Category: Horror
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Weapons: Elementary Horrors and Uncomfortable Laughs
Weapons (2025) Zach Cregger Whiplash confirmed! After breezing through a shockingly kid-coded horror/fantasy movie in Sketch, I walked right over to my next auditorium and began Weapons right as I finished my Sketch review. The tonal shift was abrupt and significant, and I was totally there for it. I’m not seasoned in the world of horror movies, but Weapons felt especially unique and uniquely unsettling, bordering on dreadful. As I write my review, everything’s still feeling pretty…
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Sinners: A Gospel of Blood and Blues
This review contains spoilers. Sinners (2025) Ryan Coogler It seems fitting that I spent my Good Friday seeing a film called “Sinners”, and though Ryan Coogler’s original story rarely dealt directly with religion as the movie’s title would have one assume, Sinners was a thrill and a huge surprise regardless. I initially wrote Sinners off as more horror fluff, but once the Letterboxd rating started going up after its debut, I got…
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Death of a Unicorn: Ortega, Poulter, and the Unicorn Kill Shot You’ll See Again and Again
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Alex Scharfman I first caught wind of Death of a Unicorn at the beginning of the year as I was bolstering my 2025 watchlist, and as more information and trailers became available, I became more interested. It was difficult to picture a world where I didn’t enjoy a Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega-led unicorn movie, and luckily I didn’t have to find out the hard way. Death of a…
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Opus: I Think I’ve Seen This Film Before
Opus (2025) Mark Anthony Green I first heard about Opus as I was perusing the selection of Sundance movies that Morgan and I could watch from the comfort of our couch, and though it wasn’t available to us at that time, it’s available now and we even caught it in a theater! I had middling expectations coming in, but I was there for Ayo and an interesting concept, and that’s what I…
