Dear Evan Hansen is rated PG-13 for swears, multiple conversations about suicide, depression, and mental illness in a forward and frank way. Call this “musical therapy” you weren’t ready for but needed.
Movie Review – ‘Martyrs Lane’ is a heartbreaking horror of a ghost story
Martyrs Lane (2021) is Unrated, but because it invoices children in precarious situations, I will call it a PG-13 and not for blood and gore, because there is nearly none, but for heartache and loss and the eternal sadness of a child.
Curtain Raiser – ‘The Guilty’ demands all eyes in Netflix Thriller
A troubled police detective demoted to 911 operator duty scrambles to save a distressed caller during a harrowing day of revelations — and reckoning, in The Guilty, in select theaters September 24, 2021, and on Netflix October 1, 2021
Movie Review – ‘Cinderella’ slips her way out of a fun musical
Cinderella joins the ranks of Cats, Annette, and a handful of other recent musical movie adaptations that are simply off-pitch.
Movie Review – ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ is a Marvel Twist to Asian Fight Cinema
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is rated PG-13 for mild swears, familial death, car crashes, high-speed bus chases, cage fighting, spider bats, and sou- sucking demons from another dimension.
Movie Review – ‘Lilith’ is all goth and no bite
Lilith: A Horror Anthology (2018) is unrated for swears, booze, weed smoking, suicide by hanging, people getting naked, people getting disemboweled, people getting dismembered, an orphaned penis (it’s a blink and you’ll miss it moment so be sure to rewind), and ham-handed “demonology”.
Movie Review – ‘Superhost’ makes your nightmare stay unforgettable
Superhost (2021) is unrated and my humble opinion would give it a Rating of R to people getting stalked, slashed, stabbed, and axed, and that general feeling you get when staying in vacation rentals where you feel you’re constantly being watched.
Movie Review – ‘As the Village Sleeps’ nodded off
As The Village Sleeps is Unrated and straight to VOD, but I’d give it a PG-13 for people getting drunk, people getting high, people getting dragged (like, a lot), a bear trap, a shooting, and someone getting run over with the vehicles everyone seems to forget they had.
Movie Review – ‘Eye Without a Face’ is a 21C Rear Window
Eye without a Face (2021) is Unrated and I’d likely give it a soft R for swears, sexytimes, alcohol use, drug use, voyeurism, implied cannibalism, stabbing, and slashing.
Movie Review – ‘Candyman’ refreshes the horror with our own modern bogeyman
Candyman (2021) is Rated R for lots of throats being cut, offscreen blood, tears, and screams, a suicide, people getting beaten, people getting shot, a necrotic bee sting, and a lot of subtle emotional trauma that punches you right in the brain stem.
Movie Review – ‘The Night House’ distills suicidal depression into tangible terror
The Night House (2021) is rated R for swears, nudity, lots of booze, disturbing images of corpses, blood, a gun, and off-screen violence against women.
Movie Review – ‘Reminiscence’ is a fever deam best forgotten
Reminiscence (2021) is Rated R for swears, sexytimes, people getting shot, people getting punched, people falling from great heights, people getting gut-stabbed, people taking drugs, eels nomming on ears, and lots and lots of water.