Mortal Kombat II Is a Fatality-Filled Crowd Pleaser
Dan Kleiner “Strength is not a closed fist.”Mortal Kombat II is a dumb, fun, fatality-filled rumpus. It is a very smart, very silly movie. MKII fixes the biggest flaw that its predecessor,…
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War, Trauma, and Towering Mechs Collide in Gundam Hathaway’s Latest Chapter
“The more people, the more complicated the situation, and then it’s just chaos.” Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway-The Sorcery of Nymph Circe is a visual spectacle that suffers slightly from middle-sibling…
Review: Over Your Dead Body Is a Twisted, Blood-Soaked Comedy That’s Not for Everyone
“You would like a document, in writing, about our plan to kill my wife?” Over Your Dead Body is an absurdly over-the-top, blood-drenched, body-horror black comedy which crackles with energy…
Predator: Badlands Evolves the Hunt
Brian Isaacs - Executive Editor / Publisher Set on a harsh, remote world far from familiar battlefields, Predator: Badlands reimagines the franchise through an unexpected perspective, following Dek (played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a young Predator cast out…
Primate Is a Mean, Bloody Throwback to Creature Horror
“Who the fuck has a pet chimp?” Primate is essentially a retelling of Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror masterpiece Alien if the cargo vessel Nostromo, deep in the black void of…
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Stumbles Through Another Sleepless Night
“You’re crazy. Wanna sit with us at lunch?” The Five Nights at Freddy’s multi-media juggernaut rolls on with Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, a sequel to the very successful 2023…
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — A Mash-Up That Magnifies Every Flaw
“I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to…
Gorgeous, Grand… and a Little Too Much: Wicked: For Good
“The wand really sells it.” Overwrought and overlong, Wicked: For Good, the sequel to 2024’s award-winning Wicked, is an ambitious film that fails to meet the high bar its predecessor…
Class Warfare Meets Game Show Carnage in Wright’s The Running Man
“Don’t think before you speak, that’s for pussies.” Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is a complex and layered remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, which itself was based on…
When Crime Becomes Comfort: A Review of Roofman
“Criminals are cold and calculating. You’ve got the calculating part down, but you’re goofy.” Channing Tatum shows remarkable depth while Kirsten Dunst knocks it out of the park in the…