Author: Derrick Murray

The Academy Awards has officially announced the nominations for the 95th annual Oscars ceremony. Check out the full list!

“Missing” is a solid anthology follow up that keeps you on the edge of your seat and utilizes all of its technology tools to deliver a thrilling, engaging new generation mystery.

“The Old Way” misses on every level, including Cage who can’t overcome glaring shortcomings, snail pacing, and incomprehensible script.

“Plane” is the Spirit Airlines of mid-level action thrillers, selling you budget thrills but overcharging you for everything once you’ve bought your ticket.

“M3GAN” arrives as the first wide theatrical release of 2023 and is here to slay. Literally.

Happy birthday Nicolas Cage! Born January 7th, 1964, the prolific American actor has done just about everything under the sun in terms of roles and movies. Drama, Horror, Comedy, Action and more, it’s hard to find a film genre that doesn’t have at least one performance from the eccentric actor. Love him or hate him, Cage is guaranteed to always give you 100% Cage. It’s almost impossible to find a movie in his very long filmography that you can point to and say he phoned it there. He operates at 11 out of 10 at all times, whether it works…

As Boys II Men would say, we’ve come to the end of the road. After 200+ new films and few category best lists to eliminate some contenders and make the list more manageable, we’ve come to the fateful attempt to boil down the entire year to 10 films. Admittedly, it was incredibly difficult to try select the top 5% of such a massive watchlist, and even as I write this I’m not even 100% sure I got it all correct. So before we get into the list, let’s set some expectations and disclaimers to add some context as to how…

I regrettably did not watch enough animated features this year. Not sure if was a lack of options or I just didn’t seek them out as often as I normally do. Attacking such a vast array of films (and total number) does leave some categories lacking, and unfortunately animated films took the largest hit in 2022. I’m sure excluding anime entirely and zero desire to sit through another Minions film doesn’t help, either. There’s probably a lot of marque animated releases I just didn’t get to, so I”m fully expecting a lot of “why wasn’t SUCH AND SUCH ON YOUR…

I think 2022 has been the year of genre breakouts. Often pushed to the outskirts of fanfare and reserved for die hard lovers of the macabre, this year has seen a mainstream resurgence of horror unlike any other. Everything from brutal slashers to psychological thrillers to high minded outings have all had their time in the spotlight this year, and there were so many great entries I felt compelled to give them their own top 10. I’m not even a fan of the genre (something I’ve said over and over again with every new horror film) but 2022 made a…

Here are the 10 best documentaries we watched in 2022