★★★★☆ Dir. Zach Cregger Starring: Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis, Zach Cherry Runtime: 90 mins Let me lay my cards on the table before the purists sharpen their pitchforks: I have never played a Resident Evil video game. In fact, if we are talking about electronic gaming of any description, my experience essentially began and ended in arcades pumping coins into Space Invaders, or was it Asteroids? Beyond that, modern consoles might as well be particle accelerato

★★★★☆ Dir. Anthony Maras Starring: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina | Runtime: 114 mins Cinematic chronicles of the Normandy landings have almost exclusively fixed their gaze upon the churn of the English Channel and the blood-soaked dunes of Omaha Beach. From The Longest Day to Saving Private Ryan, our cultural memory of June 1944 is forged in cordite, artillery thunder, and kinetic horror. In Pressure, director Anthony Maras strips away the battlefi

★★★☆☆ Dir. Scott Waugh | Starring: Alan Ritchson, Owen Wilson, Rodrigo Santoro, Leila George | Runtime: 98 mins I went into Runner with rock-bottom expectations. On paper, Scott Waugh’s latest looked like a cookie-cutter direct-to-streaming cast-off: an improbable pairing of action-meathead and breezy comedian shoehorned into a cross-country dash against the clock. Yet, while it hardly rewrites the genre playbook, this oddball thriller manages to clear a low bar by sheer virt