Hokum Haunts With Secrets, Shadows and Guilt

Hokum Haunts With Secrets, Shadows and Guilt

Hokum ★ ★ ★ ½ Hokum is a horror film about Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott), a successful author battling the demons of his past. He sips bourbon as he writes a bleak ending to a book series in his small, dark, concrete-style home while the rain paints water streaks down his...
Michael Is Entertaining, Anything But Thrilling

Michael Is Entertaining, Anything But Thrilling

Michael ★ ★ ½ Michael is a biopic about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. It’s directed by Antoine Fuqua, a director known for the hard-hitting action thriller Training Day. Jackson’s story is ripe for Fuqua’s storytelling: an iconic rise to fame scarred by...
Fuze Is a Thriller That Knows Exactly Which Wire to Cut

Fuze Is a Thriller That Knows Exactly Which Wire to Cut

Fuze ★ ★ ★ ★ Fuze is an action thriller that jumps right into the action and tension immediately and doesn’t loosen its grip until the credits roll. The plot twists and turns as the story unfolds in unexpected ways that come at you from out of nowhere—they’re...
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Should Have Stayed Buried

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Should Have Stayed Buried

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy ★ Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is not the Brendan Fraser action-adventure mummy film many were expecting when the project was first announced. It attempts to create a darker, scarier monster film than the entries that preceded it. While it...
You, Me & Tuscany Coasts on Charm and Scenery

You, Me & Tuscany Coasts on Charm and Scenery

You, Me & Tuscany ★ ★ You, Me & Tuscany is a story about a young woman named Anna (Halle Bailey), who dropped out of culinary school two months before graduation when her mother became deathly ill. Understandably, her mom’s death sent her life spiraling out of...