
A ★★★ review of Popcorn (1991)
Progress- now all you have to worry about when you go to a movie theater is someone shooting it up. I do wish there was more popcorn. The D in Dee Wallace stands for fun!
I was happy to join Robert for another episode of
#CreepyAndGeeky, this time for his
#JohnCarpenter series. We had a blast talking about what was considered his "lost" TV film for a long time---"Someone's Watching Me!" from 1978.
#horrorfilms #nerdlyfe https://open.spotify.com/episode/7J2jCgBZ49ddb6TBI9iOGv?si=8342aaa9d95446e1
Someone's Watching Me with Ashley Thomas
Creepy and Geeky · Episode
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A ★★★½ review of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
Not quite the beat-by-beat redux of the first Ready or Not, but comes pretty close. Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton play well off each other despite their backstory feeling forced. Elijah Wood looks like he's having a lot of fun force feeding the audience necessary exposition. Radio Silence handles these scenes as well as you can as the info dumps rarely feel droning or tedious. If you're a fan of the first movie (I am) you don't mind seeing things retread as everything is bigger and bloodier. Set pieces are more elaborate, though you intuit the diminishing returns and miss

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – comedy horror sequel goes big and you should stay home
There’s even more screaming, running, swearing and exploding rich people in a follow-up to the 2019 sleeper hit that expands mythology we didn’t need expanded
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A ★★½ review of The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
A completely unneccesary sequel to one of the best horror movies of the aughties. Relies on the soap opera plot point of amnesia to a key character because otherwise there wouldn't be any movie. Fails on every level when compared to the Neil Marshall original. The cave sets look laughably cheap and the once terrifying cave creatures look like swap meet cosplay. Almost in apology, the viewer is bathed in gore. Shauna MacDonald's haunting performance in the original is replaced by a 90's one dimensional action heroine and even by horror movie standards there are implausibilities you can't gloss over.

Amy Madigan wins best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons
Having been nominated in 1986, the actor sets a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win
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Bodycam review – low-budget chiller oozes with supernatural menace
When a couple of cops turn up to a domestic violence call, things take a nasty turn as we see the mayhem unfold thanks to their body-worn cameras
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