have a conflicted history with Mr. Crowe as

A primary school teacher kidnaps her most disruptive student, chains him to her basement wall with a harness she found by googling "how to live with an 800lb gorilla," and the film then has the audacity to make you sit with the fact that you kind of understand why she did it. This is Bad Apples. It is not for everyone. It is absolutely for me. Saoirse Ronan plays Maria, known only as Ms. to the children at an aggressively posh British school that talks endlessly about its stu

Ko Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small town located near the DMZ in South Korea. He gets a call from his cousin, Ko Sung-ki (Zo In-sung), about a dead cow in the road with unnatural wounds. Rumors begin circulating that a tiger is the culprit, but a trip back into town reveals more unnatural carnage among the cows—and even a farmer. When Bum-seok returns to town, he finds a massacre: buildings torn apart, bodies strewn across the streets, and

"I'm in, like, a messed-up situation right now..." Over this past weekend, I finally got caught up on Zach Cregger's latest horror adaptation of the video game IP known as Resident Evil. Truth be told, I've never played any of the video games before nor have I watched any of the films. I don't have any intentions on doing the latter, especially when I don't want to support a filmmaker that allowed a stunt gone wrong where someone lost an arm. As for this film, I came in with

AppleTV Plus is, from what I understand, THE destination for high quality TV programs in the 2020's. I say that I only understand that to be the case because I don't watch a lot of serialized television. I'm much more of a movie guy. TV series, to me, are a little arduous in how in-depth they are. I have two hours to watch a movie, yes. I don't have ten hours to give to a ten episode series of hour-long episodes. And then they take YEARS between seasons nowadays. I'm lucky if

Oh, the lowly Netflix Original Movie. I talk repeatedly about Shudder movies and about how I never ever know what I'm going to get when I open up that service. It could be an extremely delightful hidden gem, or it could be repetitive crap I've seen dozens of times before. But with Netflix... man, doesn't it FEEL like we know what we are going to get? For every K-Pop Demon Hunters, we get about twenty The Last Days Of American Crime. Netflix movies are notoriously bad, but the

Buddy (Keegan-Michael Key) is an anthropomorphic talking unicorn with magical powers and the host of a 1990s-style children's television program. The show centers around him teaching lessons and playing with four children, in the same vein as something like Barney. But when two of the children, Freddy (Delaney Quinn) and Wade (Caleb Williams), become increasingly suspicious of Buddy and his short temper, they begin planning their escape from this seemingly inescapable world.

Ethan Hawke is carrying a fortune in stolen gold across a hundred miles of Oregon wilderness in 1930s America and he is also, less metaphorically, carrying this entire film on his back. Both jobs are difficult. He is better at one of them than the other but he gives everything to both. The premise of The Weight is the kind that sounds irresistible in a pitch room. A labour camp inmate gets offered early release in exchange for transporting government gold through the wilderne

In a luxurious villa in Catalonia, four wealthy American siblings live with their blind father, largely isolated from the outside world. Their already complicated family dynamic begins to unravel when Jack (Jamie Bell), the eldest son, announces that he plans to move out and live with his girlfriend, Martha (Elle Fanning). As Martha becomes more involved with the family, tensions between the siblings begin to rise, while Ed (Callum Turner) becomes increasingly fixated on the

In 1975, 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) arrives in Provincetown with dreams of becoming a writer but little idea of where his life is actually headed. After stumbling into the chaotic world of a local restaurant kitchen, Tony finds himself surrounded by a group of eccentric coworkers who introduce him to an entirely different way of living. As the summer unfolds, he forms new friendships, falls in love, and develops an unexpected passion for food that will ultim

Kris (Hannah Einbinder) is a young filmmaker who is hired to reboot the cult 1980s slasher Camp Miasma. In preparation for the film, she tracks down Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), the actress who played the original movie’s final girl and now lives on the same grounds where it was filmed. As Kris spends more time with Billy and becomes more obsessed with the history of Camp Miasma, the line between the movie and reality starts to disappear. What begins as a straightforward

During the Sengoku period of Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) finds himself trapped inside his own castle as his enemies close in around him. With his forces surrounded and his chances of survival becoming increasingly slim, Murashige turns to an unlikely source for help: a prisoner named Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant strategist who has been captured and imprisoned within the castle. Despite being his captive, Kanbei possesses an understanding of war that co