An umpteenth adaptation that’s fine (Spoilers) The plot of Frankenstein is something that you’re probably already familiar with, but let’s do this one more time. It’s about a mad scientist who brings to life a makeshift man, only for it to go horribly wrong. This new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s often-told tale was written and …
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F4AR STREET
A marginally entertaining letdown (Spoilers) Fear Street: Prom Queen is a soft reboot of the 2021 summer slasher spectacular (you should familiarize yourself with the previous trilogy because there will be spoilers). Lori Granger (India Fowler) is a high school senior who everyone thinks is a psycho like her mom, who allegedly killed her dad. …
Die Harder
A good movie for a happy Christmas Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is a TSA worker at LAX who’s recently learned that his girlfriend Nora Parisi (Sofia Carson), who works as a manager at the same airport, is pregnant. Working the baggage-scanning area during a Christmas Eve shift, Ethan starts getting orders from a mysterious traveler, …
The Bland Man
Chris Evan’s catchphrase in this is eerily prophetic. (Spoilers) Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling) is a CIA assassin whose target at the movie’s start is Dining Car (Callan Mulvey). After completing his mission with help from fellow agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas), Six acquires a MacGuffin with things about CIA official Denny Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page) …
Face to face
Another day, another chainsaw massacre. (Unmarked Spoilers) Melody (Sarah Yarkin) is a young chef who has traveled to a small town of Harlowe along with her younger sister Lila (Elsie Fisher) and others. They’re planning on auctioning off the property of the town, but then they meet Virginia (Alice Krige), a resident still living in …
Fly the Unfriendly Skies
At least there’s nothing on the wing of the plane. (Unmarked Spoilers) Nadja (Peri Baumeister) and her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) are traveling from Germany to the United States so that Nadja can partake in a special treatment program to cure her vampirism. Unfortunately, their plane ends up getting hijacked by terrorists. Berg, the …
Terror Trilogy
And I thought living on Elm Street was bad. (Unmarked Spoilers) Ah, R. L. Stine. Growing up, I loved Goosebumps. It was the first series I got into reading on my own, as opposed to Captain Underpants and the Magic Shop, which got read to me. I never read Fear Street, though. From what I …
Mmm…milkshake
Yet another enjoyable case of déjà vu. Sam (Karen Gillan), a professional assassin, is sent by Nathan (Paul Giamatti) to kill David (Samuel Anderson), who has stolen from the organization they both work for. Only after she shoots him does Sam discover that the money was so that David could pay the ransom of his …
Girlboss
She steals because she cares. Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) is a legal guardian who gets her elderly wards assigned to assisted living facilities to sell off their house and belongings while also stealing their life savings. That is so appalling yet legal, you know there is a 100% chance of it happening in real life. …
You complete me
This type of Cyrano scheme never goes wrong. (Unmarked Spoilers) Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) is a high school senior who, for a price, writes her classmates papers as part of what seems to be an open secret. One day, Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) approaches her with a request that’s a little different. He wants her …
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