Mortal Kombat II (2026) Film Review

The fan favorite champions — now joined by Johnny Cage himself — are pitted against one another in the ultimate battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.

Mortal Kombat II is directed by Simon McQuoid director of Mortal Kombat (2021). The film serves as a sequel to Mortal Kombat (2021) and is the fourth installment in the Mortal Kombat film series.

Mortal Kombat (2021) is one of those movies where I really liked it at the time it was released, but slowly it got worse and worse for me. I can definitely still say that I enjoy it, but there were definitely glaring issues that could easily be fixed. Luckily Mortal Kombat II gives some answers to those issues, while it is not perfect and definitely has room for improvement. I do think Mortal Kombat II sets out to capture a lot of the spirit of the video game franchise and does quite a great job at doing so, which leads to a pretty fun time that any fan will be satisfied with.

For starters a main criticism with the previous movie was the very odd choice to make the focus on Cole Young, a character who was made entirely from the movie. Well this movie fixes that by not having him as the focus (he’s still in the movie but now as a side character), the focus now is Johnny Cage played by Karl Urban who really knocks it out of the park. The moment Urban appears on screen you can just feel how much he captures Johnny Cage as a character, his reactions to the ridiculous nonsense that is going on actually got a few laughs out of me. Plus I think making Cage the focus was a very clever move, he’s basically an audience surrogate which means we basically go on this journey with him. It adds a little bit more of a connection between the viewer and the film, I know that might sound a bit silly to say about a Mortal Kombat movie but it strangely works.

The rest of the characters are quite great here as well, Kitana, Sonya Blade, Kano, Liu Kang, Jax, Jade, Shang Tsung, Lord Raiden and many others appear. Josh Lawson who was arguably the best part of the previous film returns as Kano and is just as effective and hilarious. Adeline Rudolph as Kitana and Tati Gabrielle as Jade are newcomers who do a great job in their respective roles. I do like the film also focusing on Kitana as well even if the character writing is not absolutely perfect, there is at least understanding of what makes these characters such as Kitana interesting to the viewer. The cast overall does a really solid job here and easily made this such an entertaining ride.

The nonstop action scenes are also quite fantastic, this time around the film is very self aware as it does make little references to modern action films and the things that fans expect mainly the whole John Wick type of action (stabbing so many people brutally with a pencil.) Which the film actually delivers on these references and manages to make them funny. The film is luckily not so self aware to the point where it becomes obnoxious and where it refuses to have fun with itself, it’s just the right amount to really draw in the viewer due to the thought of “where is it going with this?”

As far as story goes, this is very standard Mortal Kombat and that’s no where near a bad thing. If anything the film benefits from this, the film knows exactly what it wants to be and does not pretend it’s something else. It’s a film that wants to entertain the viewer throughout the experience and it mostly succeeds in the end due to just how fast paced it really is along with the cast and atmosphere.

Overall Mortal Kombat II is a much needed improvement from the previous film, there was definitely a lot more determination to really capture the spirit of the video game franchise and the end result is quite a fun time!

Mortal Kombat II is available on all VOD platforms.

7/10 B

Pressure (2026) Film Review

In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice–launch the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

Pressure is directed by Anthony Maras director of Hotel Mumbai (2018).

Pressure on the surface may seem like a textbook telling of D-Day, however the film goes for a different approach. It talks about the weather and how to plan the Normandy landings during World War II. Somehow and someway they made this actually quite thrilling which leads to plenty of excellent moments over the course of the film.

Andrew Scott as James Stagg gives a very investing performance, he is the center of the film and luckily Scott is very versatile as an actor. He can go from more quieter moments to more louder ones in an instant, Chris Messina as Irving P. Krick is also just as great here especially during the disagreements between Kirk and Stagg. You have these moments where they are arguing over the weather and it actually becomes quite thrilling, which is mainly due to how committed Scott and Kirk were to their performances.

Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower was quite great, there are definitely criticisms to be made about how Fraser and Eisenhower look quite drastically different. Despite this however, Fraser really nails his performance as he lands tons of explosive moments along with more quiet ones. There’s a few moments in particular towards the end where his performance goes from being great to actually pretty excellent.

