REVIEW: “Passenger” (2026)

REVIEW: “Passenger” (2026)

“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

REVIEW: “Backrooms” (2026)

REVIEW: “Backrooms” (2026)

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

RETRO REVIEW: “Commando” (1985)

RETRO REVIEW: “Commando” (1985)

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