Writer: Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Tim Inman, Jimmy Carr, Patrick Carr
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe, Katherine Waterston, Emma Laird, Tom Goodman-Hill, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sue Johnston, Tom Felton, Damian Lewis
Synopsis: A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.
Review: We are all patiently awaiting Scary Movie 6 to come out next year. The news of the original creators and cast got us all quickly onboard. The last few years have also spoiled us with horror movies, so the Wayans brothers have a lot to work with.
This year, we were lucky enough with two parodies. Liam Niesen starred in a new Naked Gun and Fackham Hall entered theaters just at the end of the year.
Writer: Rebecca Sonnenshine Based on: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone, Elizabeth Perkins
Synopsis: A struggling young woman is relieved by the chance for a fresh start as a maid for a wealthy couple. Soon, she discovers that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.
Review: I went into The Housemaid not knowing anything about it. I knew it would be fun and have twists, but it exceeded my expectations. Seyfried is great at playing crazy. This also really allowed Sklenar to step in and play a different role, showing his range and depth. And, as always, Perkins plays the most insufferable person imaginable.
This movie is sexy, funny, and has some really good twists. I really like the direction that Paul Feig is going in with his last few movies. This movie has some similarities to A Simple Favor and Another Simple Favor, some of his most recently directed films, but is also very different.
The third act is pretty wild in this movie. There is violence, gore, twists and turns, and a really fun last scene.
Based on: Silent Night, Deadly Night by Michael Hickey and Paul Caimi
Cast: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, David Lawrence Brown, David Tomlinson, Mark Acheson
Synopsis: A child witnesses his parents’ murder by a man in a Santa suit. Years later, as an adult, he dons a Santa costume himself and embarks on a violent quest for retribution against those responsible for the traumatic event from his childhood.
Review: I am a big fan of Mike P. Nelson. He directed the 2021 reboot of Wrong Turn, which was one of my favorite movies that year. I was a massive fan of the whole franchise and looked forward to the new installment. It really took it in a different direction and I really enjoyed it.
He also wrote and directed the 2018 post-apocalyptic, horror film The Domestics. The movie is brutal and wild and features some great talent like horror icon David Dastmalchian and the late Lance Reddick.
Mike also had not one, but two shorts in the 2023 anthology, found-footage film, V/H/S/85. I believe he is the first and only to have two in one of the films.
I went into Silent Night, Deadly Night not knowing much. I haven’t seen the originals. I knew it would be a good holiday slasher and I really enjoyed Ruby Modine in Shameless and the Happy Death Day films.
A lot of this movie pays homage to the horror movies of the 80s. The camera work, the music, the campiness.
The trophy that the serial killer collects from their victims is just as disgusting as it is original and fun.
There are some really gory kills throughout the movie, including one all-out massacre that will, surprisingly, have you cheering in your seat.
The movie is like a mix of Dexter meets Venom meets Friday the 13th.
I really, really love how the movie ended and I hope we see more from it.
Go see it in theaters. Make it a new Christmas movie for the whole family. You will be surprised at how much you will be cheering throughout this slasher film!
Cast: Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, John Early, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Synopsis: In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
Cast: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum.
Synopsis: Now demonized as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba lives in exile in the Ozian forest, while Glinda resides at the palace in Emerald City, reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, she’ll need to reunite with Glinda to transform herself, and all of Oz, for good.
Cast: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
Synopsis: A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
Review: This movie was great. It’d like an action/comedy/sci-fi/buddy/adventure movie.
For the first time, you really feel for a Yautja. And you see them feel. What I like about Predator is that it’s a true
I love everything that Dan Trachtenberg and Fede Álvarez are doing with the Predator and Alien franchises. The writing is well done because we see a lot of character development in an alien in less than two hours. Elle Fanning is fantastic. And Trachtenberg really created a whole new world filled with a new language and new creatures.
Synopsis: Four years after the events of the first film, Finney Blake (Mason Thames) and his younger sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) are drawn into a chilling supernatural confrontation when Gwen begins having visions of murders from a remote Christian winter camp. The serial killer known as “The Grabber” (Ethan Hawke) returns — more powerful in death than in life — and the siblings must unravel a dark buried history at the camp, recover lost victims’ bodies beneath a frozen lake, and confront their own trauma in order to survive.
Writer: Jordan Weiss, Elyse Hollander, Mary Rodgers
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters
Synopsis: 22 years after Tessa and Ana endured an identity crisis, Ana now has a daughter and they seem to be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tessa and Ana discover that lightning might strike twice..
