The First Omen
Rome, 1971. Two scantily clad nuns (?) head to their local disco to dance to music that wouldn’t be released for another few years; the first omen that this prequel […]
Tag Archives: 2020s
The Coffee Table
This is a Spanish black comedy about a dysfunctional couple (Estefanía de los Santos and David Pareja) who get into a row over the husband’s impulsive purchase: an unbreakable coffee […]
No Way Up
No Way Up concerns a plane that crash-lands in the Pacific Ocean, where it is set upon by sharks presumably attracted to its slippery tail fin. The trailer for this […]
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
The sequel to one of the many escape room-themed thrillers that came out between 2017 and 2019, Sony’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is not to be confused with Taskmaster: […]
In a Violent Nature
This Canadian slasher flick tells a classic camping trip massacre from the perspective of the guy doing the massacring (Ry Barrett). Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature proves an interesting […]
Trap
Months after producing his daughter’s first directorial feature (The Watched), M. Night Shyamalan launches his other daughter’s pop career in this thriller they should have called Attack of the Nepo […]
Only the River Flows
When dead bodies start washing up on the riverbank, a police detective (Zhu Yilong) loses sight of whether he is solving a case or abetting a cover-up, like a Chinese […]
Sleep
A somnambulant actor (Lee Sun-kyun) and his pregnant wife (Jung Yu-mi) get a rude awakening in this K-horror they should have called Dozemary’s Baby. The debut feature from Jason Yu […]
Twisters
The Hollywood remake machine picks up and spits out Twister, the twist being that this time a woman (Daisy Edgar-Jones) gets to be the weather whisperer. Not really disaster movies […]
Longlegs
A Satanic serial killer (Nicolas Cage) murders families in a ritualistic birthday-based sequence in this thriller they should have called The Birthday Basher. Osgood (son of Anthony) Perkins’ extended riff […]
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