Monthly Archive: January 2024

Night Swim (2024)

Directed & Written by Bryce McGuire

Last year, right about this time, Blumhouse released a movie about a little killer animatronic friend called Megan. Surprisingly, I liked Megan quite a bit for a January release of a movie featuring a killer doll doing TikTok dances, a fact that encouraged me to see the new Blumhouse/Atomic Robot collaboration, Night Swim. The trailer didn’t tell me too much about Night Swim, just that someone swims at night, and if you couldn’t figure that out from the title, then you may need more help than I can give, but I was trying to keep an open mind and hope that just maybe a magical repeat would happen and Blumhouse would be back on top after that mind-blowingly bad conclusion to the new Halloween trilogy. I summoned all of my hopes and decided to dive into Night Swim. (You know I had to get at least one water pun in there.)

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Directed by Takashi Yamazaki

70 years ago, the face of cinema changed in an instant when the king of the monsters, Godzilla, burst onto the scene in a classic horror movie about, among other things, the horrors of nuclear warfare. Things changed a lot for Godzilla after that and he became everything from a villain, a force of nature, a protector of children, and even the guardian of Earth when extraterrestrial beasts reared their ugly heads again and again, but Godzilla was and still is the best kaiju. Sure, there are a million spinoffs, knockoffs, and ‘inspired by’ monsters, but none of them have stood the test of time like Godzilla, a monster I am 100% sure you can clearly picture in your head right now without me even having to describe him. With more than 30 films in the series there were bound to be some bad ones, and boy were they bad, but none of that matters because Godzilla Minus One is here to remind everyone how it’s done and make it look easy.