Stuart Atkinson

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie

The Girl Who Played With Firestarter

Reviewed May 16, 2025

When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source. Genres: Animation, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

The Bots And The Hound

Reviewed May 9, 2025

Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me." Genres: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Enter the Matrix four years before the Neo-lithic Era

Reviewed May 2, 2025

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster. Genres: Action, Animation, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Femme Fatale

Body Double-Crosser

Reviewed Apr 25, 2025

A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both. Genres: Crime, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

How To Overfeed Your Dragon

Reviewed Apr 22, 2025

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Theatrical Release

Snowden

Natural Born Leakers

Reviewed Apr 18, 2025

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press. Genres: Crime, Drama, History, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness

50 Shades of Grayson Azriel

Reviewed Apr 15, 2025

A noble warrior must battle dragons and demons while upholding his moral code as he covertly joins a group of villains to rescue his kidnapped father from Shathrax, the Mind Flayer, who threatens to destroy the world. Genres: Adventure, Direct to Video/Streaming, Drama, Fantasy

Blackhat

Malware Vice

Reviewed Apr 11, 2025

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning. Genres: Action, Crime, Theatrical Release, Thriller

A Minecraft Movie

Cocky Blockers

Reviewed Apr 8, 2025

Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve. Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Theatrical Release, Video Game Movies, Zombie

Swordfish

What the eyes see, and the ears hear, the mind calls Holl...

Reviewed Apr 4, 2025

Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything. Genres: Action, Crime, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God

A saga for the ages… or at least a podcast appropriate ...

Reviewed Apr 1, 2025

Due to a curse from his former master Profion, Damodar survived his death by Ridley Freeborn as an undead entity in pursuit of an evil artifact for some hundred years, so that he might be capable of unleashing unstoppable destruction on Izmir and the descendants of those who caused his demise. Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, TV Movie, Zombie

Antitrust

Cruel Inventions

Reviewed Mar 28, 2025

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Theatrical Release

Dungeons & Dragons (2000)

The Desolation of Snails

Reviewed Mar 25, 2025

The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina vows to bring equality and prosperity to her land, the evil mage Profion plots to depose her. Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Theatrical Release

Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven

A Star F*cker Is Born

Reviewed Mar 21, 2025

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show. Genres: Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Mazes and Monsters

That Thing You Pardieu 

Reviewed Mar 18, 2025

Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie

Brown Arrow

Showgirls

Saved By The Pole

Reviewed Mar 14, 2025

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way. Genres: Drama, Theatrical Release

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Goodbye Friend

Reviewed Mar 11, 2025

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release

Brown Arrow

Hackers

Worm, Interrupted

Reviewed Mar 7, 2025

Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Ouija

Hi Friend.

Reviewed Mar 4, 2025

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release

The Net

While You Were Doxing

Reviewed Feb 28, 2025

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The Monkey

Dead Time For Bonzo

Reviewed Feb 25, 2025

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. Genres: Comedy, Horror, Theatrical Release

Sneakers

Three Days of the Coder

Reviewed Feb 21, 2025

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers. Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Theatrical Release

Captain America: Brave New World

The Leader of the Package

Reviewed Feb 18, 2025

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release, Thriller

WarGames

Ferris Bueller’s Day After

Reviewed Feb 14, 2025

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller