Undertone Dials In Terror and Tension

Undertone Dials In Terror and Tension

Undertone ★ ★ ★ ½ Undertone is a one-location micro-budget horror film that triggered a bidding war when it premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2025. It was eventually acquired by A24. The initial budget? $500,000. It’s proof that a good story, shot and told...
Reminders of Him Has Heart, but Pulls Its Punches

Reminders of Him Has Heart, but Pulls Its Punches

Reminders of Him ★ ★ ★ Reminders of Him stars Maika Monroe as Kenna Rowan, a young woman just released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence for manslaughter. She was driving when her car crashed, injuring herself and killing her boyfriend, Scotty (Rudy...
War Machine Is a Brutal Blast of Sci-Fi Action

War Machine Is a Brutal Blast of Sci-Fi Action

War Machine ★ ★ ★ War Machine is a sci-fi action thriller about a group of Army recruits in the final stage of a special ops boot camp. Their final test is a simulated op in the forests of the Colorado Rockies. They quickly find themselves in an impossible battle with...
Hoppers Trades Pixar Magic for Surface-Level Charm

Hoppers Trades Pixar Magic for Surface-Level Charm

Hoppers ★ ★ ½ Hoppers is the latest Pixar animated adventure, following young animal lover Mabel (Piper Curda) as she does everything she can to save the glade by her grandmother’s (Karen Huie) house from Mayor Jerry Generazzo (Jon Hamm), whose city beltway project...
The Bride! Is Dead on Arrival

The Bride! Is Dead on Arrival

The Bride! ★ The Bride! is directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and attempts to put a new twist on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The film opens in black and white, with Mary Shelley lamenting from some kind of spiritual limbo—tortured, tormented and angry. She wrote...