Category: Crime
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The Rip Review: Good Will Stunting
THE RIP (2026) Why did I hate this movie? Everyone involved is working hard to make it look and sound good, which it does, if it’s a tad dark and loud. I’ll always tune in for Matt Damon, and he’s good, and serious and working hard as usual here. The story, based on real events,…
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Top Five Worst Films of 2025
These lists are bullshit. Movies, film, art, blockbusters…they are designed to entertain us in exchange for money. It’s a system and that’s okay, as it’s what we got and it works for now. The good ones make us feel; feel excited, annoyed, joy, and away from our lives for a short while as we experience…
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Bugonia review: Stone is busy as a bee
BUGONIA (2025) We all want to believe. Don’t we? Someone or something must be in charge of all of this, this chaos is ordered somehow, and we all receive our just desserts eventually; or are the winners on this planet simply taking the rest of us for fools as they manipulate our minds and souls…
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Monster: The Ed Gein Story Review: A mamma’s boy in the making
MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025) Multiple things can be true at once. Just ask Ed Gein. He’s been dead since 1984, so that’s not possible, nonetheless his perspective is the subject of the third installment of the Monster anthology series, following Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez…
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Havoc Review: Yup, lots of Havoc (and nothing but)
HAVOC (2025) Director Gareth Evans – The Raid: Redemption (2011), The Raid 2 (2014) – brings his signature style of post John Woo, Gun-fu for the direct-to-streaming Netflix universe. We have bigger names – Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker – a bigger budget and a teeny plot. But let’s be honest. There’s little need…
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Riff Raff Review: Less riffing more raff
RIFF RAFF (2025) Truth be told, I didn’t have high hopes for director Dito Montiel’s – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), Man Down (2015) – latest offering Riff Raff, but the cast was intriguing. I mean, Bill Murray as a shady underworld crime boss accompanied by the preternaturally creepy/depressive Pete Davidson has a…
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Borderline Review: B for effort
BORDELINE (2025) After penning the tight and hilarious Cocaine Bear (2023), Jimmy Warden makes his directorial debut with Borderline, starring his very watchable wife Samara Weaving – Azreal (2024), Ready or Not (2019) The Babysitter (2017) – as a fictionalized ’90s Madonna, basically enduring an extremely exaggerated version of an actual event. On April 7th…