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THEY WILL KILL YOU – Review by Nadine Whitney

March 24, 2026March 26, 2026 Nadine Whitney Alex Litwak, heather graham, Kirill Sokolov, Myha’la, Patricia Arquette, They Will Kill You, Zazie Beetz

Kirill Sokolov’s first English language feature is far from substantial. Indeed, when one reads that his filmmaking style is influenced by Park Chan-Wook, Sam Raimi’s gory-driven horror-comedies, and anime, They Will Kill You becomes obviously derivative. Yet, there’s pleasure at just how far he is willing to go with his one-woman army played by Zazie Beetz. Everything is turned up to eleven and the film doesn’t stop for a moment. If you want a rip-roaring, messy, (mostly) one location survival thriller with ultra-violence, crawling eyeballs, and Satanists of the Ready or Not variety wearing pig masks and robes in a spooky private building in New York, Sokolov has you covered (in blood and guts). They Will Kill You isn’t selling a deep story; it’s selling a splatter-stick dark comedy with maximum carnage. It’s gross and bloody fun.

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DEAD MAN’S WIRE – Review by Diane Carson

January 20, 2026January 25, 2026 Diane Carson al pacino, Austin Kolodney, Bill Skarsgard, Colman Domingo, Dacre Montgomery, Dead Man’s Wire, gus van sant, Myha’la, truth-based

Dead Man’s Wire stays firmly immersed in a bizarre, true story. Not surprisingly, especially these days, invented stories cannot match real life for bizarre, mind-boggling incidents. That holds true for director Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire. Based on a true story that took place beginning February 8, 1977 in Indianapolis, Van Sant chooses to thrust audiences immediately into the startling events and to anchor all subsequent scenes in the ongoing nightmare for Meridian Mortgage Company executive Richard ‘Dick’ Hall. For it is Hall who becomes Tony Kiritsis’ hostage when his father M.L. Hall, the company’s unsympathetic CEO, is in Florida, unconcerned about a scheduled meeting with Kiritsis.