Good Things Take Time: Brute 1976 (2025)

When Raquel (Gigi Gustin) and June (Bianca Jade Montalvo) made their way into the southwestern desert, they intended to meet up with their friends for a photo shoot. Instead, they wind up stuck on …

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Everything Feels Fresher in the Company of the Nutjobs of the Marigold Cottages: Jo Nichols’ Murder on Charity Lane

The residents of Santa Barbara’s Marigold Cottages community are recovering from their brush with murder, amateur sleuthing, and the occasional bad (if not legally indefensible) choices they made d…

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Grunts, Gunshots, and Grumbling Detroit Engines: Motor City (2025)

Picture it! Detroit in the mid-1970s … John Miller (Alan Ritchson) is an ex-con who’s just gotten the best news of his life: He’s finished parole, released into citizenship again, and he’s on…

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Fate’s Fickle Finger: Sorcerer (1977)

An assassination in Vera Cruz, a bombing in Jerusalem, embezzlement and suicide in Paris, and a robbery gone wrong in Elizabeth, New Jersey send four people on an unintended collision course in the…

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A Nasty Piece of Work: Jim Thompson’s The Criminal

When Josie Eddleman was found sexually assaulted and murdered, the town of Kenton Hills was outraged. They wanted justice for the young woman, and while the police saw no reason to detain the last …

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Unhappy Birthday to You, Unhappy Birthday to You, Unhappy Birthday Dear Harold, Unhappy Birthday to You: The Boys in the Band (1970)

Michael (Kenneth Nelson) is hosting a birthday party for Harold (Leonard Frey), but as the grand event starts to close in, he gets a call from his old university pal Alan (Peter White). During it, …

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Rising Hopes and Tensions: Lee Goldberg’s Fallen Star

As a heads up, there are a few spoilers in this piece. Even Ronin and Duncan Pavone have a few challenges in their future. On The Job side of things, a flash mob robbery in progress is the first, a…

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If You’re Doing a Remake, You Can Get Away With … Murder: Faces of Death (2026)

Margot Romero (Barbie Ferreira) has had her brush with internet fame, when she and her sister (Tiffany Colin) filmed themselves dancing on train tracks as a speeding train came along. They planned …

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Making the Sacrifice Mean Something: Expendables 4

Barney (Sylvester Stallone) is well aware of the sacrifices he’s made to be a mercenary. At this point, he’s living without relationships aside from the camaraderie he’s acquired with fellow warrio…

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Punctus Contra Punctum (Note Against Note): Kailee Pedersen’s The Minimalist

Mia Voss is a composer and pianist, who lives and breathes the minimalist style. Her one great, unacknowledged lover Oliver Wakefield and her mentor (her lover’s father) Ryder Wakefield are both go…

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Do Not Overlook Any Anomalies: Exit 8 (2025)

During his subway commute to a night job, which is typically spent scrolling through newsfeeds (tonight’s showcase homelessness, rats used as living organ growing mediums, and a flood), an unnamed …

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Silence on the Set. Tape Rolling. 3, 2, 1, Action! Clown in a Cornfield 4: Lights! Camera! Frendo!

The town of Kettle Springs, Missouri is being invaded. This time it is not by paranoid jerks who think Quinn Maybrook and her pals were misguided or outright evil, who seek to punish them. This tim…

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The Least of the Three: Supergirl (2026)

Kara (Milly Alcock) is celebrating her birthday week in the best way possible, an intergalactic bar crawl. Why intergalactic? Well, earth’s yellow sun makes her super, which means she processes alc…

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Big Bosses, Kaiju, and Golden Bananas: Minions and Monsters (2026)

Little did any of the tourists who were visiting the Hollywood history museum realize that the Minions were not only a part of the industry’s past but its saviors. However, tour guide Olivia (Allis…

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The King is Dead. His Kingdom is No More: Archer Sullivan’s Brimstone Hollow

