A ★★★ review of Hokum (2026) As a matter of personal taste, my least favorite types of horror films tend to be ghost stories or haunted location films with jump scares. There are many good or even great horror films within that s...

#Hokum - Bump-in-the-night ghost stories with jump scares are generally my least fav kind of horror film, so while this film wasn't to my personal taste, it was good for what it is. If you liked McCarthy's other films, you'll like this too.

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A ★★★ review of Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) "Lee Cronin's The Mummy" (yes, that is the full onscreen title and not just the one for marketing) is an odd-feeling movie when you're watching it. The skeleton of the narrative is more or less the te...

#LeeCroninsTheMummy #TheMummy - A paint-by-numbers possession film spiced up by the stylistic hot sauce that is Cronin's direction. An absurd amount of split diopter shots! Wan & Blum's blandness at war with Cronin's talent, ending in a truce.

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Per the Speech & Debate Clause, Senator Wyden, Rep Massie & literally any congressperson could leak the “secret interpretation of surveillance law” without fear of prosecution.

I get not wanting to test it under Trump, but you have the ability to leak it if it’s that bad. Do your duty, Senator.

A ★★★ review of Over Your Dead Body (2026) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

#OverYourDeadBody - American remake of "The Trip" will play better if you haven't seen the OG, which is darker and doesn't telegraph its twists as hard. If "The Trip" is a cocktail w 2 oz of spirit, OYDB only has 1 oz. Still gory tho!

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A ★★★★ review of Faces of Death (2026) The original "Faces of Death" was a faux documentary mixing staged violence against humans and real violence against animals from sourced footage, edited together in the "Mondo" style as either an end...

#FacesofDeath #fod2024 - Two impressive lead performances and tons of wonderful creative choices. Exceptionally pleased with the film's meta commentary, as well as its bonafides as a straight ahead, Thomas Harris-like horror/thriller with teeth

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A ★★★ review of Exit 8 (2025) A list of rules? Pattern recognition? Is the creator of the video game this film is based on on the Spectrum, perhaps? "Exit 8" is one of those films like "Cube" where a person or persons are trapped in a confined location and need to figure their way out. It's nowhere close to being as great as "Cube" was (few films are, including the Japanese quasi-remake of it from a few years ago), but it's a decent watch thanks to the fun concept and the filmmaking skill behind it. There were aspects about it I found frustrating, it lacks a

#Exit8 - A "Cube"-like film based on a video game that is sometimes frustrating, and lacking a certain survival element that might have been helpful. It's a decent, fun enough time, though.

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What Do You Mean By A "Scary" Movie? YouTube video by Leninhawk

New YouTube video, because my autistic ass has never understood what people mean when they ask if a movie is "scary".

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A ★★★ review of Pizza Movie (2026) “Pizza Movie” mixes 00s college-aged comedies (think “Harold & Kumar”, “Dude, Where’s My Car?”, or “Accepted”) with the more wacky and absurdist humor found on Adult Swim. I thought the results were p...

#PizzaMovie - A fairly funny throwback to 00s college comedies mixed with absurdist, Adult Swim-type humor.

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I think Donald’s at Walter Reed hospital right now, social media posts from 3 hrs ago said this and the major road into the hospital is blocked off. There’s an emergency meeting at the WH. Not getting anyone’s hopes up but if it’s true I’ve got bubbly chilling.

A ★★ review of Pretty Lethal (2026) "Pretty Lethal", a movie about ballerinas fighting to survive while trapped by a Hungarian mafia of sorts, is the type of film that needs to be a bit of unpolished, exploitation cinema to really work....

#PrettyLethal - What's with this new trend of movies that FEEL like YA stories aimed at 14-year-olds, yet feature decidedly R-rated violence and blood? "Clown in a Cornfield" was another one. Like a Freeform TV movie trying to be John Wick.

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A ★★★★ review of The Drama (2026) I love movies that delve into murky waters about morality, and boy does "The Drama" go there! That the film also happens to be incredibly, darkly funny is just icing on top. Maybe it's social media or...

