Reel Reviews
🎥 Reel Review: Push (2025)
Now streaming on AMC+ and Shudder Alicia Sanz stars as a pregnant realtor trapped in a secluded Northern Michigan mansion during an open house that turns into a fight for her life. As labor begins, so does the nightmare. Directors David Charbonier and Justin Powell strip the genre to its bones: one woman, one location,…
🎬 Reel Review: Smurfs (2025)
This reboot is noisy, soulless, and misses what made the Smurfs succeed. Rihanna’s voice lends Smurfette some oomph, but the character remains one-dimensional otherwise. The film relies heavily on music and flashy animation, but the story never gains traction. It’s hectic, awkward, and tries way too hard to be modern. The jokes aren’t funny. The…
🎥 Reel Review: Great White Waters (2025)
A drug run goes wrong, a boat breaks down, and sharks begin to circle. That’s the pitch, and that’s all Great White Waters has going on. The setup is quick, but everything thereafter seems like it’s just ticking boxes—frantic crew, shark attacks, disposable backstories. Angela Cole leads the cast with solid presence, but the script…
🎥 Reel Review: The Twin (2025)
Grief becomes its horror in The Twin, a psychological chiller centered on a father haunted after the death of his son. Logan Donovan is raw and unflinching as Nicholas, whose strained marriage fractures even further when a shadowy doppelgänger begins to torment him. Aleksa Palladino plays Charlie’s wife, who struggles to hold onto their fractured…
🎥 Reel Review: Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story (2025)
What if the scariest part of Dracula wasn’t the vampire—but what he left behind? Abraham’s Boys reimagines Van Helsing not as a fearless monster hunter, but as a broken man unraveling before his two sons. Titus Welliver delivers a brooding, haunted performance as Abraham, who is both a protector and a threat. Brady Hepner and…
🎥 Reel Review: Pretty Thing (2025)
Pretty Thing tries to walk the line between erotic thriller and psychological drama but ends up being more restrained than risqué. Alicia Silverstone gives a good performance as Sophie, a high-ranking executive who becomes embroiled in a steamy relationship with a good-looking bartender (Karl Glusman). The chemistry between them works at first, but after things take a dark turn, the movie doesn’t quite live up to the menace it threatens. Glusman’s transition from attentive to obsessive is too subtle to be unnerving, and the tension never…
🎬 Superman (2025)
James Gunn kickstarts the new DC Universe with Superman—a hopeful, heartfelt reboot that’s precisely the tone reset the franchise needed. Gone are the shadows and cynicism. In their place: optimism, warmth, and a lead who feels like Superman again. David Corenswet makes a strong first impression, striking a balance between Clark Kent’s humility and quiet…
🎥 Reel Review: In Vitro
🎥 Reel Review: In Vitro (2025) On a dying Australian cattle farm, a married couple quietly unravels under the weight of drought, debt, and a secret cloning experiment no one’s ready to face. In Vitro isn’t loud sci-fi—it’s a slow, tense chamber piece that burrows under your skin. Ashley Zukerman plays it cold and coiled,…
🎥 Reel Review: Bad Shabbos
One body. One dinner. Zero chill. Bad Shabbos takes the “meet the in-laws” setup and dials it straight into chaos. When a Shabbat dinner meant to welcome a new fiancé spirals into a darkly comic cover-up, all bets—and boundaries—are off. Kyra Sedgwick anchors the madness as the tightly wound matriarch, trying to keep control while…
🎥Reel Review: Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox is a low-budget, high-concept sci-fi romp that throws logic into a blender and hits puree. Samuel Dunning stars as a narcissistic physicist who builds a time machine and uses it… to murder his past self. Over and over. What could go wrong? The answer: everything, and that’s the…