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Review: Jessie Buckley Dominates An Audacious, Uneven ‘The Bride!’

March 5, 2026 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

A dead woman with blonde hair, wearing an orange dress pulled down to reveal a gold tanktop, with wires plugged into her chair

Credit to writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal: The Bride! is a big, bold unconventional Warner Brothers property.

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Filed Under: Film Reviews, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: Annette Bening, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, The Bride!, Warner Brothers

[Film Review] Queer Religious Horror ‘Diabolic’ Has A Messy Story and Great FX

February 19, 2026 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

A new queer horror film about the trauma experienced by someone who escaped from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS)? Yes please!

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Filed Under: Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: Daniel J. Phillips, diabolic, Elizabeth Cullen, John Kim, Mia Challis, Mike Harding, Queer Horror, Ticia Madsen

Film Review: ‘Anaconda’ (2025)

December 23, 2025 by Joe Lipsett

A large snake perches on a recoiling man's chest as he writhes away on the ground

The 2014 song “Anaconda” plays over the closing credits of the Sony reboot of the same name and the lyrics “My Anaconda don’t” seem particularly apt for this unfunny comedy horror.

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Filed Under: Film Reviews, Horror Film Reviews Tagged With: anaconda, ice cube, Jack Black, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Rudd, Selton Mello, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton

Blu Review: Beast of War (2025)

December 9, 2025 by Joe Lipsett

Shark movies are a dime a dozen, so when one comes around that actually works, it’s worth celebrating. That would be Aussie horror film Beast of War (2025), which despite a certain amount of narrative familiarity and tropey characters, still manages to impress, in large part because the shark in question is animatronic and it looks freaking amazing.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Reviews, Physical Media Reviews Tagged With: Joel Nankervis, Kiah Roache-Turner, Mark Coles Smith, Sam Delich, shark, well go usa

‘This Is Not A Test’ Review – Adam McDonald’s Zombie Film Is Stuck in the Past [TADFF]

October 20, 2025 by Joe Lipsett

Writer/director Adam McDonald is back with a new zombie film, This Is Not A Test (2025).

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Filed Under: Horror Film Festival Coverage, Horror Film Reviews, Toronto After Dark Tagged With: Adam McDonald, canadian horror, Carson McCormac, Chloe Avakian, Corteon Moore, Courtney Summers, froy gutierrez, Joelle Farrow, Luke Macfarlane, olivia hoult, zombie, Zombies

4K SteelBook Review: ‘Daybreakers’ (2009)

September 21, 2025 by Joe Lipsett

Unorthodox vampire film Daybreakers gets its day in the sun with a brand new 4K SteelBook release from Lionsgate.

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Filed Under: Horror Film Reviews, Physical Media Reviews Tagged With: Claudia Karvan, daybreakers, ethan hawke, Michael Dorman, Sam Neill, SteelBook, the Spierig Brothers, vampires, Willem Dafoe

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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Recent Posts

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