There’s been no shortage of lamentation here at InRO about how the contemporary Hollywood studio system has mostly abandoned mid-range, mid-budget action movies in favor…
Jalmari Helander’s Sisu is a lean piece of filmmaking with a simple pitch: a one-man army violently dispatches a handful of Nazis at the tail-end…
Legendary author Judy Blume holds a special place in this writer’s heart, a sentiment that may seem peculiar given Blume’s specialty in chronicling the tumultuous…
After Jerry Seinfeld and his “What’s the deal?” color commentary on the silliness of the quotidian struck gold in Seinfeld, comedians started to habitually appear…
The hardest working man in show business, otherwise known as John Swab, is back with One Day as a Lion, the director’s third feature of…
It’s 2023, and while movies barely exist anymore, franchises certainly do. Hence John Wick: Chapter 4, a film that brings the whole John Wick series…
It’s the mark of a truly lazy and amateur writer to begin any piece with a dictionary definition, specifically one which relates back to the…
In the summer of 2001, Lionsgate distributed two brutal films about young adults carrying out murderous conspiracy plots against their friends. The first, Larry Clark’s…
A rare dramatic turn from Anna Kendrick, Alice, Darling surprises with its nuanced, twitchy lead performance. Alice (Kendrick) chooses to lie to her emotionally abusive…
When Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses was released in 2003 (following numerous distribution delays by its original producer Universal Studios due to objectionable content),…
While the ongoing Liam Neeson dad-action-movie concern has been producing ever more diminishing returns, over the last decade and change, just about nobody has so…
Prey for the Devil is boring and self-serious therapy session posing as a horror flick. It’s been a while since Hollywood went truly bugnuts over horror…
Clerks III is a fans-only venture that’s sunk by a childishness devoid of wonder and poignant moments consistently undermined by self-mockery. In Arthur Penn’s 1967 Bonnie…
Fall is an utterly dull would-be thriller that squanders the visual possibility of its premise and trades only in inane melodrama. 2018’s Academy Award-winning documentary Free…
There are pockets of interest to be found in Paradise Highway, but its mediocre mashup of genre and weak character work ensure that it never rises…
The latest film to fail to properly utilize the cornfield’s unique horror setting, Escape the Field isn’t the least bit scary, clever, or compelling. Speaking…
Unbearable Weight is the latest high-concept, one-joke movie, but it’s thankfully a funny enough joke to justify the film’s existence. Nicolas Cage is Nicolas Cage —…
Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop rides its quaint aesthetic all the way to feeling already dated. On paper, Brad Watson’s Miss Willoughby and the…
Moonfall is big, dumb, exuberant fun and a welcome blockbuster-sized tonic from the endless IP regurgitation clogging theaters. Who’s ready for another disasterpiece from the…
Shattered is a sleazy erotic thriller knockoff, one that never realizes its camp potential but which boasts a few poor-taste pleasures along the way. Hidden within…
American Underdog is an inoffensive but utterly bland bit of hagiography, only slightly elevated by its surprising visual merit and an affable leading man. By all…