A ★★★★½ review of Wasteman (2025) I've been waiting on this one. The trailer's compelling, scary, and looks like a true test for David Jonsson (of INDUSTRY breakout fame) and Tom Blyth, whose most recent performance as an undercooked romantic lead saddled with an American accent in PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION left pretty much everything to be desired. What I got from WASTEMAN were 90 taut, terrifying, disorienting minutes of often first-person camera footage of life inside a British prison. When not marveling at the distinct differences between doing hard time in the UK vs. the USA (in-cell TVs, crockpots, microwaves, GAMING SYSTEMS, FFS!), I

WASTEMAN
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A ★★★★½ review of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Quite the journey this movie takes you on, which could be considered this generation's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (look it up, kids!), an inflection point in society where the popular discourse SHOULD cent...

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST
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A ★★★½ review of The Drama (2026) Powered by a disjointed, quirky, fun little style, THE DRAMA is funny, entertaining, and a bit of high stakes emotional dramedy when a secret past threatens to unravel a picture-perfect Millennial wed...

THE DRAMA
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A ★★★★★ review of Project Hail Mary (2026) After nearly a year of promotion for a non-Marvel movie that's based on a hard sci-fi book by THE MARTIAN's author Andy Weir, I had my concerns. Marketing so far in advance is either a sign that this ...

PROJECT HAIL MARY
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A ★★★ review of Tow (2025) While a bit run-of-the-mill hard luck mom story, the irrepressible Rose Byrne - this time sporting a wheeled backpack, pink hair bandanna, and a defensive lisp - can pretty much do no wrong at this po...

TOW
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A ★★★★ review of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) A thoroughly satisfying end - or beginning of a new era - of the PEAKY BLINDERS criminal underworld.

PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN
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A ★★★★ review of Reminders of Him (2026) I tried to resist it, but this is another engaging, emotionally complex Colleen Hoover book adaptation into a simmering romantic drama. Feels a bit like the Nicholas Sparks of our time with a bit less...

REMINDERS OF HIM
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A ★★★★½ review of Wick Is Pain (2025) Not just a must-see for any JOHN WICK fan, but a must-ENJOY for any JOHN WICK fan. Astonishing, inspiring, painful, and, ultimately incredible story behind the making of one of the most innovative act...

WICK IS PAIN
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A ★½ review of Slanted (2025) Good trailer, intriguing and poignant premise, terrible execution. If there's a good film in there, I couldn't find it.

SLANTED
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A ★★★★ review of Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026) Scary. Disgusting. Obnoxious. Timely and, sadly, timeless. Can't possibly offer any solutions, but is a perfect "know thy enemy" type of film giving the rest of us a glimpse into incel culture and tha...

LOUIS THEROUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE
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A ★★★★ review of Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026) Scary. Disgusting. Obnoxious. Timely and, sadly, timeless. Can't possibly offer any solutions, but is a perfect "know thy enemy" type of film giving the rest of us a glimpse into incel culture and tha...

LOUIS THEROUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE
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A ★★★★ review of War Machine (2026) WAR MACHINE is the quintessential Netflix action movie: fast, loud, relentless, and anchored by a charismatic, well-built loner who cannot be stopped (oh hai, REBEL RIDGE!). I had other shit to do on ...

WAR MACHINES
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A ★★★★★ review of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) I was born in 1975. Elvis died before I have recollective memory of anything. My musical influences from my single Black mother in the '80s were of the Teddy Pendergrass, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandr...

EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT
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A ★★★★ review of Dreams (2025) This movie has SO much going for it, not the least of which is my fave gorgeous redhead Jessica "I apologize - I was not familiar with your game" Chastain, as exec producer and actor in her sexiest, m...

DREAMS
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A ★★★½ review of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) Like a full season of BLACK MIRROR jammed into a Sam Rockwell-led fever dream, GLHFDD is the eccentric, techphobic, anti-AI screed you didn't know you need.

