With a title like “Kraken” there’s not much left to the imagination. But hats off to director Pål Øie who fully embraces our expectations while both exceeding and subtly subverting them as well. In many ways the approach he takes is similar to his last film, the 2019 disaster thriller “The Tunnel”. Obviously with a … Continue reading
“Chum” may be the most hilariously obvious title for a movie you’ll see all year, especially when you consider it’s a sharksploitation movie. Mixing bloody horror with thriller elements, sharksploitation has quickly developed into a genre all its own. Unfortunately the quality of the films being churned out as of late makes you wonder how … Continue reading
I’ve been wildly curious about “The End of Oak Street” since its brief teaser dropped a couple of months back. Now Warner Bros. Pictures have released the first full trailer and I’m even more intrigued. This science-fiction survivor thriller comes from writer-director David Robert Mitchell, who gained a lot of attention for his 2014 horror … Continue reading
“Passenger” is the latest feature from Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal. It’s the follow-up to his criminally underrated 2023 film “The Last Voyage of the Demeter”, which was a narratively crafty and visually stunning adaptation of “The Captain’s Log”, a chapter from Bram Stoker’s 1987 classic novel “Dracula”. Without question, “Passenger” is a much different movie, … Continue reading
I’ve learned a lot since I started researching for this review. I learned there is something called “creepypasta” which are horror-centric urban legends or short stories created and then spread virally across the internet. Then I learned that the new film “Backrooms” was originally a YouTube anthological video series that was based on a creepypasta … Continue reading
On the front-end of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s near fifty-year acting career, after he had established himself in two Conan movies and took the world by storm in “The Terminator”, he released “Commando”. It was his first starring role (minus the docudrama “Pumping Iron”) that wasn’t science fiction or sword-and-sorcery. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t an … Continue reading
Keith & the Movies 