What mainly helps Pressure here is the different perspective, we don’t see much of the battle and instead we are placed in meetings regarding the best course of action with the weather. Which is actually quite thrilling due to the film’s strong atmosphere that is thanks to director Anthony Maras’s experience with his previous film Hotel Mumbai (2018). Stagg’s weather forecasts were essential to green light the go ahead for the D-Day Invasion and the film does a great job of capturing these actions incredibly well, at times it can feel like reading out of a textbook. But I think for the most part the film accomplishes what it’s sent out to do and mainly sticks to offering a much different perspective from the usual war movie.

Overall Pressure is a quite solid war movie that offers a different perspective, a lot of what you see is what you get here so there really is not that much to it. Despite that however it’s still a very solid film that I recommend giving a go.

Pressure is available on all VOD platforms.

7/10 B

Voicemails For Isabelle (2026) Film Review

Jill leaves voice messages to her deceased sister telling her about her chaotic life in San Francisco. Unwittingly, a mysterious Austin TX real estate agent begins to receive their confessions..

Voicemails For Isabelle is directed by Leah McKendrick director of Scrambled (2023).

Every once in a while you get a Netflix romantic comedy that surprises you due to how solid it really is. Voicemails For Isabelle is one of those films, it definitely has its flaws and some usual genre cliches. However you can’t help but fall in love with this one simply due to its charm, performances and a few note worthy scenes that really tie the whole thing together.

The performances here are all pretty solid, Zoey Deutch continues to find her home in the romantic comedy genre, Ciara Bravo’s performance is filled with emotional depth and Nick Robinson is just fantastic. It’s great to see Robinson in a leading role after so long because the wait was well worth it. The cast do such a great job of balancing the film’s humor and the more dramatic moments as well.

Right from the start this film comes out swinging with one of the best uses of Robin’s song “Dancing On My Own”, it’s very much an Up (2009) style beginning but it’s effective and works beautifully. The film also ends with “Dancing On My Own” that scene in particular made me tear up, the film’s build up was well worth it and really completes the journey that Jill Shaw has experienced.

As for the rest of the film? It’s quite great, as I said there are definitely some genre cliches that get a bit in the way of the experience. But I do think for the most part the character writing is handled quite well, the whole theme of love between sisters is beautifully done and told in a quite raw way. What really helps the film in the long run is the strong chemistry the cast has between one another, it makes the film far more real and pop out a bit more.

Overall Voicemails For Isabelle is one of the better Netflix romantic comedy films in recent memory, it has its flaws but it makes up for them with some strong act, great writing and beautiful moments.

Voicemails For Isabelle is available on Netflix.

7/10 B

Westhampton (2026) Film Review

Haunted by an accident he caused in high school, a filmmaker is drawn back to his hometown where he is confronted by former friends and a community that disdains him as he tries to find peace with the hurt he left behind.

Westhampton is directed by Christian Nilsson director of Dashcam (2021).

Westhampton is a film about trying to confront your past even if it’s very hard to face and trying to find peace with the pain you might have left behind. This is a very interesting film that develops its themes and characters quite well, it’s a bit slow paced in some areas but that isn’t enough to take away how well executed the film really is.

Finn Wittrock gives a strong performance as Tom, as the film goes on we slowly learn more and more about why Tom’s friends and even community don’t like him. There is this interesting element of Tom being a filmmaker where he made an autobiographical film of the accident, throughout the film we constantly switch between present day scenes and scenes from the autobiographical film. It gives Tom such a compelling journey for the viewer to follow, there is one particular moment that really sticks with the viewer through the credits.

The theme of confrontation is incredibly strong here and really moves the film in ways you would not really expect, it’s backed by quite strong writing that brings the previously mentioned switching between present day and autobiographical film element front and center. The autobiographical film has Tom’s interpretation of what happened, while in the present day we hear what his friends say what happened. It adds this complex layer to everything that the film slowly but surely reveals.

The nuanced performance from Finn Wittrock combined with film’s genuinely compelling storytelling is what really makes the film, the character writing is very raw and shows these very real moments between friends and their thoughts about the accident. The rest of the cast do such an excellent job here and truly give the film’s world that much more realism and personality.

I won’t say anything else about Westhampton as I do think you need to go into this one knowing as little as possible, but I do highly recommend this one as it is quite an impressive movie that really brings the viewer on Tom’s journey in meaningful ways.

Westhampton is currently in theaters.

7/10 B

Supergirl (2026) Film Review

Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home.

Supergirl is directed by Craig Gillespie director of Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Fright Night (2011), I, Tonya (2017), Cruella (2021), Dumb Money (2022) and a few others. The film serves as the second film in the DC Universe.

