It feels especially fitting that Vera Drew's THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is now streaming on a free platform. www.looper.com/2083606/the-...

Searchlight may not love you, but I do. Anyways, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE now playing at the @somervilletheatre.bsky.social in glorious 70MM.

I’m all for the sick as hell eclipse renaissance courtesy of THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE and FIRE AND ASH.

You can't convince me that Lance Henriksen's character in his episode of TALES FROM THE CRYPT ("Cutting Cards") isn't the descendant of Ace Hanlon from THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.

There’s a lot to love in 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, but I was particularly taken by Chi Lewis-Parry and how his surprisingly tender performance brings a fascinating new perspective to the Rage virus. www.looper.com/2078019/28-y...

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (70MM) - Seeing this on large format film gave me so much clarity. Mona Fastvold invites us to get lost in the intoxicating rhapsody of inner understanding and, in turn, entrusts our salvation to a woman possessed in the incomparable Amanda Seyfried.

Just because you’re an unambitious moviegoer doesn’t mean everyone else is, Ted.

Hell yeah! Go see PRIMATE, folks.

It’s only a matter of time until the new Hays Code ensures every studio movie with any fiber of bad behavior needs to end with the director saying “I’m deeply sorry I made these characters do those terrible things. I wholeheartedly condemn their actions”

Pluto TV keeping the cable movie experience live with getting wrapped up in the last 40 minutes of CRANK 2.

If you’re into bloody creature features with a practical monster being a silly little guy, then you really shouldn’t miss PRIMATE this weekend. I love you, Ben! www.slashfilm.com/2071427/movi...

Difficult to see anyone blowing a show wide open in its series finale in a more effective manner than TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. I’ll never forget the clenching in my stomach when Kyle MacLachlan’s face imprinted itself on the screen and wouldn’t go away. Generational television.

Glad my Johannes Roberts stocks have paid off cause PRIMATE is a gory fucking blast of a creature feature. It’s got a mean sense of humor and Ben is already in the running for one of 2026’s most memorable horror villains.

It’s funny how I fell behind on my mission to see every Eastwood-directed movie around the second half of this year, but he still made the top spots.

And while we’re on the Soderbergh train, BLACK BAG is still one of the sexiest movies of 2025. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/black-ba...

It’s a testament to Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE that I haven’t stopped thinking about it since January. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/the-haun...

Big fan of starting off the new year with movies about a monkee doing some crazy stuff.

ESCAPE IN THE FOG - Nina Foch is awoken by a nightmare in which she witnesses a murder of a fed who happens to be staying at the same hotel she is. It’s a good hook that descends into a lumbering WWII espionage thriller that never feels all that dangerous. That fog though.

I’m pretty sure THE MOVIE ORGY is one of the best Blu-rays I own, but god, I would love to see this in a theater though. Never a dull moment in Joe Dante’s extremely funny compilation of B-movies, commercials, newsreels and deranged children’s shows. Gremlin cinema all the way!

ADDRESS UNKNOWN - A hauntingly prescient noir about a German-American art dealer who succumbs to the fraudulent allure of the Nazi regime in favor of his loved ones. Sure glad we’ll never again have to worry about small men seizing entertainment venues for propagandistic purposes

MARTY SUPREME (70MM) - The spree of youthful ambition worn down to the nub. A self-destructive Timothée is like watching a balloon rubbing up against sharp objects while trying to patch a leak. This is an excellent example of how a film’s final note recontextualizes everything.

I just think it’s really funny that the folks in Keene, NH woke up on Christmas Eve to Clint Howard holding a worm.

If you see Michael Shannon on this Christmas Eve, trust him with your life. www.slashfilm.com/2053958/the-...

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT is a very, very weird horror franchise where every movie goes in a bizarre new tonal direction. Killer Santa! Garbage Day! Mickey Rooney! Bugs! Ranked all 7 films for ELF Magazine. www.keenesentinel.com/elf/slashing...

The glaring issue at the heart of the new ANACONDA besides it being terribly unfunny is that it’s way too corporatized to actually land its supposed celebration of DIY filmmaking. The absence of sincerity in favor of lazy “wouldn’t this be stupid” meta jabs made this excruciating

100 BEST HORROR MOVIES & THRILLERS OF 2025 My massive year-end list is here. It’s a roundup encompassing all the best in found footage, slashers, revenge, queer horror, and more. Picks include Good Boy, Horror in the High Desert 4, and MANY MORE!!! 🔗 bsidesbadlands.com/100-best-hor...

