Unrated

Runtime: 2hr 4min

Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira

Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024

Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025

RT: 93% critics / 61% audience 

Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent

Synopsis

Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 31min

Written & Directed by Chris Stuckmann

Stars: Sarah Durn, Mason Heidger and Brendan Sexton III

Premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival July 20, 2024

Released in US October 24, 2025

RT: 59% critics / 60% audience 

Currently in theaters

Synopsis

Riley Brennan and her friends are paranormal investigators who disappear while exploring the abandoned town of Shelby Oaks, Ohio. The bodies of the other investigators are later found, along with one of the video tapes containing their footage. Riley and the other tape remain missing. 12 years later, a film crew is making a documentary about the murders and disappearance focusing on Riley's sister, Mia, and her efforts to locate Riley, when a strange man appears at her door with the missing tape. This plunges Mia further into her search for Riley.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s newest, Cloud, currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and available to rent elsewhere.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated PG-13

Runtime: 1hr 12min

Written & Directed by Ben Leonberg

Stars: Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden and Indy

Premiered at SxSW Film Festival March 8, 2025

Released in US October 3, 2025

RT: 90% critics / 83% audience 

Currently in theaters

Synopsis

Adorable dog Indy and his dad, Todd, move into Todd’s grandpa’s home after Todd becomes ill with a mysterious illness that seemingly also killed his grandpa. Indy immediately senses things are not right in the home, as strange noises and creeping shadows abound.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Shelby Oaks, opening in theaters on October 24.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 42min

Written & Directed by Tilman Singer

Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens and Marton Csokas

Premiered at Berlin International Film Festival February 16, 2024

Released in US August 9, 2024

RT: 78% critics / 58% audience 

Currently in theaters

Synopsis

17yr old Gretchen is sent to live with her father and his new family in Germany after the death of her mother. Her father and step mother work for the mysterious Herr Konig, who has sent for them to stay near the resort they designed for him, and who takes a strange interest in Gretchen and her mute half-sister, Alma. When Gretchen gets a job working at the hotel, she notices that some of the female guests are exhibiting strange behaviors.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Good Boy, opening in theaters on October 3.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 48min

Directed by Francis Lawrence

Written by JT Mollner, based on the novel by Stephen King

Stars: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill

Released in US September 12, 2025

RT: 90% critics / 85% audience 

Currently in theaters

Synopsis

In the United States of an undetermined year, 50 boys are chosen from a lottery - one from each state - to walk as long as they possibly can. They may not drop below 3mph. The last boy standing wins.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Cuckoo, currently streaming on Hulu and Kanopy

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 50min

Directed by Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein

Written by Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor

Stars: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones and Tony Todd

Released in US May 16, 2025

RT: 92% critics / 87% audience

Currently streaming on HBO

Synopsis

Tragedy is averted in the 1960s when a woman has a premonition of a tower collapse and alerts revellers in time to get everyone out safely. Unfortunately, Death can hold a grudge for a loooong time, because in the present day, that woman’s granddaughter is plagued by dreams of the same tower collapse and returns home from college to get to the bottom of why. Soon she learns that Death has been taking all the survivors of the near-tragedy one by one, as well as all the children they shouldn’t have been able to have, and she will soon be next.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Long Walk, coming to theaters September 12

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 2hr 8min

Written & Directed by Zach Cregger

Stars: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Benedict Wong

Released in US August 8, 2025

RT: 94% critics / 86% audience

Currently in theaters

Synopsis

Early one morning every child but one from teacher Justine’s elementary school class runs outside and disappears. Angry parents demand answers from the teacher, but the remaining child, Alex, is who they should be asking.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Final Destination: Bloodlines, currently streaming on HBO

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 44min

Directed by James Ashcroft

Written by Eli Kent and James Ashcroft, based on a short story by Owen Marshall

Stars: Geoffrey Rush, John Lithgow and George Henare

Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 19, 2024

Released in US March 7, 2025

RT: 71% critics / 54% audience

Currently Streaming on Shudder and AMC+

Synopsis

An elderly judge suffers a stroke on the bench and finds himself in a nursing home that is ruled by an unhinged resident and his creepy puppet. 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Weapons, opening in theaters on August 8th

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 29min

Directed by Thordur Palsson

Written by Jamie Hannigan

Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole and Siobhan Finneran

Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 6, 2024

Released in US January 3, 2025

RT: 90% critics / 47% audience

Currently Streaming on Hulu

Synopsis

A widow is tasked with running an isolated fishing outpost in Iceland at the end of the 19th century. When a ship wrecks on some rocks off the coast, she makes the decision not to rescue the passengers, dooming her crew to madness and danger.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Rule of Jenny Pen, currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 55min

Directed by Danny Boyle

Written by Alex Garland

Stars: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes

Released in US theaters June 20, 2025

RT: 88% critics / 63% audience

Synopsis

12yr old Spike lives with his domineering father and mysteriously ill mother on a small island less than a mile away from mainland northern England. While safe there from the infected, the citizens uphold a tradition that sees their young people escorted to the mainland to kill infected as a rite of passage. Disillusioned after his outing and determined to locate the rumored doctor there, Spike sneaks out of the compound with his mother in tow in an attempt to cure her illness.

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Damned, currently streaming on Hulu

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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