Reviews

James Wan returns to horror with the insane roller coaster ride of Malignant, which features gorgeous cinematography on top of an absolutely insane and brutally violent plot with one of the wildest third acts in recent horror memory.

Shang-Chi arrives in the MCU with a very fun origin story that gets a bit bogged down in flashbacks and exposition but features some fantastic martial arts action.

In 1979, an occultist gang harness the Necronomicon to unleash an evil terror strikes New York. Luckily, a portal appears to bring a modern-day deadites slayer Ash Williams for help. Now Ash must take on the mean streets of NYC and the undead punks that roam them.  

Summer is winding down but the gaming hasn’t slowed a bit. We squeezed the last bits of summer gaming as we checked out another batch of PC and console titles over the past month. We visited a cyberpunk future, redressed tackey clothing, fought as a blind warrior prince, protected our squadmates in WW2, and more! Our reviews are below for our August edition of the Gamebox.

Hugh Jackman stars in the new sci-fi noir from Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy as a man who sells a service that allows people to relive memories but he becomes obsessed with reliving his own memories to try and find the woman he loved after she disappears in Reminiscence.

After over a year of delay thanks to the pandemic, Free Guy finally arrived this past weekend in theaters (and only theaters) and it was worth the wait as it’s a surprisingly sweet but still action-packed and funny summer blockbuster.

From simple origins to horrifying conclusions, see how Ed Gein’s became an American murder in “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?”

James Gunn crosses the aisle to DC and brings the same sense of humor and heart he brought to Guardians of the Galaxy (and lots of ridiculous violence) for the excellent The Suicide Squad, which fixes everything about the mediocre first Suicide Squad movie by creating a better plot and more interesting and fun characters.

Two famed horror icons team up to stop a ghoulish apocalypse from live-streaming to everyone’s home in Elvira Meets Vincent Price #1.