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Send Help, Sam Raimi's corporate satire is a bloody, beautiful return to form
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Author: Denise Breen There is a specific, visceral joy in watching a Sam Raimi movie that feels like a Sam Raimi movie. After a decade largely spent playing in the sandboxes of Marvel and Disney, the director has finally returned to the scrappy, mean-spirited, and splatstick roots that made Evil Dead II and Drag Me to Hell genre touchstones. His latest offering, Send Help (2026), is not a perfect film—it is occasionally shaggy, tonally schizophrenic, and

Denise Breen
4 hours ago4 min read


The Art of the Dull: Melania is a Masterclass in Vacuity
Rating: 0/5 Written by Denise Breen Runtime: 104 minutes (feels like 104 years) I watched Melania to see if it's as bad as you might think and, it's worse. To call Melania a film is an insult to celluloid. To call it a documentary is an insult to journalism. To call it "reality TV" is an insult to the narrative cohesion of The Real Housewives. Released into US cinemas and on some streaming platforms with the pomp of a coronation and the soul of a press release, Amazon MGM’s $

Denise Breen
Jan 312 min read


28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is weird, but Ralph Fiennes is a legend
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Written by Denise Breen Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a strange, claustrophobic beast. Serving as the second installment in the new trilogy (and the fourth film in the franchise overall), it abandons the sweeping, road-movie scope of last year's 28 Years Later for something far more theatrical, static, and arguably, bizarre. While it boasts a mesmerizing central performance by Ralph Fiennes, the film suffers from tonal whiplash that makes it a

Denise Breen
Jan 183 min read
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