Backrooms (2026)
[2] Backrooms started as an internet meme that turned into an open-source series of YouTube videos, video games, and a bunch of other crap that only GenZ give a shit about. I never wanted to see this movie because it…
Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
[5] The Venom trilogy stumbles in its finale, but it has some nice moments. Tom Hardy returns as journalist Eddie Brock, exiled to Mexico after events of the previous movie and still hosting Venom, a shapeshifting alien symbiote, in his…
Doctor Strange (2016)
[6] Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a celebrated surgeon who loses the use of his hands in a car accident and then pursues Eastern mysticism which, of course, leads to superpowers and magic and shit. Doctor Strange is another rote effort from…
American Gangster (2007)
[6] Ridley Scott directs from a script by Steven Zaillian this true story about a New York detective (Russell Crowe) and a drug lord (Denzel Washington) whose paths cross in the 1970s to expose deep-rooted corruption in the police force.…
The Martian (2015)
[8] Matt Damon carries this Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator) film based on the book by Andy Weir. Half the film is practically a one-man show, with Damon playing a NASA astronaut feared dead and accidentally abandoned on Mars for…
12 Years a Slave (2013)
[8] Director Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame) brings to life the true-life story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who is kidnapped and sold into Southern slavery. Northup endures two different owners and many harrowing experiences before…