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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice follows Mike (James Marsden), a gangster trying to leave that world behind, when he's approached on his final night by Nick (Vince Vaughn) for one final job. Mike is secretly dating Alice (Eiza González), who also happens to be Nick's wife. Tensions rise when Mike realizes the Nick he's working with isn't present day Nick, but a time traveling Nick from six months in the future, trying to save Mike on the night he was originally killed. The film als

There is a version of The Housemaid that probably works. You can see the outline of it. The bones are there. This story clearly wants to dig into some loaded material involving a woman’s place in modern life, the power imbalance inside marriage, the pressures of parenthood, and the lingering damage of past trauma. That is not small stuff. And to the film’s credit, it at least gestures toward all of it. The problem is that The Housemaid never really says anything with those

We are living in the weirdest timeline: one where there is a whole cinematic universe of action movies based around ballerinas . With two movies in the last few years simply having been called " Ballerina " (okay, I guess the John Wick spin-off had a subtitle) and being about a ballet dancer who goes on a revenge tour against those who have wronged her, you can be excused for thinking there is a lack of originality in the film world. Amazon Prime Video decided to get in on

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

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.

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

It's wild to me that K-Pop Demon Hunters is still in Netflix's Top Ten movies daily all of these months later (as of this writing). No one saw that flick coming, man. What a phenomenon. Anyway, I still check every few days to see what is worth watching on the streaming giant, and Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are assuredly still on the list staring back at me. Maybe they are waiting for me to watch it again; who knows? But today I found something else that caught me eye. Stone Cold F

When your favorite movie is from a particular sub-genre, it can mean one of two things. You either grade that sub-genre really kindly because you know you love it, or you grade it harshly because any competition has an uphill battle to measure up. With me, my favorite movie is somehow NOT from the horror genre, which shocks even me. No, my favorite film of all time is 2007's Hot Fuzz . That means the sub-genre we are judging today is the action-comedy. There is no shortage of

I know Netflix kind of hangs its hat on shows these days, but I have always been a movie guy, and I'm glad to see they still release so many new original films. I like television programs, sure, but they're an awful big commitment. Several seasons of several episodes, all lasting between thirty and sixty minutes each. Sometimes much more if you enjoy something like Stranger Things! That's a time commitment of, like, twenty-ish hours or so on a low average. The wife and I rece

I need to watch more of the classic Universal Horror features from the 1930's through 1950's. I've seen a handful of them, sure, but there are several more out there. For instance, I have skipped The Mummy and The Phantom Of The Opera because I had heard they didn't quite measure up to the rest. But maybe I'll dig them anyway when I try them out. My favorites at the point to what I've seen are The Creature From The Black Lagoon , The Invisible Man , and The Bride Of Franken

I just recently, as of this writing, passed one hundred movies released in 2025 watched. In that hundred films, I've obviously seen a lot of movies in theaters and that were big, major releases ( Predator: Badlands was officially #100, for instance), but you don't get to that figure without finding a lot of independent flicks on streaming services. When you watch a lot of indie films--especially in the horror genre--you end up seeing a lot of films of a somewhat dubious qual

Noah Baumbach’s latest turns what could’ve been another “movie about movies” into a layered, deeply human reflection on legacy, regret, and the masks we wear to survive in both Hollywood and life.

After thirty years of planning, Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into Frankenstein — an operatic Gothic marvel that’s as emotionally rich as it is visually breathtaking.

Let's get this straight out of the way because it really matters to this review and will come up again as I talk about Chain Reactions : I'm far from the world's biggest fan of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre . (Now Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 , that's a different story. I kind of love that movie) To be absolutely fair, I've only seen the 1974 horror classic once, and perhaps it was a "wrong time, wrong mindset" kind of thing. Maybe if I watched it again, I'd be far more into

After navigating the holy halls of the Vatican in Conclave , director Edward Berger trades in papal secrecy for the pulsating nightlife of Macau in Ballad of a Small Player , a visually electric and emotionally turbulent descent into obsession, luck, and moral decay. It’s the kind of movie that walks into the casino with swagger and style to spare, only to realize its chips are stacked on a busted hand. But for all its flaws, Berger’s latest is never dull, never dispassionate

It's time to review another movie coming to Screambox , as we take a look today at the Brazilian horror feature, A Mother's Embrace , which will be dropping on the service on 9/16/2025 ! A Mother's Embrace is directed by Cristian Ponce, and it starts off in the childhood of our protagonist, Ana. She and her mother start off at home--where her mom makes Ana guzzle down a full glass of strange tasting milk--but the two quickly head out to a local carnival. At the fair, the two

I love when you can watch a new movie and directly trace its influences back to other films that you have always loved. But more on that in the Ups and Downs segment of this review for reasons I will get into soon... Coming out on 9/23/2025 to Screambox , we have the new horror flick The Draft! --and yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. I was lucky enough to get an advance screener on this one to review and give my thoughts on. As always, huge appreciation goes o

Every so often, you find a movie that doesn't quite belong on the streaming service on which you find it. To that end, my wife and I just watched the 1999 film Jawbreaker ... on Shudder. The same Shudder that specializes in horror offerings. And it was showing the black comedy film Jawbreaker. It didn't make loads of sense, but that's where we found it. Every so often we find movies like that on Shudder, as if the men behind the service forgot what their mission statement was