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE
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A ★★★★½ review of Heat (1995) In honor of CRIME 101, I rewatched it (while indoctrinating my mother) to see just how much was cribbed off the Michael Mann classic. Enough, but not too much. Regardless, this movie still. SLAAAAAAAP...

HEAT
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A ★★★ review of Inheritance (2024) This Phoebe Dynevor (BRIDGERTON) vehicle as an aimless Gen Z mess of a woman who's unexpectedly sucked into the mysterious world of her estranged father (Rhys Ifans), is a low-key, simmering, globe-tr...

INHERITANCE
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A ★★★½ review of Wuthering Heights (2026) Brooding, cheeky, horny (but, alas, not quite SEXY), VISCOUS, and entertainingly scattershot, auteurish writer/director Emerald Fennell's take on Bronte's 19th century classic never bores, often chall...

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
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A ★★★★ review of Shelter (2026) Despite the umpteenth iteration of Jason Statham Old Man Action Flick and ye olde go-to of Lone Wolf and Cub, SHELTER has a menacingly almost meditative first third, a sweet-natured middle third, and ...

SHELTER
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A ★★★★½ review of Crime 101 (2026) Fairly or unfairly, pretty much any new LA-based heist thriller is going to be compared to HEAT. Despite having several unique, modern-day touches that deviate from the cop vs. robber HEAT formula, CR...

CRIME 101
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A ★★★★ review of Trap House (2025) You kind of want to fight against the central conceit of TRAP HOUSE - kids of DEA agents rob Mexican cartel traphouses for cash to support a friend - because it's so audacious, however plausibly they ...

TRAP HOUSE
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A ★★★★½ review of Send Help (2026) If I had a stronger stomach, this would easily be a 5 star movie. While this zero-hero, nature-vs.-nurture-out IN nature disaster/stranded island flick is an equally matched two-hander between the tal...

SEND HELP
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A ★★★★ review of People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Romcoms are like James Bond films: we all know how they're going to end, but they're very difficult to pull off, and the joy is in the journey. So, when this uniquely structured romance hits all the r...

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
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A ★★★★★ review of The Rip (2026) As a man of a certain age, who once reveled in the '00s action junkie charms of writer-director Joe Carnahan (NARC, SMOKIN' ACES), I was pre-sold on this movie. Movies like THE RIP are EXTREMELY my sh...

THE RIP
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A ★★★★½ review of No Other Choice (2025) It's randomness is its strength and if finds its strength through random dark hilarity. This movie is sui generis, a truly one-of-one unique darkly comedic, anti-capitalist thriller with some of the m...

NO OTHER CHOICE
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A ★★½ review of Is This Thing On? (2025) This is not a good film. But, in spite of itself, it's a fairly thought-provoking one on the nature of marriage, relationships, personal growth - and the lack thereof. Stand-up comedy - and Arnett's c...

IS THIS THING ON?

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A ★★★½ review of Greenland 2: Migration (2026) As a dystopian society enthusiast, the first GREENLAND was right up my alley. With GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION, a post-comet world where civilization has fallen apart is my entire NEIGHBORHOOD. Best seen w...

GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION
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A ★★★ review of The Dutchman (2025) The incendiary '60s Black play of the same name serves as the framing device for this modern-day interpretation of Amiri Baraka's (f.k.a. LeRoi Jones) classic. It's messy, trippy, threatening, and sca...

THE DUTCHMAN
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A ★★★★½ review of Marty Supreme (2025) The Safdie Brothers have broken up. Benny directed THE SMASHING MACHINE, a somnambulant, awards-bait misfire starring The Rock. Josh directed MARTY SUPREME, a vibrant, mile-a-minute visionquest of an ...

MARTY SUPREME
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A ★★★★½ review of The Housemaid (2025) Apparently a skilled champion of female-forward films, Paul Feig's helped adapt the titular novel THE HOUSEMAID into yet another suspenseful, darkly comedic, frenemy thriller that absolutely understoo...

THE HOUSEMAID
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