Fackham Hall
A spoof on Downton Abbey
Three promising holiday comedies
Only one delivers much fun
Jay Kelly
George Clooney plays an aging star & Adam Sandler is a revelation
Hamnet
Chloé Zhao’s exploration of grief & Jessie Buckley’s powerful performance
Wicked: For Good
Not as good
Eternity
Choosing between 2 men forever
Flight Risk
Mark Wahlberg plays a bald creep way over the top
Sentimental Value
A Scandinavian import with Stellan Skarsgård
Sisu: Road to Revenge
The sequel “jumps the shark” on the way to Finland
Train Dreams
Cinematic musings that recall Terrence Malick
Rental Family
Brendan Fraser pretends to be theirs
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
The gang’s back for mindless fun
The Running Man
Glen Powell competes to avoid death and make a billion $
One to One: John & Yoko
A final concert and more
Die My Love
Jennifer Lawrence goes all out trying for a tour de force
It Was Just an Accident
This Iranian import won the Palme d’Or at Cannes
Hedda
A very different rework of the Ibsen play
Ballad of a Small Player
Colin Farrell plays a down-on-his luck con man
Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone again
Nouvelle Vague
A recreation of the making of Godard’s groundbreaking “Breathless”
Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro’s tragic tale on a grand scale
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce
Blue Moon
Ethan Hawke as lyricist Lorenz Hart
Good Fortune
Aziz Ansari directs Keanu Reeves & Seth Rogen
Five Nights at Freddy’s
A dull, unscary adaptation of the video game
Saw X
Tobin Bell returns to torture his victims
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Dracula’s deadly ship trip to London
Talk to Me
An embalmed hand possess teens
Disquiet
Jonathan Rhys Meyers trapped in a hospital
Bird Box: Barcelona
The same alien invasion happens in Spain
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
A new angle on Frankenstein
Dead Ringers
Rachael Weisz as twins in this remake of Cronenberg’s thriller
Evil Dead Rise
The 5th & possibly worst in the series
Renfield
Featuring Nicolas Cage great fun as Dracula
Summoning Sylvia
A haunted gay bachelor weekend
Swarm
A stan goes dark (read review for a definition)
Two creepy concepts from Tony Basgallop
Servant & The Consultant
Infinity Pool
Alexander Skarsgård gets weird in the latest from Brandon Cronenberg
Sick
A slasher in the time of COVID
M3gan
A killer companion
Violent Night
Santa saves the day (or night)
Is this duo scary, creepy or what?
Smile & Cabinet of Curiosities
A duo of creepy period mysteries
1899 and The Wonder (current hits on Netflix)
Bones and All
Romantic road movie with a cannibalistic bend
Let the Right One In
The child vampire becomes a TV series
EARLY HALLOWEEN TREATS Vol 3
Vampires, witches and demons from hell
EARLY HALLOWEEN TREATS Vol 2
From Ryan Murphy The Watcher & AHS: NYC
Two franchises with new thrillers
Halloween Ends & Werewolf by Night