Author Chris Sawin

December 12, 2022

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio has been in development since 2008 and was even cancelled at one point before being resurrected by Netflix. The stop-motion animated musical fantasy film combines many of del Toro...

7.5

‘Christmas Bloody Christmas’ Review – The Magic Of Christmas Is Santa’s Ho-Ho-Homicide

December 9, 2022

Christmas Bloody Christmas claims that robot technology that the US defense department spent $1 trillion on was utilized to make a state of the art animatronic Santa Claus model to replace the every day, lacklu...

‘Violent Night’ Review – Santa Delivers An Ooey Gooey Squelchy Head Squashing

December 9, 2022

It’s Christmas Eve and Santa Claus (David Harbour) is getting drunk. The kids of today don’t appreciate the gifts they’re given as their greed often overcomes a meaningful Christmas season. Time spent with fami...

ALL ABOARD -- Walt Disney Animation Studios’ original action-adventure “Strange World” journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest—and by far— most crucial mission. The film features the voices of (clockwise from top left) Lucy Liu as Callisto Mal, the leader of Avalonia; Jake Gyllenhaal as farmer and father Searcher Clade; Dennis Quaid as diehard explorer and Searcher’s father, Jaegar Clade; Gabrielle Union as pilot and mother Meridian Clade; and Jaboukie Young-White as the youngest Clade, Meridian and Searcher’s son, Ethan. “Strange World” releases November 23, 2022. © 2022 Disney. All Rights Reserved.

‘Strange World’ Review – A Mundane Narrative Nurtured By Invigorating Visuals

December 2, 2022

What happens when an animated film puts all of its energy into its beautiful visuals, adds in the barest of story threads as an afterthought, and gives little attention to anything else? You get Disney's lat...

‘Hellraiser’ (2022) Review – Taste the Pleasure of a Decent Remake

October 7, 2022

Ever since Clive Barker's original source novella The Hellbound Heart, the highlight of any given Hellraiser project has always been the lore surrounding the franchise's iconic puzzle box and the demonic Cenobi...

‘Blonde’ Review – A Shattered Humpty Dumpty Violated by Success

October 7, 2022

Based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde a historical psychological drama which tells a fictionalized version of American pop-culture icon Marilyn Monroe's life - and it's also the ...

Fantastic Fest 2022: ‘Smoking Causes Coughing’ Review

October 1, 2022

The Tobacco Force hasn't been working as a cohesive unit as of late, despite their shared ability to use the negative energy of tobacco as a weapon to - in their own words - "suffocate our adversaries until the...

Fantastic Fest 2022: ‘Kids vs. Aliens’ Review

October 1, 2022

On one of the many weekends their parents are out of town on business, Gary (Dominic Mariche), his older sister Samantha (Phoebe Rex), and his friends Jack (Asher Grayson) and Miles (Ben Tector) decide to use t...

9.5

Fantastic Fest 2022: ‘Shin Ultraman’ Review

September 30, 2022