Atrocity

The complicated and incredibly complex contracts between studios and streaming services will take years to resolve, leaving some high-profile titles absent from the streaming service that owns the company behind the movies or TV shows. Things are slowly returning to normal, but the fact Morbius hasn’t been announced for Disney Plus is nothing short of criminal. Sony is the only one of the “Big Five” Hollywood studios that doesn’t own or operate its streaming service, but seeing as the Mouse House is in charge of…

via Universal It’s hard to get mad at any movie that features Arnold Schwarzenegger getting the ever-loving sh*t kicked out of him by Miriam Margoyles, but one standout – and unintentionally hilarious – scene isn’t enough to earn End of Days a rose-tinted reappraisal. It was a decent-sized hit at the box office after earning a robust $212 million on a budget of $100 million, but a trio of Razzie nominations for Worst Actor, Worst Director, and Worst Supporting Actor were fully deserved. Perhaps the biggest…

Co-directed with historian Adrian Cioflâncã, this exhaustive and harrowing documentary from Radu Jude revisits a heinous chapter in Romanian history: the Iași pogrom, which over the course of a few days in the summer of 1941 saw the massacre of more than 13,000 Jewish civilians. At nearly three hours long, this challenging film demands patience, attention, and even courage from its viewers.Deliberately avoiding emotionally manipulative tactics, much of the film unfolds like an archival collage. Photos of the victims are…

via 20th Century Fox If there was an award to be given out for the most consistently inconsistent franchise in the history of cinema, then Predator would be a very strong contender to lift the trophy. We’ve seen the good, the bad, and the very ugly from the sci-fi saga over the last 35 years, but it’s hard to imagine anything worse than Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem emerging from the rubble. It was a bold call for sibling directorial duo The Brothers Strause to tackle the sequel to a crossover that also acted as…