It is hard to imaging screwing up this plot: urban explorers break into a hotel with a long scary history, confront evil, and have to escape. But the MillennialMovie™ managed to make it boring.
6 CommentsMayday: Air Disaster (2026)
The corporate homsars got ahold of this one, so it has different names like “Air Crash Investigators” outside the JCSA, but this is a collaboration between Canadian filmmakers, the Smithsonian, and National Geographic that takes a Forensic Files approach to technical failures in aviation.
21 CommentsTags: cinema, forensic files, mayday: air disaster, television
Citizen Vigilante (2026)
At some point, one is tempted by the hype, and has to check out the latest train-wreck from the movie industry. In this case, it is Citizen Vigilante, a Deathwish-style “delayed justice” flick.
46 CommentsKilling Grounds: The Gilgo Beach Murders (2026)
This four-part documentary manages to convey a few things, one being that the suspect (who has since pleaded guilty) is nuts, and second that most of the people involved with publicizing the case are nuts.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, documentary, rex heuermann, serial killers
Watch the Skies (2025)
For a movie that preserves the 2010s type of speculative sci-fi in a 1980s story arc, Watch the Skies delivers quirky Swedish weirdness in a story that makes sense without being saccharine.
10 CommentsApocalypse Now (1979)
Very few movies manage to be relevant, or to show us something about life that makes us want to re-engage from our comfortable armchair debt servitude, and very few do it so insightfully and elegantly that they might be “classics,” but this film surely qualifies.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, francis ford coppola, john milius, joseph conrad, t.s. eliot
Runaway (1984)
As AI and automation rise into mass consciousness, it is worth revisiting this Michael Crichton film from 1984 which points out that if a tool is made universal, it will also be hacked by some dark actors.
7 CommentsTags: AI, cinema, michael crichton, runaway, tom selleck
Realm of Satan (2024)
Imagine an entire documentary dedicated to trolling its audience into considering that human drama is trivial, through the assertion of quirky human drama, in the context of a dark lord who exemplifies what terrifies normies.
18 CommentsGhosts of Mars (2001)
Some may know this movie because Anthrax collaborated on the soundtrack, but it deserves mention for holding its own not only as part of the John Carpenter oeuvre but in recognition of its difficult mixture of science fiction, mindless action, and absurdist comedy.
62 CommentsTags: cinema, ice cube, jason statham, john carpenter, natasha henstridge
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Gore, horror, and revenge cinema converge on a single idea: the ability of the normal protagonist to snap out of the sleepwalk of civilization, recognize a problem beyond which socially-mediated language can address, and overcome moral qualms in order to address it with absolute certainty. Rambo: Last Blood comes straight from the middle of this genre.
3 CommentsTags: cinema, rambo, sylvester stallone
