A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Chucks says: A vast improvement over the wildly overrated “Hereditary,” director Ari Aster gives us a slow-burn of a horror […]

Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. Chuck says: Superhero fatigue is definitely a factor here, as the film can’t shake the expected narrative beats of these sorts of movies with the third act a rote exercise of mass mayhem […]

While babysitting the daughter of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a teenager and her friend unknowingly awaken an evil spirit trapped in a doll. Chuck says: A worthy addition to the “Conjuring” universe, this is the best of the three “Annabelle” movies because it is an old school horror film that’s modest in scope, yet high […]

A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia’s perspective. Chuck says: While Shakespearean scholars may object to the liberties taken here, director Claire McCarthy and writer Semi Chellas provide a new perspective to “Hamlet” that manages to explore aspects of the play that were always present but overlooked. Telling the story from the perspective of Ophelia […]