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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

I recently dog-sat for the uncle and aunt while they went to Tahiti for three-plus weeks. It turns out, I'm not much of a dog person. I sure like dogs! Other people's dogs. As for having one? Well the need to walk them and take them outside is a bit much for me because I am lazy. And they bark. And they are generally big and clumsy, and they hit you with their paw when they want attention. So while dog-sitting wasn't bad by any stretch, my wife and I will stick to our three c

Sony Pictures Classics There’s a certain magic in watching Richard Linklater return to the intimacy of character-driven storytelling. After experimenting with bigger canvases and some other detours, Blue Moon  feels like a homecoming — not to Austin or adolescence, but to the beating heart of American artistry. The film captures one fateful New York night in 1947 — the evening Oklahoma!  opened on Broadway — and in doing so, paints a bittersweet portrait of friendship, legacy

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine  is a bruiser of a film—sweaty, unflinching, and desperate to dig into the psyche of one of...

Kathryn Bigelow has always been fascinated by the anatomy of crisis — how people behave when the clock is ticking, the stakes are...

Steve (Cillian Murphy) is the headmaster of a reform school named Stanton Wood. If the children were Steve's biggest worry at the school,...

I've never had whatever genealogical advantage it is to be a male in America and have a car fetish. I've just not had any desire to look...

I often forget that AMC+ is its own whole streaming service. You see, we access Shudder through AMC+, so the vast majority of the time,...