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150 Word Review: 'Backrooms' (2026)
Is it important to know that Backrooms is based on a popular YouTube channel? No. That’s just a fun fact. Here’s another: Backrooms is one of the weirdest/most original genre movies in years. Director Kane Parsons’ existential journey into...
150 Word Review: 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' (2026)
Photo: Blumhouse
If this were John DeVore’s The Mummy, there’d be a lot more mummy. Which is what I want from a mummy movie, and so rarely get: a giant, shambling murder brute wrapped head-to-toe in bandages. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy did no...
150 Word Review: 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' (2026)
Photo: Disney Studios
The Mandalorian and Grogu (henceforth abbreviated to ManGu) is almost an experimental film by Star Wars standards, a blockbuster franchise that has always been a junk drawer of cultural odds and ends. This new install...
150 Word Review: 'Blue Heron' (2025)
Photo: Janus Films
Memories are alive. They whisper to us. And sometimes lie. Blue Heron is director/writer Sophy Romvari’s debut, an entrancing semi-autobiographical drama about a blended immigrant family moving from Hungary to Vancouver...
150 Word Review: 'The Ox-Bow Incident' (1943)
Photo: 20th Century Fox
This is a surprisingly grim and ugly western, which is also the reason it’s one of the genre’s best. Henry Fonda plays a cowboy who just wants a drink in a small, podunk town. His old flame lives there, too, or use...
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