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Blood and Puppets

An fun B-movie that could have had better characterization (spoilers)

Following the death of his parents, James (Cameron Bell) was sent to live with his grandfather Geppetto (Richard Brake), only for his best friend, Zach (Elliott Spilling), to die shortly afterwards as well. That’s explained in an animated prologue, which has become a tradition in the Twisted Childhood Universe. At the same time, it would have been nice to see some of that. Anyway, Geppetto builds Pinocchio (Jude Evan Lloyd), saying it’s so James can have a best friend who will never die.

The Devil Still Wears Prada

A fine, if nostalgia-heavy sequel (spoilers)

Two decades after the last movie, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is still the editor-in-chief of Runway. She’s recently come under fire for publishing a positive piece about a company that’s actually a sweatshop. Irv Ravitz (Tibor Feldman), the owner of Runway’s parent company, Elias-Clarke, decides to hire Miranda’s former second assistant, Andi Sachs (Anne Hathaway), to be the features editor as a PR move.

Blood and Venison

The TCU’s first monster movie is doe not good (spoilers)

The fourth instalment of the Twisted Childhood Universe mixes things up by being a creature feature instead of a slasher. Bambi is a normal deer whose mother was killed by hunters, and his mate, Faline, is struck by a truck dumping toxic waste into the forest. After drinking from a contaminated stream, Bambi mutates into a killing machine.

Unwritten

A cute, if unoriginal Disney movie (minor spoilers)

Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) is a high school student who seeks to obtain the Helen Stoller Physics Scholarship to get into Harvard, but needs to pick a personal subject. Since she has an interest in ice skating, she decides to analyze the movement of figure skaters in relation to physics. That eventually leads to Casey realizing that she would like to compete as a skater in an upcoming competition.

Little Death At A Big Camp

A weird, well-done slasher movie (spoilers)

Warning: You should watch Sleepaway Camp before reading this review because I will be spoiling the infamous twist ending.

Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) is a “wunderkind” filmmaker who’s hired to reboot Camp Miasma, a once-popular slasher franchise. To that end, Kris seeks out Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson), who played the final girl in the first Camp Miasma before becoming a recluse. And get this, Billy lives at the isolated camp where they shot the film. If that’s not the perfect set-up for a horror movie, I don’t know what is.

Nobody

A well done adaptation of an old tale (spoilers)

Odysseus (Matt Damon), king of Ithaca, is a man strong of both mind and body. The latter is demonstrated when he’s the only person who can string his bow. The former is shown when he comes up with the idea of getting through the gates of Troy by using a wooden horse, though you probably already know that and several other parts of this review, since this is a very old and famous story that’s required reading for a lot of schools.

AUTO 3ROTIC

A step down but still entertaining M3GAN spin-off (spoilers)

David Wasson (David Rysdahl) is a programmer whose wife has recently died. His company, Canta Robotics, has been acquired by Ultima Robotix as part of a clear monopoly. Ultima offers an AI chatbot for lonely people and plans to take it to the next level by rolling out companion robots called SOULM8TEs. David volunteers to be a beta tester, which is how Sara (Lily Sullivan) goes from being a voice on his phone to a fembot.

Woman of Tommorow

A competently made superhero movie (spoilers)

Supergirl is loosely based on Tom King and Bliquis Evely’s beloved miniseries, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. It starts with Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl (Milly Alcock) having a birthday bender under a depowering red sun. While partying, Kara meets Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley), who is on a revenge quest against Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). Kara is initially uninterested, until Krem hurts her dog, Krypto. Big mistake.

Elle était si jolie

The most mean-spirited Evil Dead, thus far, does what it’s supposed to (Massive Spoilers)

Evil Dead Burn is about a woman named Alice Price (Souheila Yacoub), whose husband Will (George Pullar) has just died. After his funeral, Alice spends some time at the Price family lake house, which is then invaded by Deadites. Much like Evil Dead Rise, and Evil Dead (2013) to a lesser extent, the sixth installment in the franchise grounds its horror in a family drama.

Buffy, Season of Love

An even better second season (spoilers)

We’ve reached season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It starts several traditions, like having the season premiere begin in a cemetery or having a Halloween episode during even-numbered seasons. Before we get started, I would like to acknowledge the fact that this has been a very bad two years for Buffy fans, in the wake of the death of multiple main cast members and the reboot’s cancellation. The former has certainly made the show harder to rewatch.