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285 | The Long Walk

285 | The Long Walk
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 48min

  • Directed by Francis Lawrence

  • Written by JT Mollner, based on the novel by Stephen King

  • Stars: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill

  • Released in US September 12, 2025

  • RT: 90% critics / 85% audience 

  • Currently in theaters

    Synopsis

    In the United States of an undetermined year, 50 boys are chosen from a lottery - one from each state - to walk as long as they possibly can. They may not drop below 3mph. The last boy standing wins.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Cuckoo, currently streaming on Hulu and Kanopy.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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284 | Final Destination: Bloodlines

284 | Final Destination: Bloodlines
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 50min

  • Directed by Zach Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein

  • Written by Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor

  • Stars: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones and Tony Todd

  • Released in US May 16, 2025

  • RT: 92% critics / 87% audience

  • Currently streaming on HBO

    Synopsis

    Tragedy is averted in the 1960s when a woman has a premonition of a tower collapse and alerts revellers in time to get everyone out safely. Unfortunately, Death can hold a grudge for a loooong time, because in the present day, that woman’s granddaughter is plagued by dreams of the same tower collapse and returns home from college to get to the bottom of why. Soon she learns that Death has been taking all the survivors of the near-tragedy one by one, as well as all the children they shouldn’t have been able to have, and she will soon be next.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Long Walk, opening in theaters September 12.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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283 | Weapons

283 | Weapons
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 2hr 8min

  • Written & Directed by Zach Cregger

  • Stars: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Benedict Wong

  • Released in US August 8, 2025

  • RT: 94% critics / 86% audience

  • Currently in theaters

    Synopsis

    Early one morning every child but one from teacher Justine’s elementary school class runs outside and disappears. Angry parents demand answers from the teacher, but the remaining child, Alex, is who they should be asking.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Final Destination: Bloodlines, currently streaming on HBO

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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282 | The Rule of Jenny Pen

282 | The Rule of Jenny Pen
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 44min

  • Directed by James Ashcroft

  • Written by Eli Kent and James Ashcroft, based on a short story by Owen Marshall

  • Stars: Geoffrey Rush, John Lithgow and George Henare

  • Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 19, 2024

  • Released in US March 7, 2025

  • RT: 71% critics / 54% audience

  • Currently Streaming on Shudder and AMC+

    Synopsis

    An elderly judge suffers a stroke on the bench and finds himself in a nursing home that is ruled by an unhinged resident and his creepy puppet. 

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Weapons, opening in theaters on August 8th

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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281 | The Damned

281 | The Damned
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 29min

  • Directed by Thordur Palsson

  • Written by Jamie Hannigan

  • Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole and Siobhan Finneran

  • Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 6, 2024

  • Released in US January 3, 2025

  • RT: 90% critics / 47% audience

  • Currently Streaming on Hulu

    Synopsis

    A widow is tasked with running an isolated fishing outpost in Iceland at the end of the 19th century. When a ship wrecks on some rocks off the coast, she makes the decision not to rescue the passengers, dooming her crew to madness and danger.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Rule of Jenny Pen, currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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280 | 28 Years Later

280 | 28 Years Later
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  • Rated R

  • Runtime: 1hr 55min

  • Directed by Danny Boyle

  • Written by Alex Garland

  • Stars: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes

  • Release in US theaters June 20, 2025

  • RT: 88% critics / 63% audience

    Synopsis

    12yr old Spike lives with his domineering father and mysteriously ill mother on a small island less than a mile away from mainland northern England. While safe there from the infected, the citizens uphold a tradition that sees their young people escorted to the mainland to kill infected as a rite of passage. Disillusioned after his outing and determined to locate the rumored doctor there, Spike sneaks out of the compound with his mother in tow in an attempt to cure her illness.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Damned, currently streaming on Hulu

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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279 | The Ugly Stepsister

279 | The Ugly Stepsister
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  • Not Rated 

  • Runtime: 1hr 49min

  • Written & Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt

  • Stars: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss and Ane Dahl Torp

  • Premiered at Sundance January 23, 2025

  • Limited Release in US theaters April 18, 2025

  • Currently Streaming on Shudder and AMC+

  • RT: 96% critics / 86% audience

    Synopsis

    Rebekka and her two daughters, Elvira and Alma, move into the estate of her new husband, Otto, and his beautiful daughter, Agnes. Elvira, the oldest of Rebekka’s daughters, is a dreamy, braces-wearing teen who swoons over the kingdom’s handsome prince and his romantic poetry. But when Otto dies suddenly and it is revealed that he was deeply in debt, Rebekka is forced to pile all her hopes for financial stability on the prince choosing Elvira as his bride at the upcoming ball. In order for the plain and gawky Elvira to catch his eye, she must undergo a series of horrifying medical procedures to become more beautiful.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing 28 Years Later, currently playing in theaters.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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278 | Bring Her Back

278 | Bring Her Back
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  • Rated PG-13 

  • Runtime: 1hr 43min

  • Written & Directed by Logan George & Celine Held

  • Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlen and Lauren Ambrose

  • Released on streaming October 10, 2024

  • RT: 76% critics / 79%  audience

    Synopsis

    Siblings Andy and Piper, who have just lost their father, are placed in foster care with a mysterious and seemingly unstable woman named Laura who is also grieving a loss. They also meet their new foster brother, Oliver, a mute and extremely creepy little boy.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing The Ugly Stepsister, currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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277 | Caddo Lake

277 | Caddo Lake
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  • Rated PG-13 

  • Runtime: 1hr 43min

  • Written & Directed by Logan George & Celine Held

  • Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlen and Lauren Ambrose

  • Released on streaming October 10, 2024

  • RT: 76% critics / 79%  audience

    Synopsis

    In Louisiana, near the border of Texas, the mother of a young man named Paris has a seizure and falls off a bridge while driving her car with her son. He saves himself but is not able to rescue his mother who disappears in Caddo Lake. In a house near the lake, teenager Ellie lives with her mother Celeste, her stepfather Daniel and her eight-year-old stepsister Anna. Ellie has arguments with her mother because of her father that she never knew and questions whether he really died. When Anna disappears in Caddo Lake, Sheriff Taylor organizes a search party to look for her in the lake. Meanwhile Paris is researching why his mother had seizures when the water level is low in the lake. Ellie decides to look for Anna in the lake and finds a mystery.

 

Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Bring Her Back, opening in theaters May 30.

Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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