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"The Conjuring: Last Rites" will divide audiences with some people irritated by the fact there is too much talking going on and it takes too long to get around to the excellent special effects extravaganza everyone wants to see while other people will relish the slow build coupled with the Smurl family dynamics which are great fun to watch. In any case the film will certainly make you sit up and take notice and not just because of ceiling fixtures being ripped out or the levitation and beating of the family dog. No, you will sit up and take notice simply because this film lacks the inherent su…

The visuals in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" are luscious, hauntingly beautiful in ways that make you wonder: where did Herzog find these set pieces? The plague-ridden streets, the Gothic architecture, the rats flooding through medieval towns—it all feels discovered rather than constructed. This is Herzog's trademark style at its finest. You never feel like you're watching a movie. Instead, you're observing a documentary about a particular vampire, as though this is simply everyday experience captured on film. Klaus Kinski's interpretation is 180 degrees from Bram Stoker's Dra…

### **Review: *The Great Flood (2025)*** **Score: 6/10** *The Great Flood* is an ambitious and visually arresting disaster epic that aims to marry biblical-scale spectacle with intimate human drama. It is a film of awe-inspiring moments and powerful imagery, yet one that ultimately feels adrift in its own narrative depths, struggling to stay afloat under the weight of its grand intentions. **What Works (The Spectacle):** * **Breathtaking Visual Scale:** The film’s undeniable strength is its jaw-dropping visual effects. The rendering of the cataclysm—from the first…

### **Review: *The Running Man (2025)*** **Score: 7/10** Comparing any remake to the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic is a brutal contest. The original is a beloved, muscle-bound, high-camp satire of 80s media and authoritarianism, where the puns are as thick as the biceps. The 2025 adaptation wisely doesn't try to be that. It takes Stephen King's (writing as Richard Bachman) original dystopian novel and the core concept of a deadly game show—where convicts run for their lives while being hunted by celebrity "Stalkers"—and grafts it onto a sleek, modern framework. The result is a surpr…

### **Review: *Cashero (2025)*** **Score: 8/10** *Cashero* is a vibrant, clever, and refreshingly original superhero series that cleverly inverts the genre's usual power fantasy. Instead of super-strength or flight, our hero, Kang Soo, possesses a power born directly from South Korea's modern reality: his physical abilities scale in direct proportion to the amount of cold, hard cash in his bank account. This ingenious premise fuels a programme that is as much a sharp socio-economic satire as it is an exciting action-comedy, making for one of the most uniquely entertaining entries…

How far would you go to protect the welfare and well-being of a loved one? Are there any bounds in this, or is it something driven by the care and concern we hold for the individual we’re looking to support, something that knows no limitation, even if it involves violating legal, social and ethical standards? On top of all that, when circumstances reach a critical level, can we bring ourselves to follow through on our intentions? Those are among the hard questions raised in this fact-based drama about a terminally ill single mother, Irene (Lucy Liu), struggling to attend to the needs of her 17…

If I were an actor, I'd totally get the appeal of working with an eccentric director like Jamie Adams and making an improvised movie out of a loose premise; as a spectator, though, I don't necessarily believe that lends itself into a more natural, authentic or good story—The Holiday List was a mess, at no point in this movie can you affirm what any of these characters want, where they stand with neither themselves nor one another, where they're gonna go (they're all just miserable all the time); by the end, after the characters finally sprint themselves self into a wall, you can only feel like…

60/100 A pregnant refugee gets stuck in the middle of the ocean in a leaking shipping container. I'm not much of one for survival movies as they're all pretty much an exercise in human endurance and mental anguish against insurmountable odds, with one calamity after another, that tends to go on far longer than necessary. This one is no different and I watched it only because it was recommended to me. However, if you do like survival films, this one is pretty good. It was completely believable and Anna Castillo was fantastic hitting all the right notes. Not bad. -- DrNostromo.com…

I’m definitely more of a fan of the dogs in Muzzle 2. I just never really loved German Shepherds I feel like there are more Belgian Shepherds in 2? I haven’t looked it up but the main dog seems less pure G-shep than the intro dog. German Shepherds are way over-bred and it’s sad that they die young and with terrible hips. Maybe if they’re used less in movies, the breed will have a chance to chill a little and get its legs back. I suppose we can all be happy it’s not a film about bulldogs. What the fuck was with sniping a dog? In a film about the love of a man for a dog we should not hav…