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Review: Cillian Murphy Leads a Heavy but Human-Centered Steve About a Boarding School on the Brink

Though he’s broken through to the mainstream moviegoer’s radar since his Oscar win for Oppenheimer (and perhaps beforehand for his leading role on the much-loved Netflix series Peaky Blinders), Cillian […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 3, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Great Daniel Day-Lewis Returns to Acting in Anemone, Co-Written With and Directed by Son Ronan

    There’s an interview clip floating around this week where Oscar-winner (and one of our best living actors) Daniel Day-Lewis takes umbrage with having the term “retirement” attached to his recent […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 2, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Bone Lake, Two Couples Collide on a Weekend Getaway Where Survival isn’t Certain

    Clearly, the horror season is upon us (with so much more to come this month), and one of the ickier entries, at least in terms of appropriateness, is director Mercedes […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 2, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Good Boy is a Moving Horror Movie Featuring a Standout Canine Performance

    It’s going to sound like a gimmick, but let me assure you, it is not. The new Ben Leonberg-directed/co-written horror film Good Boy has a main character named Indy, who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 2, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Dwayne Johnson Delivers a Career-Best Performance in Benny Safdie’s Genre-bending Sports Film The Smashing Machine

    Based on the 2002 documentary of the same name, The Smashing Machine does something different in the sports-movie genre by simply dropping us in the middle of the life of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 2, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Skating over Seriousness, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie Provides Plenty of Familiarity, Fun for Little Ones

    Based on the wildly popular Netflix series created by some of the creators of Blue’s Clues back in 2021, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie is an extension of the show that […]

  • Alex Orona
  • September 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Delivers a Great Action Pic in Timely, Insightful Adaptation One Battle After Another

    In any other action movie, the emphasis on a revolutionary would be on his/her glory days of radical acts, like blowing up buildings, freeing political prisoners, etc. But in writer/director […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Nonagenarian June Squibb Is a Leading Lady in Scarlett Johansson’s Directorial Debut Eleanor the Great

    June Squibb is having a moment. At 95 years old and with an acting resume that dates back to the mid-1980s, the longtime character actor is finally becoming a leading […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Emma Thompson Stars as a Survivalist Widow in Harrowing Dead of Winter

    In what could easily have been an entry-level thriller set in a frigid climate, the filmmakers behind Dead of Winter did an astonishing thing and hired Emma Thompson to play […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Fantastic Fest Review: The Strangers: Chapter 2 is a So-So Continuation of a Horror Saga Long in the Making

    In something that is more of an interesting experiment than an actual event worth celebrating, director Renny Harlin and screenwriters Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freeland announced they were taking […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Dispatch: Two Thrillers from Fantastic Fest Put Groups of Men, Young and Older, to the Test

    Beast of War Shockingly enough, there are still a few fresh takes on the killer shark story, and the Australian film Beast of War gives us one of the stronger […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 24, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Fantastic Fest Review: A Struggling Family Faces Wild Animals and Their Own Demons in Coyotes

    The latest from director Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive) is the brisk, sometimes truly scary Coyotes, which finds ways to be funny and gross, as well as […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 21, 2025
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