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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

James Vanderbilt’s   Nuremberg  delivers a haunting courtroom drama that probes the minds behind humanity’s darkest chapter. Anchored by a towering Russell Crowe performance and a chilling moral tug-of-war, the film is long, heavy, and often brilliant — even when it drags its feet. PLOT & SETUP Directed by James Vanderbilt , Nuremberg  adapts Jack El-Hai’s 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist , chronicling psychiatrist Douglas Kelley’s  (Rami Malek) psychological evaluatio

Few sports stories are as naturally cinematic as that of Christy Martin — the first woman to ever box on pay-per-view and, unintentionally, a trailblazer for women’s boxing. Christy  aims to honor that legacy, showing how a small-town fighter from West Virginia became a symbol of perseverance and empowerment. Unfortunately, the film often buries that power beneath convention and formula, opting for the expected over the profound. The film’s first act chronicles Martin’s unlik

A Bruce Springsteen biopic that confuses introspection with inertia. Deliver Me From Nowhere looks and feels authentic but struggles to find the heartbeat of its own story.

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

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