About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): This is a darkly comic thriller about Ben Manalowitz (B.J. Novak), a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. I enjoy the big flashy film productions as much as the next …
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Time for a Reel NOPE review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): The film reunites Jordan Peele with Daniel Kaluuya, who is joined by Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Mysteries of the unknown will soon reveal themselves as Jordan Peele’s next unconventional …
Time for a Reel WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING review
About the film (courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment): This is the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, …
Time for a Reel DEATH ON THE NILE review
About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled …
Time for a Reel SCREAM review
About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past. Let’s get this out of the way since I’ve been stewing …
Time for a Reel WOLF review
About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): Believing he is a wolf trapped in a human body, Jacob (George MacKay) eats, sleeps, and lives like a wolf – much to the shock of his family. When he’s sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of ‘curative’ …
Time for a Reel ANTLERS review
About the film (courtesy of Searchlight Pictures): A small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, discover that a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) is harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences. Scott Cooper hasn’t been in the director’s chair since helming the brutally violent western drama Hostiles (2017) starring …
Time for a Reel LAST NIGHT IN SOHO review
About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): In acclaimed director Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter …
Time for a Reel OLD review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): A chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly … reducing their entire lives into a single day. M. Night Shyamalan always takes his …
Time for a Reel THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT review
About the film (courtesy of Warner Bros.): The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a …