Tag: Adam Scott
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The Whisper Man Review: Hear us out
THE WHISPER MAN (2026) Us here at Premium Def, well… we don’t consider ourselves to be highbrows, cinephile-wise. Gun to our heads, we prefer John Carpenter to Jean-Luc Godard and John Hughes over Atom Egoyan every day of the week. We respect entertainment; set/setting and mood can dictate one’s tolerance for the derivative and even the…
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Hokum: Horror in plain sight
HOKUM (2026) If you’re looking for a moody, mysterious, whodunit, folk horror film (and I know you are), Hokum (2026) has it all, including a cantankerous Adam Scott in arguably his best performance to date. Writer-director Damian Mc Carthy has already earned his rank, possessing an impressive lead up with his debut Caveat (2021), followed…
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The Monkey Review: Opposable thumbs down
THE MONKEY (2025) Director, writer and actor Osgood Perkins – Longlegs (2024), The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015) – adapts the Stephen King short story The Monkey (1980) into a horror comedy? This should work right? Well the concept worked well enough to entice me to watch it. Unfortunately, killing off numerous undeveloped characters indiscriminately, Final Destination (2000-)…