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First Viewing Viewing Date: June 9th Via: Disney+ Plot: In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon and bring back her beloved father, who was turned to stone. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 9th Via: iTunes Store Plot: A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. Rating: 4.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 9th Via: Netflix Plot: As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom. Rating: 6.2/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 8th Via: Netflix Plot: A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope. Rating: 8.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 7th Via: Amazon Prime Plot: Dora, a teenage explorer, leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 7th Via: Amazon Prime Plot: A traumatised, agoraphobic criminal psychologist agrees to assist police in San Francisco to catch a serial killer who copies infamous serial killers from the past. Rating: 6.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 6th Via: Netflix Plot: On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old Lisa McVey is kidnapped and raped over a gruelling 26-hour ordeal. She manages to talk her abductor into releasing her, but nobody believes her story except for one detective, who suspects that she was abducted by a serial killer. Rating: 7.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 5th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. Rating: 8.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 4th Via: Stan. Plot: A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business. Rating: 7.9/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 4th Via: Cinema Plot: Demonologist Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate a murder that may be linked to a demonic possession. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 2nd Via: iTunes Store Plot: Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 2nd Via: iTunes Store Plot: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s, beginning a special bond that they both remember for the rest of their lives. Rating: 8.8/10

Heavenly God, what an insanely masculine, testosterone-packed motion picture this truly is. In fact, for the first time in history, I've retroactively gone back to change an annual manly movies list to incorporate this in the top spot; otherwise, I'd look like an ignorant fool. (Guns Akimbo was booted to make room, just for the record.) Shot on 16mm film, and produced to feel like a true grindhouse movie from the '70s or '80s (think Assault on Precinct 13), this is an old-fashioned masculine movie in every sense of the word: it's so violent that it feels illegal, there's drinking and smoking, and the movie centres on a bunch of old-school badasses. Indeed, this is something of an all-star cast: Stephen Lang, Martin Kove, Fred Williamson, William Sadler, David Patrick Kelly, and even fucking George Wendt who looks right at home sitting at a bar. These blokes talk like real men and sink piss non-stop, and what is manlier than men banding together to protect a female? As one of them explains, they were duty-bound to help. And for crying out loud, the men want to end the violent slaughter and get out of that situation to get to a titty bar. Even after some of their friends have died. I mean, I would sure want my friends to continue to a titty bar if I was struck down. Oh, and VFW contains surely the most over-the-top, spectacular main villain death since the 1980s. It must also be commended that VFW actually has a diverse cast, but such selections never feel forced or political. And when Lizard, the young lady, kills one of the drug addicts who are after them, it doesn't feel head-slappingly "woke"; it feels earned. VFW doesn't sideline the old dogs, but the young blood characters aren't useless. It's not perfect - some of the cinematography is way too shaky and dark, and I have issues with Kove's character, especially the events which lead to his demise - but the quibbles are minor. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie of this ilk that was executed so damn well. Gentlemen, this is a badass manly movie for the ages; an instant classic.

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 1st Via: iTunes Store Plot: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 1st Via: Criterion Channel Plot: A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom. Rating: 6.4/10