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DROP – Review by T.J. Callahan

April 7, 2025April 11, 2025 T. J. Callahan blumhouse, Brandon Sklenar, Chris Roach, christopher landon, Drop, Jillian Jacobs, Meghann Fahy, thriller, universal pictures, Violett Beane

Drop is high tech Hitchcock. Slow burn suspense for the social media savvy where everyone is a suspect. Director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day) plays a game of chess with pawns aplenty. Every character is put in the line of fire whether they deserve to be or not. While Landon doesn’t let Drop fall flat, the film lacks buoyancy. The audience treads water for the first hour as the characters are introduced and the build up simmers. The last 30 minutes is a smash…literally.

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HEART EYES – Review by Nadine Whitney

February 11, 2025February 10, 2025 Nadine Whitney christopher landon, Gigi Zumbado, Heart Eyes, jordana brewster, Josh Ruben, Michela Watkins, Olivia Holt

There aren’t many films that have tried to blend the romantic comedy with a slasher film (zom-coms, vampire-coms, even ghost-coms are quite common), unless it falls into obvious parody terrain. Heart Eyes is homage first and parody second. Featuring a (non) couple at the centre of the film who are easy to root for with their breezy back and forth repartee and their ‘impossible to kill’ final couple dynamic. Heart Eyes can skirt a little too close to being self-satisfied with some all too obvious plotting, but that’s the point. Satirical, metatextual, and a loving throwback to the movies people grew up with, Heart Eyes isn’t deep or difficult. It’s good, clean, nasty and viscerally violent, fun. If Halloween and Happy Death Day sit next to 10 Things I Hate About You and Crazy, Stupid, Love on your shelf of favourites, Heart Eyes is just the ticket.

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FREAKY – Review by Leslie Combemale

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Leslie Combemale 0 Comments christopher landon, freaky, horror, Kathryn Newton, vince vaughn

The new horror comedy Freaky lands in time to splash cinematic blood all over Thanksgiving, and there will be lots of homebound horror fans who will be 100% there for it. Directed by Christopher Landon, the film is a twist on Freaky Friday, with the supernatural switch happening not between mother and daughter, but middle-aged serial killer and grieving high school cheerleader.