In the new film “The Deputy”, Toby Sawyer doesn’t leave the most flattering first impression. He comes off as a hapless irresponsible deadbeat, plagued by selfish ambition and poor judgement. Toby has big dreams of becoming a full-time sheriff’s deputy. So much so that he accepts a low-paying part-time job at the Norman County Sheriff’s … Continue reading
Ken Carter was a Canadian stunt driver who earned his nickname “The Mad Canadian”. Born in Montreal and raised in a working class neighborhood, Carter would eventually drop out of school and hit the road with a team of travelling daredevils. He performed numerous car stunts with the group before taking off on his own … Continue reading
Neon’s “Paper Tiger” has quickly ascended up my list of most anticipated movies still coming this year. The period crime-drama comes from writer-director James Gray who won me over with his spectacular “Ad Astra” and his woefully underrated “The Lost City of Z”. Now he’s transporting us to 1980s Queens for a film about a … Continue reading
Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is bringing their gruesomely entertaining chiller “Evil Dead Burn” to home video. This is the sixth feature film installment in the popular Evil Dead franchise that began in 1981 with Sam Raimi’s original horror classic. Lee Cronin jumpstarted the series in 2023 with “Evil Dead Rise”. And earlier this year … Continue reading
It was seven years ago that filmmaker Quentin Tarantino gifted us with what I still consider to be his best film. I’m talking about “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, a movie brimming with memorable moments and memorable characters. One of the characters who stood out the most was Cliff Booth, Brad Pitt’s charming but … Continue reading
Following the wide-ranging success of his highly acclaimed “Weapons”, writer-director Zach Cregger stays in the genre he knows best with his latest feature, “Resident Evil”. Yes, the long-running and wildly popular survival horror video game series that began all the way back in 1996. Cregger plucks a few things from the chilling and twisted franchise … Continue reading
