Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stars in this biopic of the rock group Queen and its iconic lead singer Freddie Mercury, chronicling the group’s formation, meteoric highs, and lows, culminating in its legendary reunion appearance at the 1985 Live Aid concert. While director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, the X-Men movies) ticks all the expected biopic […]
In the trailer, this Tyler Perry film is billed as a comedy about two sisters, one newly released from jail (Tiffany Haddish), the other a successful ad executive (Tika Sumpter), who exact revenge when they discover the latter is likely being catfished by her never-before-seen online boyfriend. And had this film actually been about their […]
Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell star in this heartbreaking biographical drama about the havoc a young man’s years-long meth addiction, recovery, and recurring relapses wreaks on himself and his immediate family. Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) skillfully captures the deceptive nature of drug addicts, who, as those with firsthand knowledge are aware, habitually lie […]
When a malevolent presence starts wreaking havoc inside several nearby homes in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, a couple of paranormal investigators and an ex-cop get involved, hoping to solve the mystery, in this Argentinian horror from writer/director Demián Rugna. Despite some amateurish production values and a strange story, Terrified has a certain simple creepiness to […]
Seven strangers, each with a secret, meet on a fateful 1969 evening at the El Royale Hotel, a once popular, but now rundown establishment straddling both the California/Nevada border as well as its own sordid past. While writer/director Drew Goddard (who wrote The Martian and Cloverfield) isn’t giving us a story that hasn’t been done […]
Forty years after the original Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis is back as Laurie Strode, the battle-scarred babysitter who survived the now iconic John Carpenter horror film. Decades later, she is a PTSD sufferer/survivalist, hellbent on exacting revenge on the murderous Michael Myers, who (surprise!) escapes while being transported to a new state psychiatric facility to […]
Imagine if NBC’s generational tear-jerker drama series This Is Us was transported into a spooky, decades-spanning story centered around a sinister house of supernatural and psychological horrors. Such is the brainchild of creator Mike Flanagan, who re-teams with his actress wife Kate Siegel (Hush) and Carla Gugino (Gerald’s Game) in this very loose Netflix original adaptation of […]
Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) brings us the story of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, in this adaptation of James Hansen’s much-heralded 2005 biography written in cooperation with the now-departed astronaut. Ryan Gosling’s spot-on portrait of the famously stoic and unemotional Armstrong shows the terrible physical and […]
After being contacted by a mother claiming her young son has been taken by wolves, wolf researcher Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) arrives at an outpost in the remote Alaskan wilderness to track down and locate the boy, just as the missing boy’s father (Alexander Skarsgård) is returning from the war in Iraq. But as the […]