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THE DEB MOVIE REVIEW Every girl dreams of her big debut, with the perfect dress, the perfect date, and the perfect night to remember. Unless you’re a teenage feminist who thinks the whole thing is a patriarchal nightmare. Then it’s time to burn down the ballroom. Rebel Wilson makes her feature directorial debut with The […]

ANIMALS MOVIE REVIEW Politics is a dirty business. But when your family-values campaign turns into a hostage situation, things are about to get downright savage. In this Ben Affleck written and directed Netflix crime thriller, wealthy Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball (Affleck) is days away from an election when his young son is kidnapped […]

V/H/S MIXTAPE MOVIE REVIEW Shudder has got you covered for this season’s spooky screenings with the ninth segment of the popular anthology series V/H/S with V/H/S/Mixtape. The narrative that connects the horror shorts this time around is the heavy metal shock rock and roll band GWAR. The band have their own bizarrely disgusting wraparound narrative, […]

CLAYFACE MOVIE REVIEW The comic books to movie train keeps chuggin’ along and the results have been of late, hugely varied. But if you fall on the ‘not into those’ camp, you might reconsider your stance for Clayface. Telling the origin story of the DC comics supervillain, writer Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, […]

WICKER MOVIE REVIEW Wedding bells are ringing and shackles are shined, and a bottle maker is forever bound to his beloved. Bring out the feast and let the band play, love has won the day. Amongst the party goers is a very skilled fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who carries the weight of her parents craft as […]

HALLOWARRIOR MOVIE REVIEW Ellen Ripley. Laurie Strode. Nancy Thompson. In the world of horror movies, there is a certain type of woman who is powerful enough, smart enough, and cunning enough to navigate a world of apocalyptic threats and savage killers. You don’t expect them to offer you candy. Milly Shapiro plays Pumpkin, an innocent […]

SACRIFICE MOVIE REVIEW A year after its premiere at TIFF, and a brief theatrical release in Italy, co-writer/director Romain Gavras’ film Sacrifice has found a home on Netflix. It tells the story of Mike Tyler (Chris Evans) a washed up movie star who had a nervous breakdown and (literally) torched his own career. A year […]

MASTERPLAN MOVIE REVIEW Masterplan stars Stanley Tucci as Roger Cavendish, a legendary thief of international renown with one last scheme before he retires. Roger plans to steal the Mona Lisa, but to pull off the crime of the century, he’ll need the help of his children, master hacker Chiara (Simona Tabasco) and explosives expert Jay […]

WHALEFALL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get it out of the way right now: Whalefall is a movie about a guy who gets swallowed by a whale and has to figure out how to escape before his air runs out. Sounds like a Tubi original, right? But no, this is a wide theatrical release with big name […]

FINAL FANTASTIC FIVESOME FORUM I know we have been pretty exhaustive this year (and most years) with our coverage of our favorite movie festival Fantastic Fest. Promise, this is the last thing we’re putting up for it this year. But it’s a big one. We get five of our attending critics, Chris, Wright, Martin, Mike, […]