Escape Room Review: Come for the Fun, Stay Because You’re Trapped
January kicks off in earnest with an inventive, if stock, puzzle-box horror flick.
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Bird Box Review: Sandra Bullock Battles An Apocalypse She Can’t See
Netflix’s dystopian horror has Sandra Bullock fleeing a horror that will kill you if you see it.
Alcohollywood Podcast Ep. 339 – Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
This week on the podcast, we stretch 00-vember into 00-cember with the flawed but fun Pierce Brosnan James Bond outing Tomorrow Never Dies!
Asher Review: A Creaky Pre-90s Hitman Thriller
Try as they might, even genre giants like Ron Perlman and Famke Jannsen can’t elevate this dull, by-the-numbers hitman thriller. The ‘90s were peak years […]
CAM Review: Netflix’s Peep Show Into the Terror of Stolen Identity
Director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei explore the complexities of online sex work with a fascinating thriller about a camgirl facing an identity crisis. […]
Twisted Pair Review: Neil Breen’s Latest Exercise in Baffling Anti-Cinema
The deeply strange Neil Breen returns with an even more deeply strange entry in his filmography of homespun, barely-coherent ‘psychological thrillers.’ One doesn’t review a […]
Alcohollywood Podcast Ep. 338 – The Living Daylights (1987)
As a busy Thanksgiving month winds down, we realized that we haven’t talked about a James Bond film for literally 200 episodes. To that end, we […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Review: The Coen Brothers Spin Six Tales of Old West Tragicomedy
The Coen brothers return to the Old West for a darkly comic anthology of six stories of doomed men and women out on the frontier. […]
Widows Review: An Enthralling Heist Thriller with Some Less Interesting Gangster Drama Touches
Steve McQueen’s ambitious, female-driven crime film sports fabulous performances, but bounces haphazardly between tones. The opening of Steve McQueen’s riveting new heist movie Widows is […]
Prospect Review: A Thrilling, Micro-budget Sci-Fi Western
Writer/director team Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell craft a grimy, visceral space Western about a family of prospectors risking their lives on an alien moon. […]