
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