Stars: Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, John Early, Christie Burke, Danny Mac, Damon Johnson | Written by Patrick Cunnane, David Freyne | Directed by David Freyne Unlike most love triangles you watch on screen, this one doesn’t pretend to be real. I don’t usually lead by talking about the plot, but […]
Stars: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Bad Bunny, Carol Kane | Written by Charlie Huston | Directed by Darren Aronofsky Director Darren Aronofsky returns to the screen with Caught Stealing, a high-energy crime caper based on the novel by Charlie Huston, who also wrote the script. […]
Stars: Hassen Kacem, Jessica Ambuehl, Kaitlyn Trentham, Michael Sheffield | Written and Directed by Colin Krawchuk The Jester 2 finally feels like the movie this character has been clawing his way toward since those viral shorts – a proper, full-fat Halloween slasher that embraces its own weirdness instead of pretending to be something sleeker or […]
Features the voices of: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, Idris Elba, Shakira, Patrick Warburton, Quinta Brunson, Danny Trejo | Written by Jared Bush | Directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard A little long for a kids’ film, Zootropolis 2 clearly had points to make, but perhaps not one hour […]
Stars: Lauren Staerck, Coco Taylor, Ella Starbuck, Lila Lasso, Gillian Broderick, Tiernan Mullane, Howard J. Davey, Romulus Hotea | Written by Scott Chambers | Directed by Tyler-James Crocodile Swarm is the latest micro-budget creature feature birthed from the same British filmmaking circle responsible for the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey cinematic… “universe.” This round […]
Disaster films have been thrilling audiences since the earliest days of cinema. From The Great Train Robbery to San Francisco to Titanic, viewers have always been drawn to catastrophe on screen. Maybe it’s morbid curiosity, maybe it’s the fascination with watching ordinary people pushed to their limits. Honestly, it’s probably a bit of both. The […]
Stars: Bryan Brewer, Julia Burenok, Christina Fielding, Briana Nicole, Jamie Grefe, Maggi Nowlan, Kristine Thompson | Written and Directed by Jamie Grefe We’ve covered plenty of Scott Jeffrey’s output on Nerdly, but he’s not the only rapid-fire filmmaker making waves. Gregory Hatanaka has somehow produced 54 films in 2025 – a number that should not […]
Stars: Jamie Grefe, Sofia Papuashvili | Written and Directed by Jamie Grefe We’ve talked plenty on Nerdly about the hyper-prolific end of indie filmmaking. The Scott Jeffreys, the Louisa Warrens, and more recently the Gregory Hatanakas – directors who churn out movies with the relentlessness of a photocopier on fire. And right there in that […]
Kevin sits down to review the new Joseph Millson lead movie, Empire of Lies. A movie about a grieving father cut off from the world and desperate to just get through the next day, when a journalist shows up to hear his story, things get all too real for Dave. When a mysterious young woman […]
Arrow Video have been treating collectors to their lavish Shaw Brothers collections – the mighty Shawscope sets – for a good while now. And guess what? We’ve already reached Volume 4. Volume 4! Hard to believe there’s been that many, but yes… Arrow keep spoiling us. Shawscope Volume 4 is the biggest, wildest box yet. […]
Stars: Manny Luke, Erin Áine, Punkie Johnson, Hendrix Deveroux, Christian Casillas, Carlo Mendez, Nichole McAuley, Anna Valencia, Leighton B. Allen, Scott Anthony Simmons | Written by Kyle Valle, Manny Luke, Erin Áine | Directed by Kyle Valle Once in a while, an indie horror-comedy comes along that’s so packed with personality, you can almost hear […]
Stars: Helena Jauregui, Savanna Blau, Jamie Grefe, Chris Spinelli | Written and Directed by Jamie Grefe We’ve covered Scott Jeffrey plenty on Nerdly, but he’s not the only one-man film machine out there. The real productivity monster might be Gregory Hatanaka, who somehow has 54 producing credits in 2025 alone. Wild. Like Jeffrey, Hatanaka works […]
Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Wayne Knight, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich | Written by Scott Cawthorn | Directed by Emma Tammi Based on the popular video game series, the first Five Nights at Freddy’s movie became a monster hit in 2023, despite largely lacklustre reviews. Now there’s a sequel, the unimaginatively titled Five […]
Stars: Sonny Middleton, Bella Ramsey, Ziad Abaza, Elleese Bradshaw, Kristy Smedley, Jonny Phillips | Written and Directed by Derry Shillitto Written and directed by Derry Shillitto, The Correction Unit is a sci-fi horror flick about data harvesting, mind control, and the pretence of rehabilitation. Shawn (Sonny Middleton) finds himself in Brookfield’s Young Offenders’ Institute, his […]
Stars: Yukino Kaizu, YU, Yutaka Kyan, Tammy Lin, Mimi Shao, Ray Fan, Mondo Otani, Wan-Hao Chen, Yuhei Shirakawa, Raion Yoza | Written and Directed by Kenichi Ugana Having made features for nearly a decade, Kenichi Ugana has never failed to show his clear love for horror films. My experience with the director has been with […]
Stars: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Valerie Franco, Jean Cromie, Kerry Godliman, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, June Chadwick, Fran Drescher, Griffin Matthews | Written by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer | Directed by Rob Reiner Back in 1984, audiences were introduced to something truly unique: a mockumentary about a […]
Stars: Chrissie Wunna, Anna Rakhvalova, Clara Legallais-Moha, Christopher Kouros, Nick Field, Joseph Heaps, Brynmor Leyshon, Dimitrios Pantos | Written by Alessandro Di Giuseppe | Directed by Sushank Kini Champdog Films – long-time purveyors of micro-budget British genre mayhem – are back at it again. But this time they’re swerving away from another horror sequel or […]
Stars: Michael Pataki, Bob Minor, Stephen Stucker, Colleen Brennan, Brenda Miller, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Jane Steele, Ralph Campbell, Zoe Grant | Written by Greg Corarito, John Lamb, Maurice Smith | Directed by Greg Corarito VCI Entertainment have long been known for releasing classic films, but in recent years, they’ve also dipped into the world of […]
Stars: David Christian, Elia Berthoud, Arya Shahbazy, Adem Yilmaz, Michelle Deniz Rinehart, Arneta Liberyte, Anthony Tran, Kaan Ylimaz | Written and Directed by Bilal Kalyoncu Bilal Kalyoncu, writer of the recently released Quarantine-19, also heads behind the camera for US-lensed quasi-slasher movie The Final Party, which sees outcast Alex (David Christian) and his friends set […]
Stars: Ayse Akin, Adem Yilmaz, Özüm Çakir, Kaan Yilmaz, Melih Degirmenci, Selçuk Yapar, Michelle Deniz Rinehart, Allen Stewart | Written by Bilal Kalyoncu, Can Sarcan, Koray Yeltekin | Directed by Can Sarcan Part of Turkey’s contribution to the slew of quarantine-inspired films that emerged during the Covid-19 period (with the “19” in the title leaving […]
Stars: Spencer Breslin, Eric Roberts, Bai Ling, Michael Paré, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tom Arnold, William McNamara, Robert LaSardo, Lisa Wilcox, Lorelei Linklater, Nicole Butler | Written by Ethan Phillips, Shawn C. Phillips | Directed by Shawn C. Phillips There’s something genuinely delightful about watching a lifelong horror reviewer pick up a camera and say, “Right, I’m […]
