Bite-Sized Review: MADAME WEB (2024)
I’m going to admit that I went into watching Sony Pictures’ Madame Web—based on the Marvel Comics character from the Spider-Man universe—with a skeptical eye and less-than-high expectations. The press...
Blu-ray Review: Ambulance’s Confinement Plays Well Under Quarantine
Across four decades, Michael Bay hasn't really changed. But it's remarkable how much the attitude toward him has. When he started out as a filmmaker in the Tony Scott mold under Jerry Bruckheimer's umbrella,...
4K Review: The King’s Man Gets Less Flippant, Stays a Tonal Mess
The standard formula in every live-action adaptation of a Mark Millar comic (Wanted, Kingsman, Kick-Ass) is thus: reasonably ordinary person discovers he's surprisingly good at a thing, but not quite good...
4K Review: 20 Years of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Though I'm pretty sure it made my personal ten best list in 2001, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a near-insane gamble for a major studio film. The hook was that it was a movie making the first serious...
Saw on 4K Review: Grimier, Less Colorful…In a Good Way?
It's a minor miracle that a small, independent horror film that's basically a rip-off of Seven (I absolutely refuse to write it with the number 7 in the middle of the word, sorry) combined with the climax...
Review: Spiral, From the Book of Saw, Tries to Cut a New Path
John "Jigsaw Killer" Kramer (Tobin Bell) died in Saw III, but it took five more movies to permanently bury him, narratively speaking. At a certain point, a story is going to run out of feasible flashbacks...
Blu-ray Review: Fun ‘Freaky’ Is Finally an Affordable Friday for One
It probably goes without saying, but let's reiterate for those who have (reasonable) trouble keeping up with movies in a non-theatrical environment: Freaky, out now on Blu-ray and digital, very much wants...
Review: SYNCHRONIC
FreakSugar contributor Tim Avers joins us once again to give us his take on the Justin Benson/Aaron Moorhead-directed film Snychronic. Imagine your best friend’s daughter is lost in a world of drugs, and...
4K Blu-ray Review: David Ayer’s The Tax Collector Feels Fun but Unfinished
RLJE Films Full disclosure right off the bat: I am generally a fan of David Ayer. I'm wearing a Suicide Squad T-shirt as I type this. And odds are you like him more than you think -- did you remember that...
A Word or Two on BRIGHTBURN
FreakSugar contributor Tim Avers is back to share some thoughts on the superhero/horror film Brightburn. Just under a year ago James Gunn vanished from Hall H of San Diego Comic-Con where he was to publicly...