Supergirl is a perfectly fine superhero movie and that’s really all there is to it and that’s not a bad thing at all. For the most part Supergirl gets the job done of what it’s sent out to do, it is incredibly flawed but I do think there is just enough here to push it over the finish line.

Milly Alcock is what is mainly carrying this movie, she gives such an excellent performance as Kara and gives some edge to the character which really works. She also captures Kara as a character incredibly well, which does make the movie all the more frustrating when it goes for very safe territory. Her interactions with the rest of the cast are entertaining and unlike a lot of the movie, she never holds back which brings plenty of great moments. The flashbacks that explore Kara’s past are some of the strongest moments especially when you mix it in with Alcock’s acting.

Jason Momoa as Lobo provides the movie with some extra firepower, Momoa brings chaos and a whole lot of fun to the table. Which is a breath of fresh air seeing how some of the action scenes can quickly become a bit of the same thing, the one-liners are even quite decent (which is interesting because the dialogue in this movie isn’t great, usually the one-liners are the negative while the dialogue is the positive in movies like these…that’s different!) Momoa captures Lobo as a character quite well, even though he pops up every now and then. You can still feel his presence and when he does show up it’s admittedly always exciting.

The main issue holding Supergirl back is the writing, while there are some very strong moments such as the previously mentioned flashback scenes that when combined with the movie’s score (the score had a lot of issues during the post-production stages with switching through many composers, but all things considered it turned out pretty alright. I cannot say the same for the needle drops though.) Plus Alcock and Momoa are able to somewhat elevate the material, however the writing falters when it comes to its own ideas. The trafficking part in particular left a lot more to be desired, I get what the movie was trying to go for here and yes it’s a very heavy topic, however the execution is very lackluster and almost feels like an afterthought in a lot of ways.

It really does not help when you have an incredibly forgettable villain, Krem of the Yellow Hills is a very one note villain who feels less like a leader and more like a Dragon Ball Z movie henchmen or a typical villain henchmen that is ranked more highly than others. Matthias Schoenaerts tries his best with what he is given but it’s ultimately not enough to make the character compelling.

Finally there is Craig Gillespie’s direction, which while he is an excellent director who has shown he can deliver. It shows here that Gillespie was the wrong person for the job, the script from Ana Nogueira and the direction from Craig Gillespie are showing two very different things and they are just not agreeing with each other at all. Nogueira’s script has the trafficking subject matter and the mixed dialogue, Gillespie’s direction seems to want to focus on this very traditional action movie (with not very good special effects), the two just do not mesh well at all unfortunately which leads into a bit of a mess.

Despite my issues with Supergirl, I do think it’s a fun enough movie that barely crosses the finish line. It really should be stressed on how much Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa really save this movie, because without them the movie would not be anywhere near as fun.

Supergirl releases July 28th on all VOD platforms.

6/10 C+

Quick Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Andy Sachs reunites with Miranda Priestly as they navigate their careers amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is directed by David Frankel director of The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Collateral Beauty (2016), Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) and a few others. The film serves as a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

I actually really do not have a whole lot to say here about The Devil Wears Prada 2, it’s a decent movie for what it is and I do think it does the whole legacy sequel formula a lot better than some other franchises have been doing lately.

The cast is what are bringing this movie together, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are all fantastic here and bring just as much passion and strength as they did with the first movie. The performances are about what you expect but you can’t help but smile and have this great feeling of familiarity, seeing the four characters together again is truly fantastic and really reminds you of why they worked so well together in the first place.

The first 40 minutes or so is the typical legacy sequel style of film, but afterwards things get a bit more interesting. There’s a discussion of certain industries struggling to adapt to the shift of the modern world, particularly ones that flat out refuse to change due to various reasons. Although the movie does not really go enough into these ideas, what the movie does explore isn’t too bad.

Overall The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a fun enough sequel, it definitely tends to be a bit similar to the first movie quite often. However I do think it has its place and in some areas captures what made the first film a lot of fun and so recognizable.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is available on all VOD platforms.

6/10 C+

Quick Reviews: Find Your Friends and Saccharine (2026)

Amber and her friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun girls’ trip but face hostility from locals. As tensions escalate and Amber’s dark past surfaces, their rebellion ignites – turning their desert getaway into a jaw-dropping game of revenge.

