The one horror movie where you don’t want to keep it in your pants (Unmarked Spoilers) Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy) is the daughter of local Sheriff Brent Marken (Michael Biehn) and the final girl of Cherry Falls, a slasher movie from the early 2000s. Though not by virtue of being the only virgin in the …
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Dither
Where are all the superheroes? (Unmarked Spoilers) Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion) is the chief of police in Wheesly and has been carrying a torch for his childhood friend Starla (Elizabeth Banks) for years. Starla is a schoolteacher molding young minds like Kylie Strutemyer (Tania Saulnier). Starla’s also married to an older, wealthier, and less attractive …
Scary Movie
Not my favorite, but still pretty good. (Massive Unmarked Spoilers) The fifth installment of the Scream trilogy opens with Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) stuck home alone when she hears her landline ringing. When she picks up the phone, she’s greeted by a voice (Roger L. Jackson) and then attacked by someone wearing a familiar costume. …
A child’s plaything
A review of Chucky season 1. (Unmarked Spoilers) Chucky is the latest iteration of the long-running Child’s Play series. Each installment concerns serial killer Charles Lee Ray aka Chucky (Brad Dourif). Right before his death, he transferred his soul into a doll, eventually learning how to split his soul into multiple vessels at once. And now he’s back …
…Who you gonna call?
The movie fans have been waiting for (Unmarked Spoilers) Phoebe (McKenna Grace) is a young prodigy who moves into the home of her recently deceased grandfather’s house along with her brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and mom Callie (Carrie Coon). There Phoebe discovers evidence that said grandfather was one of the Ghostbusters, and despite being a …
…In your neighborhood…
The underrated sequel (Unmarked Spoilers) The OG Ghostbusters are back, baby. You got Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). After saving the world by besting a literal god, everything should be coming up roses, right? Wrong. Much like Men in Black 2 or Alien 3, this is …
If there’s something strange…
The beloved original and not so beloved remake. (Unmarked Spoilers) Ghostbusters is a 1984 film about an awesome Ray Parker Jr. song and nothing else. I’m kidding, of course. It’s about the antics of a team of ghost hunters as they try to save the city from a supernatural menace. The film was remade in 2016, …
Don’t hate the player
Just a sweet sweet fantasy, baby (Unmarked Spoilers) Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is a friendly non-player character in Free City, this multiplayer game that’s all about destruction. Every day he and his buddy, Buddy (Lil Rel Howery), sit in the background as players, distinguished by their sunglasses, hold up the bank where they work. Everything changes when …
Duper
Before any Guardians or Squad, there was the Crimson Bolt (Unmarked Spoilers) Frank Darbo (Rainn Wilson) is a troubled man whose wife, Sarah (Liv Tyler), is “stolen” by a drug lord named Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Subsequently believing himself to have been given a mission from god, Frank becomes a superhero, the Crimson Bolt, to rescue …
…Die if I want to, die if I want to
What? It’s a catchy song. (Unmarked Spoilers) Slumber Party Massacre, directed by Danishka Esterhazy and written by Suzanne Keilly, follows in the tracks of Evil Dead and Fast & Furious where it’s a sequel and/or remake that retains the original title, just without the ‘The.’ It follows Dana (Hannah Gonera), who’s decided to go on …