A year or so after the events of The Witch’s Orchard, Annie Gore has survived the publicity of that case and wound up with a mound of bills, few clients, and a diminishing sense of worth. Luckily, …

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Slash Dunk! Night of the Dribbler (1990)

The Watergate Plumbers are on a losing streak, but maybe with a better team captain they can do better. It can’t be the fault of enthusiastic Coach Cherry (Fred Travalena), since he’s got all kinds…

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Listening to that Little Bad Choice Voice: Tanisha Stewart’s Should Have Thought Twice

Shatina has a bright future ahead, thanks to good grades and a twelve-year championship at the spelling bee. However, she’s missed a few things along the way. Like getting kisses and romance. Like …

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Alice Doesn’t Kill Deadites Here Anymore: Evil Dead Burn (2026)

Alice (Souheila Yacoub) and aggressive douchebro hubby William Price (George Pullar) have a nasty fight during a birthday bash for Will’s beta male brother Joseph (Hunter Doohan). William heads out…

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Cycling Back Around: Are We Good? (2025)

Grief is a sonofabitch. Sure, there is a generalized process for passing into and through it, which are outlined by the famed seven steps. However, it comes back around, bites a person on the ass a…

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She Loved With a Love That Was More Than Love: Macabre (1980)

When her husband Leslie Baker (Fernando Pannullo) leaves on a business trip, Jane (Bernice Stegers) is ready for a little trip of her own: Across town to a love nest apartment with her hunky partne…

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Pamela’s Unnerving Discoveries: Catherine Cavendish’s Ghosts of Chanterlands

As Hitler’s bombardment of London ramps up, families who are able send their children to the relative safety of the countryside. Pamela Christine Courtney is one such kid, and her parents feel she …

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The Street Cats of Istanbul: Kedi (2016)

Istanbul is a city on the rise, with fifteen million residents and growing. Of course, that number only accounts for the human residents. The feline population is also quite large, hundreds of thou…

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Opening the Door: Stir of Echoes (1999)

Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a regular guy who hates being a regular guy. He loves his wife Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) and adores his five year old son Jake (Zachary David Cope), but he had a lot of drea…

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A Cozy Screwball: Jo Nichols’ The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

Mrs. Golda Bakofsky is the owner of the Marigold Cottages, a group of small, affordable rentals in Santa Barbara, California. She’s getting on in years, but she rents to those who touch her heart s…

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Kung-Fu Rivalries Meet the Macabre: Human Lanterns (1982)

Master Tan (Chen Kuan-Tai) has a fine home, an impetuous but loving sister Mei-Mei (Hsiu-Chun Li), and strong kung-fu. What else could such a man want? At his latest party, he announces his betroth…

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Demons, and Therapists, and Witches (Oh My!): Graeme Reynolds’ By Dawn’s Early Light

Jack Carlton is recovering from his previous adventure, trying to be a better father to his teenage daughter Stephanie, coping with the death of one dear friend and the maiming of another, while al…

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Some Tough Crowds Suck More Than Others: Slay (2024)

Mama Su Flay’s (Trinity The Tuck) heads a quartet of performers, and on the road to their latest gig, choreographer Olive Wood (Cara Melle) is asking a lot of difficult questions, bucking Mama’s or…

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You Are Mine and No One Else’s: The Voices of Our Mother (2026)

Harriet (Shelia McCarthy) had four kids who left her all alone. Their father was a wicked, abusive man and she did nothing to stop him. However, she’s also emotionally stunted and is under the watc…

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You Settle Fast or Go Broke: Jim Thompson’s Nothing More Than Murder

Joe Wilmot is in a bit of a bind. He’s the manager of the Barclay movie house, a cinema his wife Elizabeth owns (begun by her family, it still bears her maiden name), as well as the manager of its …

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Answers Are a Fiction to Make Us Feel Safe: Nightwatch (1997)

Martin Bells (Ewan McGregor) is a student looking for extra money and some quiet. So, he takes a job as the night watchman at the Medical Examiner building on campus. It’s a job his girlfriend Kath…

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