Gore Verbinski’s latest movie turns out to be an imaginative, funny, and surprisingly affecting sci-fi adventure.
Author: Tony Kay
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ups the chills and the gore
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ( 2026 | United Kingdom | 109 minutes | Nia DaCosta) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple …
Tony’s (very belated list of) Favorite Films of 2025
As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
Black Phone 2 rings true…some of the time
Black Phone 2 (2025 | USA | 114 minutes | Scott Derrickson) The Black Phone, writer/director Scott Derrickson’s thriller about a young …
Is it Worth it to Pay Attention to Him?
Him (2025 | USA | 96 minutes | Justin Tipping) Not to mix sports metaphors, but if nothing else Him, the feature …
M3GAN 2.0 trades scares for silliness, to (mostly) good effect
Kudos to recent horror franchises for changing stuff up. 28 Years Later expanded its siege-horror foundation by steering it into the realm of post-apocalyptic dark fairy tale. M3gan 2.0, by contrast, doesn’t so much radically depart from its predecessor as significantly shift the emphasis of the genres it combines.
28 Years Later ups the scale and the heart–and it’s scary, too
Spoiler alert (not): 28 Years Later, the second sequel to director Danny Boyle’s influential 2002 shocker 28 Days Later, could hardly be better. And unlike 28 Weeks Later, the rather meh second film of the franchise, this new entry serves up something deeply emotional, stunningly ambitious, seriously creepy, decidedly distinctive from its predecessor(s), and exhilaratingly suspenseful.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Color Book, New Jack Fury, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
One SIFFter’s coverage of most of his SIFF 2025 views.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: The Glass Web
This rainy city has always felt like a perfect Ground Zero for film noir, and Seattle’s been packing Noir Czar Eddie Muller’s touring Noir City film festival for years.
So it’s no surprise a noir did surface during the Festival. Kudos to SIFF, however, for getting their mitts on a genuine film noir curiosity (in 3D, no less) that also happens to kinda rule.
Final Destination: Bloodlines does the reboot thing right
No one would likely accuse the Final Destination horror franchise of being high art, but all five previous entries in the series deliver their respective thrills consistently.