Can VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE be considered a horror movie? I mean, it’s about a serial killer on death row who gets possessed by an alien symbiote and goes on a mad rampage, so I’m thinking horror-wise, it’s a slam dunk. Okay, yeah it’s also a Marvel superhero movie – although not a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie (or is it?) – and a (romantic?) comedy but then if, say, ARMY OF DARKNESS can be…

As a parable for the current climate crisis, THE TOMORROW WAR works to the extent that it tells a story of humanity being informed that certain doom is coming in thirty years’ time unless drastic action is taken and, in response, humanity shrugging their shoulders. As an action movie, it just about passes muster, provided you’re okay with it being so very, very derivative. But as a serious…

Perhaps the only thing surprising about the recent crop of time-loop movies over the past year is that there haven’t been more of them. With nearly the entire global population forced to experience an ersatz GROUNDHOG DAY lifestyle, you have to think there are many more in the pipeline but if they’re all as good as PALM SPRINGS (and THE MAP OF TINY PERFECT THINGS) then this is a trope I look…

Released this coming Friday, “Whiplash” tells a story you will have seen before. The story of a young and talented protégé who is taken on by an unconventional and driven mentor determined to propel them both to greatness whatever the cost. It’s the well-worn trope of a dozen sports movies and even more army boot camp films but “Whiplash” rises above its clichéd story beats thanks to its fresh…