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The Nun – Film Review

All the promotional material that has been released regarding Corin Hardy’s The Nun has called this entry in the now long-running Conjuring film series the “darkest chapter yet”. After seeing the film, I am genuinely baffled as to how The Nun – the film with the most cheap and boring scares and most humor involved is the darkest chapter. In Romania…

  • 2026

Kin – Film Review

Kin desperately makes an attempt to balance science fiction action with a dramatic family story at its core, but ultimately comes off as nothing more than an under two hour bloated mess that is never fully able to balance its sci-fi and family themes. After an ex-convict gets released, him and his brother go hide out…

  • 2026

Slender Man – Film Review

The film adaptation of the Internet urban legend Slender Man is here on the big screen about five years late, and proves to be an absolute mess filled with poorly written characters, cheap and lazy scares, and bad dialogue. A group of teenage girls living in Massachusetts grow a large interest with the Internet urban…

  • 2026

Searching – Film Review

Up and coming filmmaker Aneesh Chaganty’s first feature film Searching is filled with brilliantly executed suspense. A man named David Kim (John Cho) lives peacefully at home with his teenage daughter Margot (Michelle La). One day, however, Margot no longer texts her father and has not returned home in a long while, and eventually is considered to…

  • 2026

The Happytime Murders – Film Review

The Happytime Murders aims for shock value, laughs, and a fun time. Unfortunately, the film is not funny nor fun. What’s shocking though is how bad it truly is. In a world where puppets and humans live on Earth, a detective named Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy) goes on a journey to find out who is…

  • 2026

Oculus – Film Review

Horror film directing master Mike Flanagan showcases some of his best talents with 2013’s Oculus, a horror film that focuses on mirrors. Who knew mirrors could be so unnerving? A woman named Kaylie Russell (Karen Gillan) discovers an antique mirror, and believes that it is the very thing that killed her loved ones years before. Now,…

  • 2026