Shut In
Single mother and recovering addict Jess (Rainey Qualley) gets locked in her cupboard in this Christian thriller they should have called Satanic Panic Room. Disturbia director D.J. Caruso takes another […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
The Columnist
A columnist (Katja Herbers) takes revenge on her Twitter trolls in the 2019 Dutch dark comedy they should have called Doom Scroll. Ivo van Aart keeps the satire straight and […]
Signs
Mel Gibson plays a dad, priest and farmer visited by aliens in this 2002 M. Night Shyamalan flick he should have called Father Father Farmer Sky. This farm-based thriller finds […]
Terrifier 2
Art the Clown is back in Damien Leone’s two-hour-twenty coulrophobic epic. One year after the Halloween massacre of Terrifier, Art (David Howard Thornton) starts nosing around a recently bereaved family, […]
Point Break
When the FBI suspect a surfer gang of perpetrating a string of bank robberies, rookie agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) must go undercover for some covert surfing – or incognito […]
The Substance
After being fired from her aerobics TV show on her 50th birthday, Elizabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) takes a mysterious cloning serum (a Dolly mixture?) that creates a younger version of […]
Terrifier
When two friends (Jenna Kanell and Catherine Corcoran) encounter a silent clown about town (David Howard Thornton) on their way home from a party, their Halloween night quickly goes from Pennywise […]
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 […]
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: […]
Shin Godzilla
The Japanese government is thrown into a tailspin when Godzilla emerges from the ocean depths and starts trampling Tokyo, which had presumably only just been rebuilt from the last time […]
