Blood stars Michelle Monaghan as a recently divorced woman hoping to retain custody of her children. When her younger child comes down with a sickness, she discovers he's only cured through blood. She has to make some tough calls that risks both her custody of her children, her own safety, and the lives of others.

I liked these characters and I liked the movie's whole moribund, dreary, somber mood. Every shot looks grayer and sadder than the last and the…

That moment when you start a movie and realize you've made a grave error in judgement. Alone at Night (spoiler: she's rarely alone at night) is a terrible, no good rotten stab (hah) at a slasher thriller mystery thing.

This'll be familiar... during Covid lockdown, a woman shelters in a cabin... in the woods. She's a cam-girl so we get random inserted sexy time on laptops and also a Paris Hilton (?!) hosted reality show that's about as dumb as…

In my original review of Prey I praised it for its tone, setting, and characters... and how it was a variation on the original film. I'm not sure I agree on the variation since this is the last in my Predator franchise rewatch and if anything is a variation, it's Predators. Prey is doing something different.

All the Predator films are about the underdogs vs. the armed alien menace from space. But all of them - except perhaps the two…

Knock at the Cabin is one of M. Night Shyamalan's better pictures, often encroaching on the top tier of his career. Doesn't quite get there, but it's sometimes a squeaker. If the script had been a little tighter, a little smarter, we'd have had a winner (and we'd be one step closer to calling the bad ol' days of After Earth and The Last Airbender an anomaly).

The film is about a family at a cabin (in the woods) who…