I love movies that delve into murky waters about morality, and boy does #TheDrama go there! The film also happens to be incredibly, darkly funny for icing on top. Exploring context and severity versus black-and-white thinking, I loved it.

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A ★★★½ review of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Of course the head of an evil Satanic empire that runs the world would live in Newport, Rhode Island! At least poor David Cronenberg didn't have to actually step foot in my former cesspool state, sinc...

The head of a Satanic empire WOULD live in Rhode Island!

#ReadyorNotHereICome is a highly enjoyable, fun sequel, even if it doesn't reach the heights of the original. It's also exponentially better than that crappy "They Will Kill You" movie.

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A ★★★½ review of Alpha (2025) After winning the Palme d'Or for her second feature, "Titane", writer/director Julia Ducournau followed up that success with "Alpha". Premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, "Alpha" was not recei...

#Alpha - I think the unfairly negative reviews out of Cannes were bc the themes present in the first 2 acts take a backseat to the themes revealed in 3rd act. Mostly a straight-ahead drama with mild body horror elements. It's very good, tho.

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A ★★★ review of Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" (I'll just call it MNNA from now on to save myself having to type that repeatedly) is a pretty fun high-concept action comedy. I was wondering why so many people I follow ...

#MikeandNickandNickandAlice - A fun little action/comedy (80% comedy, 20% action) with a time travel spin on things. The humor mostly works and Marsden and Vaughn seem to have a good time playing in the world. Good for being direct-to-streaming

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A ★★ review of They Will Kill You (2026) "They Will Kill You" has the same problem "Gunpowder Milkshake", another Tarantino knock-off, had: it's so concerned with trying to be "cool" that it instead comes across as obnoxious. This film is be...

#TheyWillKillYou has the same problem "Gunpowder Milkshake", another Tarantino knock-off, had: it's so concerned with trying to be "cool" that it instead comes across as obnoxious. Never as fun as it should be.

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A ★★★★ review of Project Hail Mary (2026) It's funny how co-director Phil Lord is such an anti-Communist gusano, and yet made this film which is about collective effort and teamwork over individual wants/fears, and occasionally needing force ...

#ProjectHailMary - About as a great of a popcorn movie as Hollywood allows us to have nowadays, in terms of mass-market, four-quadrant, big studio films aimed at normies. You'll laugh, you'll cry...all the cliches!

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A ★★★ review of Slanted (2025) I had heard "Slanted" was a horror film prior to seeing it, but it's not. There are some body horror elements in the 3rd act, for sure, but the overall film is sort of an uneasy cross between a dramat...

#Slanted - Doesn't do the best of job of balancing serious character drama with very exaggerated, hyperbolic satire, but I ultimately enjoyed it. Shirley Chen and Mckenna Grace both great in the lead role. Loved the aspect ratio change.

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I didn't watch much this week.

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A ★½ review of The Bride! (2026) Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a lot of big, creative swings with "The Bride!", her second film as writer/director after the quite good "The Lost Daughter". Unfortunately for her, and ESPECIALLY unfortunatel...

#TheBrideMovie - An "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards" screenplay. An attempted Me Too-spin on Frankenstein so obvious the main character screams "me too" twice in its climax. A big creative swing that misses.

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A ★★★ review of Dolly (2025) "Dolly" is proof positive that almost any horror film is immensely improved in quality when it is shot on 16mm. If this film had been shot on digital, I'd probably feel similarly to how I felt about t...

#Dolly - Proof positive that any horror film is immensely improved when it is shot on 16mm. Plot is a little overly familiar, but I like the throwback vibe to grindhouse films of the "Mother's Day" or "Just Before Dawn" variety.

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A ★★★½ review of Scream 7 (2026) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

My massively spoiler-filled review of #Scream7. Bottom line, I liked it more than I expected to, while still having major issues with certain aspects.

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A ★★½ review of Psycho Killer (2026) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

#PsychoKiller is baffling, odd, and inexplicable. I will not for a second tell you it is a good film. However, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the experience of watching it. You will not guess where the film goes in the climax!

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