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First Viewing Viewing Date: April 9th Via: Cinema Plot: We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word - SHAZAM. - this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into the grown-up superhero Shazam. Rating: 8.4/10

A total masterpiece, and a new manly classic

“"We have the skills and the right to acquire proper compensation."

The third feature film from writer-director S. Craig Zahler, 2018's Dragged Across Concrete is a new manly classic for the ages, further verifying the filmmaker's immense talents behind the camera. Zahler happily preserves ” read more

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 31st Via: iTunes Store Plot: A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary. Rating: 3.9/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 30th Via: Cinema Plot: A family's serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them. Rating: 6.2/10

Catapulting its way onto my Top 50 with absolute confidence, Brawl in Cell Block 99 is fucking incredible. It's completely engrossing, the work of a genuine auteur with a unique filmmaking voice, trumping the likes of Quentin Tarantino with just three films under his belt. Full review of this astonishing masterpiece here

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 24th Via: Amazon Prime Plot: Once two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation. Rating: 10/10 You can read my review here

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 22nd Via: iTunes Store Plot: A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 20th Via: Netflix Plot: A three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 17th Via: iTunes Store Plot: An intellectual billionaire and two lesser men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down. Rating: 7.7/10

A wholly compelling and affecting sequel

“"In the ring, you got rules. Outside, you got nothing. Life hits you with all these cheap shots. People like me, we live in the past. You got people that need you now. You got everything to lose, this guy has got nothing to lose."

An ostensibly shaky proposition, 2015's Creed eclipsed expe” read more

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 16th Via: Cinema Plot: Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Rating: 4.7/10 You can read my review here

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 13th Via: 4K Blu-ray Plot: A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: March 10th Via: 4K Blu-ray Plot: Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family. Rating: 6.7/10

A mediocre threequel, though not without merit

“Arriving thirteen years after its immediate predecessor, and eighteen years after the original Re-Animator, 2003's Beyond Re-Animator is the product of a completely different time. Instead of an old-fashioned B-movie permeated with campy '80s goodness, this third instalment in the Re-Animator franch” read more