Hi, Mom. I know I said I didn’t want to go to camp this year. I said nobody ever talks to me. Nobody ever asks me to swim or hike, or play truth or dare, or arm wrestle. Nobody offers me an enchilada....

Ghost in the Cell by Hope Madden Joko Anwar makes a lot of movies. Not all of them are worth watching, but when he hits, you can expect grimy, bloody fun. Perhaps none more unexpectedly fun than his l...

The Last First: Winter K2 by George Wolf “Whoever climbs K2 in the winter will claim the last great prize in mountaineering.” In 2021, that mission became a deadly competition. Businesses were reeling...

The Incomer by Hope Madden The Incomer, acclaimed short filmmaker Louis Paxton’s first feature, opens as a sort of fairy tale. A woman’s voice begins a narration about two gulls, brother and sister, a...

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Join local author Hope Madden as she signs her two books "Roost" and "Killer Pictures" and also hosts a podcat recording for Fright Club.

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Forgotten Island by Hope Madden Who knew that an animated/anime mashup of John Hughes and The Hangover would amount to such a blast of a kids’ movie? Forgotten Island is nothing if not weird. The late...

You Had to Be There by George Wolf Don’t pretend you don’t want to hear a homemade recording of a 15 year-old Martin Short singing Frank Sinatra tunes in his bedroom. You Had to Be There gives you tha...

The Stunt Driver by George Wolf If you’ve seen the underrated 2011 hockey comedy Goon, you’ll understand why I was stoked for The Stunt Driver. It reunites writer/director Michael Dowse with star Jay ...

Sasha Waters brings the film to the Wex this Friday, September 25 for a sort of homecoming screening.

Bloody Tennis by Hope Madden German filmmaker Nikias Chryssos does not hide his influences. After witnessing the brutal slaying of a beautiful girl, we watch a young American student being driven to a...

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Goody Goody by Hope Madden Filmmaker Raymond Creamer made the most of what he had for his feature debut, Goody Goody. What did he have? Four talented actors, two locations, and a knack for atmosphere....

The Weight by George Wolf A few desperate men are given the chance to wipe their slates clean. Transport some precious cargo across 100 miles of hazardous terrain —including one very unstable bridge —...

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom by Hope Madden Fully two decades ago, the gang at Aardman animation produced Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and it was perfect. A perfect fa...

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Resident Evil by Hope Madden A lot of people seem curious to know what Zach Cregger is doing following up Weapons—one of the most revered horror films of the last decade—with the seventh installment i...

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Runner by George Wolf When all the running is done, Runner ends up caught in a movie limbo that is very 2026. If this has gone direct to streaming, it would rate above average among some less than ste...

Hope by Hope Madden When I learned that Na Hong-jin, the filmmaker behind 2016’s The Wailing and 2008’s The Chaser, was releasing a creature feature this year called Hope, well, I was as on board as a...

The Sun Never Sets by George Wolf Buried deep in the guts of The Sun Never Sets is a movie we’ve seen plenty of times. It’s that amusing, sometimes zany rom-com where two impossibly attractive people ...

Penny Lane Is Dead review. Hope Madden on Mia Kate Russell’s Australian home invasion horror, its practical gore, and the tonal clash that holds it back.

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The Deb by Rachel Willis After pulling a feminist-themed stunt at school, Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) is banned to the bush; more specifically, the small town of Dunburn where her cousin Taylah (Natali...

Idiots by Matt Weiner It took many years and a last-minute safe-for-work title change for Idiots to reach screens. Writer-director Macon Blair, always a welcome presence in front of the camera, has ta...

Penny Lane Is Dead by Hope Madden It’s 1986 in Australia. Three brand new high school graduates plan to spend the night at Penny Lane’s (Bailey Spalding) grandparents’ empty lake house. Their moms dro...

Boorman and the Devil by George Wolf There was a new list floating around social media this week, and it ranked the 25 all-time worst movie sequels. 1977’s Exorcist II: The Heretic was nowhere to be f...

Buddy by Hope Madden If you ever watched the old Barney & Friends TV show and worried that a big dinosaur who loses his temper could easily kill a bunch of children, well, you and Casper Kelly both. K...

It Ends by George Wolf Just in case Backrooms was too abstract about the anxieties plaguing Gen Z right now, It Ends arrives to hammer the point home more directly. Writer/director Alex Ullom’s featur...

Colony by Hope Madden Before filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho thrilled and devastated in equal measure with his 2016 zombie masterpiece Train to Busan, he scared us with its animated prequel (Seoul Station). Th...

Coyote vs. ACME by Hope Madden Three years after Warner Brothers shelved Coyote vs. ACME for a tax write off, the delightful live action/animation hybrid finally hits big screens this week. My interes...

The Snare by Rachel Willis When scholarship student Dani (Cassady McClincy Zhang) is picked up for carrying a miniscule number of illegal pills, her life is forever altered in writer/director Merlin C...

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Blood Shine by Hope Madden Writers/directors Emily Bennett (who also stars) and Justin Brooks explore the concepts of sadism and masochism as vehicles for filmmaking in their spare, effective, bloody ...

The Magic Faraway Tree by Hope Madden “The magic of childhood is always forgot, but this is the story of one who did not.” So begins The Magic Faraway Tree, director Ben Gregor’s fantasy about unplugg...

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma by Hope Madden Don’t make the mistake of assuming Jane Schoenbrun’s new feature Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a slasher. Or a slasher spoof. Or a satire ...

Bury the Devil by Hope Madden Things don’t often go well for live-in nurses in horror movies. Whether the caregiver is a loved one (Undertone, Relic, The Taking of Deborah Logan) or a professional (I ...

Tony by George Wolf Among other things, Tony is another reminder that we’d all be better off if everyone’s first job was in a restaurant. It certainly altered the course of Anthony Bourdain’s life, an...