The writing industry can be a lot of waiting for unpaid invoices + getting a ton of rejection. So, if you like my work, feel free to buy me a coffee sometime! 🩷 ko-fi.com/beedelores

The AVATAR movies are great, if only because you can feel just how much Cameron cares about Pandora. Every environment is both an act of wonder and a requiem for our dying world. I could spend an entire movie swimming with the Tulkun or the climbing the Hallelujah mountains.

The Boston Omni Dome IMAX has this ability to associate viewers with faces in such an overwhelmingly intimate way that Varang’s tent in FIRE AND ASH took on a whole new dimension.

tfw the Rock hypes you up with how you’re going to experience the largest, sharpest, brightest, clearest and most vivid digital imagery ever with not just 6, but 12 channels of high-definition audio.

There’s a shot of an eclipse in FIRE AND ASH that had me levitating out of my seat. Way too tired to form coherent thoughts at the moment other than Big Jim is a certified freak who appreciates the power of drugs and femdoms. Varang is everything.

“Just looking into your soul, man.” Michael Shannon is very, very funny as pot-brained Clarence in THE NIGHT BEFORE. www.slashfilm.com/2053958/the-...

The issue with trying to turn Hallmark movies to fit within the horror genre is that they’re already pretty weird and deranged without the bloody twists.

Surprisingly a lot to say about SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5, but I’m kind in awe of the remote control car with blades and spikes and buzzsaws.

It may be some extremely silly holiday kitsch, but SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS is far from one of the worst movies ever made. www.slashfilm.com/2050706/sant...

Last night’s SOUTH PARK brought the Trump-Satan butt baby affair to a close (that is a sentence I just wrote) with some Yuletide fear. www.slashfilm.com/2049670/sout...

RESURRECTION - Bi Gan presents the soul of cinema as the dreams we were born to visualize. I was blown away by the aesthetic splendor of the form’s history through six states of imagination. There are so many soul-stirring images I haven’t been able to shake.

You better get those Warner Archive discs while you still can. www.slashfilm.com/2044433/netf...

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE - Another rip-roaring exercise in LOONEY TUNES carnage against a band of Soviets. It’s basically one long chase movie that finds new ways to top its own absurdity. Jorma Tommila has such an incredible pissed-off face. Surprisingly sweet ending!

JUPITER ASCENDING (35MM) - I love this now? The Wachowski Sisters take such a sincere approach to their big pulpy space opera that evokes everything from Frank Herbert to FLASH GORDON. It’s silly and endearingly so. There’s also a literal elephant man. @alexxkittle.bsky.social ftw!

THE FUGITIVE (35MM) - Its no wonder this became a cable mainstay. The kind of insanely well-directed thriller where a phone call or database search is as exciting, if not more so, than something like the waterfall confrontation. Ford latches onto every moment of air and so do we.

THE UNTOUCHABLES (35MM) - First time! DePalma and Mamet channeling their bloodlust in ways that complement the other (external pulp vs. internal power fantasy). The result is a helluva fun piece of violent blockbuster fluff set to the legendary Ennio Morricone.

Caught up with Danishka Esterhazy’s MATCH, a fun and disgusting little exploitation horror movie about the dangers of fulfilling the social contract when things seem weird. Now streaming on Tubi! www.slashfilm.com/2038473/matc...

It all comes back around.

HEARTBREAK RIDGE - I thought I would come around this time, but sadly this kind of military machismo still just doesn’t work for me. Eastwood’s colorful insult grab bag only does so much to elevate a movie that I think feels sluggish and slight on account of the Malpaso style.

What is grief, if not HAMNET persevering? www.keenesentinel.com/elf/chlo-zha...

It really is a shame the green and pink movies look like that. www.slashfilm.com/2031892/wick...

KING OF THE MONSTERS - The kind of appalling bastardization of a genre titan that amounts to little more than underwritten fan fiction. The nerve to mostly omit America’s complicity in Godzilla’s creation to give grace to Raymond Burr would be laughable if it weren’t so tedious.

It really is a shame the green and pink movies look like that. www.slashfilm.com/2031892/wick...