Category: 2026 Movie Reviews
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Dolly (2026) Review: Rod Blackhurst’s Grindhouse Nightmare Turns Toxic Parenting into Brutal Folk Horror
Rod Blackhurst’s Dolly resurrects the grimy aesthetic of 1970s grindhouse horror and fuses it with the unsettling brutality of modern extremity cinema. Set deep within the remote forests of Tennessee, the film follows a couple whose romantic getaway spirals into a grotesque nightmare at the hands of a masked killer with a disturbingly childlike persona.…
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Georgina Campbell’s 2026 Horror Double Feature: Psycho Killer & Cold Storage Review
In just weeks, Georgina Campbell headlines two 2026 horror releases — the brooding slasher Psycho Killer and the zany sci-fi creature feature Cold Storage. While neither film reinvents the genre, both showcase Campbell’s growing presence as one of horror’s most reliable modern leads. Here’s my full review of both films.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review: Gore Verbinski’s Bold AI Satire Is His Most Urgent Film in Years
Gore Verbinski returns to live action with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, a dark comedy that feels less like science fiction and more like a warning. Starring Sam Rockwell, this AI satire explores tech addiction, youth alienation, and the fragile future of human connection — just in time for its theatrical release.
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Pillion (2025) Review: Harry Lighton’s Tender, Unorthodox Love Story About Power, Desire, and Self-Discovery
In Pillion (2025), director Harry Lighton explores queer love, power dynamics, and self-discovery within the world of a modern BDSM biker community. Anchored by performances from Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, this unorthodox romance challenges expectations of intimacy, consent, and emotional growth.
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Send Help Review: Sam Raimi Turns Workplace Toxicity Into Savage Survival Horror
What begins as a familiar corporate nightmare quickly mutates into something far more vicious. In Send Help, Sam Raimi transforms workplace toxicity, inherited power, and gendered labor into a brutal survival horror, where hierarchy collapses the moment it can no longer be performed. With Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien locked in a razor-sharp power struggle,…
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Sound of Falling Review: Mascha Schilinski’s Haunting Portrait of Women, Memory, and Witnessing
Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling is a haunting, non-linear meditation on women, memory, and the quiet violence of witnessing. Spanning generations within the same farmhouse, the film examines curiosity, abuse, and identity through fragmented vignettes that echo across time. It’s a work that lingers—less something to solve than something to feel.
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Dead Man’s Wire Review: Gus Van Sant’s Tense True-Crime Reckoning With Capitalism
Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire revisits a bizarre 1970s hostage crisis to interrogate desperation, capitalism, and media spectacle. Anchored by a career-best performance from Bill Skarsgård, the film refuses easy moral answers, instead asking whether its central figure was insane—or simply pushed there by a system designed to break him.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review — Violence, Faith, and the True Horror of Survival
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple expands the franchise in bold and unsettling directions, shifting its focus from survival to belief, from infection to ideology. Under Nia DaCosta’s confident direction and Alex Garland’s sharp writing, the film becomes a brutal meditation on faith, violence, and the human need to assign meaning to catastrophe. Anchored by…