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01/15/26

HIS & HERS (Netflix; 2026)
Starring Jon Bernthal, Tessa Thompson, Pablo Schreiber  
When a murder is committed in her home town, a fallen journalist uses the killing as a way to get her old job back, despite the fact that the crime involves those she knows well. Tense but sometimes silly thriller features some terrific performances and it watchable although it inevitably falls apart in the later episodes.

PRIMATE (Theaters; 2025)
Starring Troy Kotsur, Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander
A group of teens just wants to spend a nice vacation at their father’s fancy Hawaiian home. When their pet chimpanzee becomes infected with rabies and goes homicidally insane, however, the vacation proves to be difficult to enjoy. Old-school type horror movie with lots of jump scares and truly gory effects especially when you realize the horrors on screen have also happened in real life.

STONE COLD FOX (Netflix; 2025)
Starring Kiernan Shipka, Jamie Chung, Krysten Ritter, Kiefer Sutherland
Kiernan stars as the title character, a woman who will go to any length to protect her sister and, in doing so, uncover a series of crimes. Great showcase for Kiernan, who proves she can play this type of rough-edged role (after being Sabrina the Teenage Witch) but this film seems to think it's a Quentin Tarantino knock-off when it’s more along the lines of a bad, 70s action film.

01/08/2026

MARTY SUPREME (Theaters; 2025)
Starring Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Odessa A’zion, Penn Jillette, Sandra Bernhard
Marty Mauser, a young man tennis table player— This isn’t a ping pong movie, it’s a table tennis movie—will do anything to accomplish his dream: To be the greatest table tennis player of all time. With hurdles thrown in his way every step of the way, Marty and the other characters here make nothing but bad decisions throughout the entire film, in search of their individual greatness … or support of Marty’s. Extremely well-made, -written directed and acted with Chalamet being yet again the stand-out, but often very frustrating and grim.

THE COPENHAGEN TEST (Peacock; 2025)
Starring Simi Liu, Melissa Barrera, Saul Rubinek
An intelligence analyst discovers that his brain has been hacked and is sending everything he sees and hears to a mysterious enemy. Should he de-activate? Or should he keep it on to find out who the bad guys are? Interesting spy thriller that falls halfway through a straightforward John Le Carre novel and a minor James Bond film. Certainly entertaining enough, even though there are few real surprises to be found here.

THE PICKLEBALL EXORCIST (Various Streamers; 2025)
Starring Mike Hartsfield, Chris Lohman, Paul Bradford
A pickleball player finds a paddle that contains a demon and goes on a violent killing spree. Lots of walking from murder scene to murder scene, lots of smart phone special effects blood and not a heck of a lot more. One of the worst movies I’ve seen in years. I’m only watching it so you don’t have to.

01/01/2026

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