Find Your Friends is directed by Izabel Pakzad which is her directorial debut.

Find Your Friends is a movie that explores a quite heavy subject which is the dark side of party culture and how truly dangerous it can be under all of the lights, energy and music. The major problem here is the movie opts for a ton of terrible writing decisions that completely take the viewer out of the movie, it ends up being a very confused mess of what it is exactly trying to lay down to the viewer.

Helena Howard tries her best to hold the movie together, but the rest of the performances are just not great here at all. Bella Thorne, Zión Moreno, Chloe Cherry and Sophia Ali have little to work with for their characters. There’s times where it’s just a screaming match or who can say the most edgiest thing in the room, the character building just does not happen here at all.

While watching Find Your Friends, I could not help but think of a far better film that tackled the exact same subject matter and that’s Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex (2023). A film that takes its time building its characters and goes for a much more grounded approach with exploring the unpleasant side of party culture, it’s a film that was confidently directed and went into detail on the topic.

Find Your Friends makes the mistake of going for a much more unnatural direction when we are introduced to the movie’s antagonists who are incredibly one dimensionally evil. I get there are some people out there that are evil for the sake of it, but the way this is executed combined with the terrible script does not do the movie any sort of favors.

It’s frustrating because there is a good movie here, it’s just piled on by so much bad writing, mediocre acting and a direction that feels very confused.

Find Your Friends is available on Shudder.

3/10 D-

Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.

Saccharine is directed by Natalie Erika James director of Relic (2020) and Apartment 7A (2024).

Unfortunately not a whole lot to comment on here, while Saccharine is a step up from Natalie Erika James’s last movie Apartment 7A (2024), it still does not come close to Relic (2020).

The movie starts out strong enough, we see that the movie is attempting to explore diet culture and extremes women go through to be fit as well as a lot of expectations. Midori Francis gives a solid performance that does help convey the struggles of her character Hana.

Unfortunately around the ending of the second act is when this movie’s message gets lost and a lot of different ideas are just lazily thrown at a wall. Supernatural horror elements are thrown in, the script from Natalie Erika James seems to not know where to exactly take itself and the movie’s 113 minute runtime especially kills it due to the slow pacing.

There are definitely some nasty and gross body horror elements that are decently effective, but it unfortunately is not quite enough to save the movie. It’s clear that Saccharine wanted to tackle many different topics regarding diet culture, but it fails to execute these ideas in any meaningful or interesting way that gets the viewer’s attention.

Saccharine is available on all VOD platforms.

5/10 C

Quick Reviews: Enola Holmes 3, The Hand Of Dante and Office Romance (2026)

Detective Enola Holmes heads to Malta, where her aspirations merge in her most complex and dangerous case yet.

Enola Holmes 3 is directed by Philip Barantini director of Villain (2020), Boiling Point (2021) and Accused (2023). The film serves as a sequel to Enola Holmes 2 (2022).

I’m not going to write an extensively long piece about the Enola Holmes series and my experience with it, because honestly the first two movies were cute movies that had their charm and that is really about as deep as it goes. Enola Holmes 3 shows that this series has overstayed its welcome and it might be time to move onto something else.

Millie Bobby Brown does a fine enough job here, but the spark she had in the first two movies is very noticeably absent. The performance just does not land as it did previously, Henry Cavill takes a backseat for a large portion of the movie and much like Brown, his performance has gotten noticeably worse as well. Which this is a bit of a shame because I did find Brown and Cavill decently charming in the previous two movies.

To say I was shocked that Barantini directed this would be an understatement, coming off of last year’s highly successful and acclaimed series Adolescence to this is quite baffling. The direction here is incredibly poor and has no idea what it wants to say or focus on, when you mix this in with the script from Jack Thorne you lead to some very underwhelming results.

The theme this movie attempts to tackle is British colonial history which for a movie series that prides itself on talk about important subjects, the movie does a quite poor job of exploring the subject. It makes surface level observations such as “look guys this was really bad” which is quite honestly embarrassing, it truly does feel like studio executives patting themselves on the back for being performative. It can very well be argued that the previous two movies are just as guilty of this (and I would agree with you), but at the very least they were competent movies that had good things about them. With this movie you do not get that at all and the studio executives feel is a lot more blatant here.

Overall Enola Holmes 3 is quite easily the worst of the series and it’s really not even close. It adds nothing new to the series and only brings the series backwards.

