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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'

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

As it stands, I am sitting at 100 new release movies watched across 2026. Big ol' number one-hundred was Resident Evil, and that was a huge hit for me. Last year, I managed 117 new releases watched for 2025, and here I am not even at the end of September as of this writing, and I'm at triple digits already! Even though I'm getting fewer screener movies than I used to, I'm well on my way to beat out last year's personal best. I'm honestly doing a bang up job on movie watching

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

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

I have been on vacation for almost the entirety of time from August 13th through September 2nd. And because of that and the various trips I made (South Carolina and Toronto), I watched precious little in the realm of movies. I just haven't had the time or ability. I was either having fun with friends or at Fan Expo Canada as Press and working my time away there. On a year where I have been averaging over one movie watched per day, going over half a month without seeing many r

"I think I'm getting a divorce. What tipped me off was that I'm living in an apartment on my own." After coming off the heels of remaking A Star is Born for a modern audience and trying his hand at making a biopic on Leonard Bernstein's life with Maestro, Bradley Cooper brought us his third film with Is This Thing On? last year. It premiered as the closing film of the 63rd New York Film Festival, where it got rave reviews. Being a fan of Cooper's first two films and having an

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

No jokey or rambly preamble from me today; just a quick reminder to make sure to get your regularly scheduled health screenings. This might be particularly rich coming from me, as I avoid going to the doctor like it is the plague, but a few years ago I had a strange chest pain issue come up, and I was quick to schedule a stress test to make sure everything was on the up-and-up within me (it was!). But also: I'm 45 now, and I have been putting off getting a physical because I

I am firmly in the time of year where it's getting easier and easier to find movies on streaming that came out in the current calendar year and will add to my new release count when I watch them. It's the best. For the first few months, January though May or so, it's difficult to find many new releases on streaming, but after that, it becomes something of a bonanza! And I love it. I always get through April, look at the number of new release films I have watched on the year,

I need to tell you about the rain. In The Last House, a Netflix thriller that cost considerably more money than it had any right to, the rain is sentient. The rain seals your doors shut. The rain makes your windows unbreakable. The rain, and I cannot stress this enough, knows how to lock your garage door. This is a film in which hostile precipitation has developed a working understanding of residential architecture and has chosen to use that knowledge against us. I watched al

Shark movies! I want to make this abundantly clear: I'm not a shark movie guy. I mean, I like Jaws as much as the next person, but I don't understand the cinematic world's fascination with these beasts of the sea. I don't get why "Shark Week" is a thing that people celebrate and program TV watching around. I just... it's all beyond me. There are so many lethal animals on there planet, and I am not sure why we as a society have latched onto sharks and decided they should be th

Much has been made of the lack of true modern A-list stars in Hollywood. Tom Cruise seems to be the last real one (though I'm sure some of his contemporaries like Brad Pitt and Matt Damon might disagree with that assessment), but he is not a young man (and neither are the other two I mentioned). Can Hollywood survive an era where there are no real stars to drive crowds to the cineplex? It's an interesting determination. What besides supernova actors gets people to the movies?

Weight loss culture is a big thing these days. I feel like that's a permanent truism, really. When has weight loss NOT been one of the pre-eminent things on Americans' minds? It's a constant top New Year's Resolution every single winter, and celebrity culture has made thin "in" for ages now. But in the back half of the 2020's, it only seems to be rising in prominence. It's easier to achieve than ever, what with appetite suppressant injectables flooding the market and being in

We are back for the final instalment of the Heartstopper series. Based on the graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, Heartstopper has been loved around the world for celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. With three seasons, Netflix decided to close out one of its beloved series with a two-hour film rather than giving it a fourth and final season. In Heartstopper Forever, we are reunited with Charlie (Joe Locke), Nick (Kit Connor), and all of their friends for one last adventure. A

Another week, another new horror release has hit my favorite streaming service, Shudder. To be absolutely honest, Shudder has not been knocking it out of the park so far in 2026. So far of note, we have had Honey Bunch and Forbidden Fruits as outings that I quite enjoyed, and that was just about it. Well, I guess sMothered wasn't bad, either. But it's July as I write this, and they release, as I said, a new movie every week. Most of which I have watched! And most of which hav

As of this writing, it's July 1st. Coming into today, I had seen 56 movies released in 2026. Not quite the pace I was on last year, but not a bad one by any stretch. With most of the days of the year in the backend, I'm likely easily going to crush 100 new releases in the calendar year. And that's got me excited. So how has 2026 been so far on the cinematic front? Pretty good! After having just one 4.5 out of 5 movie and no 5 out of 5 offerings in 2025, I've already got one p

The highly acclaimed FX series The Bear returned to fans' screens on Thursday night, heightening anticipation for its final season. In the series' tradition, all eight episodes were dropped for binge-watching. Straying from the series organic flow of travelling to new food scenes across Chicago and the globe, season 5 boldly chooses to take on its own rendition of a chamber piece. Rather than travelling outside of the restaurant, the majority of the season takes place either