The Housemaid (2025) [REVIEW]
Our long, national nightmare is over and, after six weeks, we finally have another Sydney Sweeney movie! It was touch-and-go there for a while, but we persevered, somehow. Even though […]
Category Archives: decent non-horror
Hamnet (2025) [REVIEW]
Jessie Buckley delivers a knockout performance, but Chloe Zhao’s direction and the weight of Shakespeare’s “genius” take you out of the experience.
Die My Love (2025) [REVIEW]
If you had said a decade ago that Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson were starring in a movie together with “love” in the title, you’d likely assume that the two […]
Christy (2025) [REVIEW]
Sydney Sweeney has become a lot like pineapple on pizza: everyone needs to have an opinion one way or another, and the straightforward opinion carries a lot of unintended baggage. […]
The Art of Self-Defense (2019) [REVIEW]
Few things are as awful in the world right now (and, I guess, throughout all of history) than entitled and toxic men. You’re probably thinking, “Wait a minute, Wolfman…aren’t YOU […]
Mohawk (2017) [REVIEW]
One of the more enjoyable haunted house movies I’ve seen in recent years is 2015’s We Are Still Here from writer/director Ted Geoghegan (yes I friggin’ spelled that without having […]
A Vigilante (2018) [REVIEW] [SXSW ’18]
The first film I ever saw at the South by Southwest Film Festival was The Incredible Burt Wonderstone which was, in a word, “dog crap.” Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, and Olivia […]
Small Town Crime (2017) [REVIEW] [SXSW ’17]
Since you all love me and obviously read and memorize every review I ever write, you might recall my Small Crimes review in which I discussed how many movies shared […]
Us and Them (2017) [REVIEW] [SXSW ’17]
Guys, I did it! I’m back at SXSW! I am cool, once again! It only took another 20-hour drive to do it, but I am once again big time. As […]
Camino (2015) [REVIEW]
FULL DISCLOSURE: survival horror typically isn’t my thing. Sure, I enjoy Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek 2, and sure, you could describe a lot of movies featuring serial killers hunting […]
The Wolfman Cometh 