Enola Holmes 3 is available on Netflix.

3/10 D-

A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s poem “The Divine Comedy” makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he’s asked to verify its authenticity.

In The Hand Of Dante is directed by Julian Schnabel director of Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Miral (2010) and At Eternity’s Gate (2018).

In The Hand Of Dante is a prime example of movie that the only question going through your mind is “how on earth did this happen?” I’m going to keep this short simply because this is one of those terrible movies where it’s not even bad in an interesting way. It is a pretentious mess that thinks so highly of itself yet its saying very little with incredibly poor acting.

Martin Scorsese is the best part about this movie and not even him being dressed up as a Gandalf and Dumbledore hybrid could save this mess (he only has a couple of scenes as well, keep in mind this movie is 2 hours and 33 minutes long.) Scorsese seems to be the only one who is able to give a somewhat decent performance, it’s not terrible and it is almost certainly not something that belongs in the looney bin like some of these other performances.

If you want to hear one of the worst Italian accents ever put to film like no further than Gal Gadot. It’s truly baffling how not a single person on set questioned this, she has no chemistry with Oscar Isaac and the movie trying to build her character does not work at the slightest. Jason Momoa and Gerard Butler feel like cartoon characters trying to copy the behaviors of humans (some of these scenes go on for so long it becomes awkward.) Oscar Isaac does not necessarily give a bad performance it’s just one that is so forgettable and feels like a whole lot of nothing.

Lastly the movie trying to capture the whole Classic Hollywood noir of the 1940s and 1950s is embarrassing. The atmosphere that made those films so great is just not present at all here nor is the thrills. There are some admittedly beautiful locations but that’s where it really ends, the movie’s mystery is confused and does not offer any sort of strong connection with the characters or its themes. It’s a complete and total mess that can only be described as a science fair project that was done the day before it was due.

Overall, In The Hand Of Dante is a disaster of a movie that is truly baffling to watch. This is one of the most bafflingly bad movies I’ve seen in quite some time.

In The Hand Of Dante is available on Netflix.

1/10 F

Jackie, President and CEO of Air Cruz, runs a tight ship in her business, including a rigid anti-fraternization policy for all her employees, which is severely tested when a sexy new lawyer begins working for her.

Office Romance is directed by Ol Parker (or Oliver Parker) director of Imagine Me & You (2005), Now Is Good (2012), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and Ticket to Paradise (2022).

Office Romance does not have a whole lot going on here with the exception of the birthing scene that seemingly comes out of nowhere. It’s clearly only here for shock value and that’s really about as deep as it goes. Everything else about this movie is incredibly bare bones romantic comedy cliches.

Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein and Betty Gilpin give fine enough performances, but none of them are quite enough to save the movie from being a chore to sit through. They each get one or two moments to shine, but really that’s where it ends.

The movie heavily relies on its cast to do all of the heavy lifting and carry the movie to the finish line, but completely forgets that you need a good script to help give the cast something to work with and that is just not present here at all.

Office Romance is available on Netflix.

3/10 D-

Lighting Round Reviews: Passenger, Deep Water and Hungry!

After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger won’t stop until it claims them both.

Passenger is directed by André Øvredal director of Trollhunter (2010), The Autopsy Of Jane Doe (2016), Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark (2019), Mortal (2020) and The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023).

I really wish there was more to say about Passenger, I typically love Øvredal’s work and even with some of his weaker films I do appreciate with what was attempted. I cannot say the same about Passenger, this is one of those cases where you ask yourself “what happened here?”

The cast does the best they can, Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell at least have decent chemistry between one another and they are both given some moments to shine. Joseph Lopez as The Passenger is pretty solid as well, he manages to bring a thrilling atmosphere to the table that the writing failed to bring to the table.

The cinematography is by far the best part of the movie which makes it all the more frustrating when the writing completely does not match the visuals or atmosphere at all. Cinematographer Federico Verardi does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to what the movie is trying to communicate, his work with the camera is able to blend in with the different locations of the film and capture the whole idea of the eeriness of highways during the night.

What completely destroys this movie is the writing, it starts out decently strong with the opening scene (scene from the trailer) but quickly falls into a forgettable and lackluster mess. There just is not anything that stands out here, which is frustrating because it has the right ingredients to really create something thrilling and engaging for the viewer. But unfortunately the movie opts to go for being more on the cliched side of things. The characters have very little development and the direction from Øvredal feels surprisingly underwhelming, a lot of the heavy and confident feel of his previous work is just not here at all.

