THE MONKEY (2025) (R) Dir. Osgood Perkins Gleefully gory, giddily gonzo and ghoulishly (quite) good, Perkins’ adaptation of the Stephen King short has a grinning, grisly charm that genuinely grafts guffaws and gasps…and guts. Grade (3.5 / 5.0) There is always something horribly true about the stories written by Stephen King. Whether peering into […]
A young nursing assistant in an existential crisis seems to attract trouble at every turn—a foul-mouthed ungrateful terminal patient, dog poop on her lawn, disrespectful clerks and customers in stores, and finally, her house being robbed. She reports the crime to the police, but gets little response. She tries to figure out what is happening.
There is a very good reason The Trust is debuting in limited release and VOD at the same time. When the film was introduced at SXSW, the announcer jokingly said it was “Very Cagey”, but for those who have charted the steady decline of the once admired Oscar winning actor, you know what it means.
This is the first new franchise Vin Diesel has appeared in since 2008. Diesel’s work for the past decade is full of “Fast & Furious” sequels with some “Riddick” sequels thrown in. “The Last Witch Hunter”, which is basically inserting Diesel into an “Underworld” type franchise, is set up for further installments.
Cooties rides the line of horror, gross behavior, and stupidity like Jennifer’s Body; This is the End or other over-the-top scary horror flicks. It’s a story about TV actors out of a current job, who band together to fill out Fort Chicken Elementary, where a terrible virus has turned the little ones into flesh-eating monsters.
The most interesting thing about Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows is how the entire film takes place on open windows, referring to the multiple windows or browsers we can have open on one screen. Sure, the realm of possibility is bent somewhat with when and where the characters can get camera and internet connections in the