Brightburn
Paint-by-numbers horror flick about a couple raising a young boy who turns out to have horrible powers.
Lookout
Nothing special, but a somewhat fun little indie sci-fi/horror flick about a gorgeous ranger stationed alone at a remote fire lookout tower for a month when otherworldly things start happening.
Fragment (2024)
A gorgeous programmer living in a remote desert home with her husband begins to hallucinate creepy things. Then there's some sort of satanic ritual, and then we see her absolutely…
Paul Blart, Mall Cop
This is not a very good movie, but, I will say, it's about ten times better than I expected it to be. I never like Kevin James nor the track…
The Morning Show (series)
Decent drama about the politics behind a morning news show and the network that puts it on. It's not top-flight entertainment like "The Larry Sanders Show", nor is it a…
Threads
Truly harrowing story about the buildup to and aftermath of a nuclear strike on Sheffield, England, following the intertwined lives of several people caught in the attack. This unflinchingly grim…
The Days Ahead
Decent anthology film showing three stories about survivors after a nuclear strike in modern-day England. It ain't "Threads" (an amazing movie I have somehow, incomprehensibly, not reviewed) but it was…
The Grey
Tough-as-nails Liam Neeson Liam Neesons around, this time around the Alaskan wilderness as the tough-as-nails leader of a band of tough-as-nails Alaskan workers stranded after a plane crash. Hunted by…
Severance (series, season 2)
Quirky conspiracy-style sci-fi thriller about employees of a company who are psychologically "severed" so their lives outside of and at work have no knowledge of each other. The first season…
You, Me and the Apocalypse (series)
Kind of an offbeat British/American comedy about an eclectic assortment of characters who become involved with each other in the days before humanity is due to be wiped out by…
The Fix
Alright sci-fi action thriller about a spectacularly gorgeous model (Grace Van Dien, great-granddaughter of Robert Mitchum) who ingests an experimental drug, intended to protect humanity from the increasingly toxic atmosphere,…
Life Cycle
A programmer living in isolation invents an artificially intelligent and thoroughly fake-looking but oddly expressive (thanks to some skilled puppetry) head, and charges it to learn to humanize itself. It…
Tin Can
Weirdly OK sci fi flick. In pandemic times, a scientist wakes up imprisoned in a life support unit, and spends the movie wandering a medical-facility-cum-military-installation, uncovering the truth about what's…
Hackers
I really wanted to like this movie. This was recommended to me by a few people in Indieweb when it was October '25 movie of the month for their Indieweb…
From Beyond
Scientist invents a machine that lets him see extradimensional creatures, and it turns out, let them see him. Another cheezy attempt at Lovecraft, this time with way more '80s fashions…
Undateable (series)
As hackneyed and unfunny as a sitcom can be. Chris D'Elia, who, despite whatever else may be said about him, is at least often a funny actor, is absolutely wasted…
American Gods (series, season 1)
Gritty fantasy show based on a Nail Gaiman about ancient gods fighting it out in modern-day American with the "new gods" of commercialism and technology. A very strong start to…
Spun
Gritty (for Hollywood) tale of a day in the life of speed freaks. I suppose this movie is alright. Despite being cast full of actors I don't like much (Jason…
Magellan
Another in a long line of "first contact" films that owe a debt to "2001: A Space Odyssey", but a decent entry in the arena. A lone astronaut on a…
Mr. Earth
Swing and a miss. A random man is picked to represent Earth before a tribunal of aliens evaluating whether to destroy it. Better-made than I expected, but, the first half…
Jules
Odd, fun little sci-fi/light comedy about an alien landing in an old man's flower garden in Pennsyvania. Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin, and Harriet Sansom Harris, still a heavy hitter in…
Don’t Turn Out The Lights
A bunch of kids on their way to a music festival are trapped when there RV breaks down on a wooded stretch of road, a bunch of random hallucinatory things…
The Perfect Babysitter (2025)
TV-movie-of-the-week-quality thriller about a psycho babysitter bent on tormenting a family.
The Other
Subpar, but not awful, horror thriller. Mute adopted girl harbors a horrible secret that possesses her mother. It's her psychotic twin who she ingested in the womb. Don't worry, I…
The Unbinding
A talky, overlong mocumentary about a "haunted object" research team that encounters a strange wooden effigy that seems to possess supernatural powers. I feel bad slagging it off, because it's…
Transmission (2023)
A montage of late-night channel surfing slowly reveals a story involving aliens, a horror filmmaker's mysterious unfinished film, a haunted videotape, and a local outbreak of violence. Told entirely as…
Shivers
A phallic/fecal-looking parasite that causes uncontrollable, violent sexual urges spreads throughout an exclusive apartment complex. How's that for an opener? I just can't be objective about early David Cronenberg. I've…
30 Days Of Night: Dark Days
This unnecessary but not-completely-dreadful sequel keeps a lot of the visual style of "30 Days Of Night"—a movie I'm pretty fond of—so it scores points by me for that. This…
Sting (2024)
Surprisingly fun horror about a young girl who takes a spider from space as a pet, which causes problems as it grows. Starts off with a "Goonies"-type "kid movie" vibe…