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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

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

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 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

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

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

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 think that our neighborhood...our house...our whole street has moved." It's been a while since we got a movie from David Robert Mitchell, director of It Follows. The last time he had a movie in theaters was back in 2019 when Under the Silver Lake graced our silver screens. The film garnered mixed responses and was a box-office flop but has since gained a cult following. I, myself, recalled it was a bit too long but found the journey to be an interesting experience to say t

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?

Let me be honest with you about Motor City. It is exactly the kind of film I wanted to love. A dialogue free crime thriller set in 1977 Detroit, all needle drops and muscle cars and Alan Ritchson being enormous in slow motion. On paper this is everything. In practice it is a film that keeps reminding you of better films while failing to become one itself. The premise is pure pulp. Ritchson plays John Miller, an ex-con with a beautiful girlfriend and a very bad enemy in the fo

"Cheers! To your perfect family." We've finally made it to the most anticipated film of 2026 for sickos. And the film I'm referring to is Evil Dead Burn! I don't know about anyone else, but I've been pretty hyped to see this entry ever since they showed off a teaser trailer in front of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Despite not being a big horror aficionado like my colleagues, I've slowly become a fan of these grotesque films. In fact, I made an attempt to revisit some of the earlie

"Hasta la vista, baby." Terminator 2: Judgment Day was one of the more revolutionary films made at the time, seeing as CGI wasn't used as often as it is nowadays. In fact, I'm pretty sure this and Jurassic Park were one of the early films that showcased a lot of groundbreaking visual effects work. As for the film itself? Well, I personally loved it back when I first saw it and still love it to this day. Not only is it a great continuation of what James Cameron did on the firs

I like to imagine I'm really confusing the hell out of the little gremlin personally in charge of my Tubi algorithm. In recent months, Tubi has become one of my favorite streaming services. Its movie selection is almost unparalleled, and it has a wide array of both big name flicks and independent outings exclusive to the streamer. While most other services are clogging up with series and shows--I don't have the time commitment those require!--Tubi remains mostly dedicated to

Kraken opens on old news footage. Eyewitness interviews. People describing something massive in the water near a Norwegian fjord. The helicopters searched. They found nothing. Cut to present day. Two kids on a jet ski fall into the water and don't come back up. Johanne (Sara Khorami) is a marine researcher who gets called in to inspect a fish farm in Vangsnes. Her first instinct is to pass. She has her reasons. Then she sees video of fish voluntarily jumping out of the water

Disclosure Day finds Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) as a cybersecurity expert who steals a piece of extraterrestrial technology from the Wardex corporation, containing proof of multiple instances of alien contact. Intent on exposing the truth to the public, Daniel becomes the target of Wardex CEO Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), who sends federal authorities to hunt him down, forcing Daniel and his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) to go into hiding. Meanwhile, in Kansas City, meteorol