Overall Passenger is an incredibly forgettable movie that you basically put in the back of your brain after viewing. I would not say it’s a terrible movie, but in a year that so far has been quite great for the horror genre. This is almost certainly not one of them.

Passenger is available on all VOD platforms.

5/10 C

A group of international passengers en route from Los Angeles to Shanghai are forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. Now they must work together in hopes to overcome the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.

Deep Water is directed by Renny Harlin director of The Strangers trilogy (2024-2026), A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), Deep Blue Sea (1999) and many others.

Renny Harlin is back yet again with another terrible movie, who is surprised? Although to Harlin’s credit, Deep Water is not AS bad as a lot of his more recent movies. However that most certainly does not make it good and there really is just not a whole lot to discuss here in the end.

The acting ranges from terrible to fine enough, out of the cast, Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley and Lucy Barrett are the ones who at the very least squeezed some decent moments out of this movie. Eckhart is actually somewhat trying here which is a bit of surprise given his latest performances and Penny (played by Lucy Barrett) is one of the only likable characters of the movie so it’s a bit of a shame to see her go early on. Ben Kingsley unfortunately isn’t in the movie for very long, he gives by far the best performance of the movie as his scenes with Eckhart are decently fun.

The main issue with this movie is it could have been a fun shark b-movie but it takes itself WAY TOO seriously, the direction the movie goes is focusing way less on the shark and focusing a lot more on the characters who don’t have any sort of strong writing to back them up. A majority of them are incredibly unlikable and not in the interesting kind of way, the “redemption arcs” are incredibly corny the only reason being there is for the viewer to suddenly care these characters who you have only seen for about 10-20 minutes.

It’s a shame because there are parts of this movie that are decent enough, the plane crash was surprisingly decently directed. You could actually feel some sort of tension in the air and ask yourself “who’s going to survive and who isn’t.” Unfortunately all of that goes away the moment the plane crashes and we are stuck with a very bland shark movie that just does not have a whole lot going for it.

Overall Deep Water is incredibly forgettable, there is some fun to be had here with some unintentional hilarious moments and the thrilling plane crash. But that’s really about it.

Deep Water is available on all VOD platforms.

4/10 D+

After becoming lost in the Louisiana swamplands, a group of holidaymakers must fight for their lives against a rampaging hippo on the loose.

Hungry is directed by James Nunn director of Wildcat (2025), One More Shot (2024), Shark Bait (2022), One Shot (2021) and many others.

I appreciate that someone attempted a killer hippopotamus movie (enough with the sharks!), unfortunately Hungry misses the mark on elements that should have been a home run.

Hungry has two halves, the first is a group of people stranded on a boat while the second half is the hippo starting to attack the group. The second half is by far the better portion since after all that’s the main reason the viewer is here, I must give credit where credit is due, the hippo actually looks quite great at times. There’s a some simple shots of the hippo peeking its head out of the water that are genuinely unsettling.

What really holds Hungry back however is mainly the movie taking way too long to get going and how it takes itself a bit too seriously at times. It’s a bit of a whiplash since the movie tries to both play in a silly and serious nature, the PG-13 rating also does not do the movie any favors especially when it comes to limiting the kills. When you combine that with budgetary restraints there are a lot of moments that end up being a mess.

When you combine all of this, Hungry just kind of exists. It’s not a terrible movie as there is some fun to be had and for a low budget movie it does with what it can, but overall there is just not a whole lot going on here at all.

Hungry is available on all VOD platforms.

5/10 C

Most Anticipated Films Of July 2026!

First and foremost, I do want to apologize for not doing a most anticipated films of June list. I did the Tribeca film festival and by the time that wrapped up some of the films included on the list had already released. So I decided to hold off on doing it.

Anyways the first half of 2026 is over which was quite strong for film, June did a pretty solid job of closing the first half of the year. Let’s see how July does!!

July 10th

Evil Dead Burn (Theaters)

The Invite (Theaters)

Night Nurse (Theaters)

Westhampton (Theaters)

July 17th

The Odyssey (Theaters)

July 24th

Her Private Hell (Theaters)

Rosebush Pruning (Theaters)

Sheep In The Box (Theaters)

July 31st

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Theaters)

I Want Your Sex (Theaters)