Stars: Cassandra Naud, Lisa Delamar, Georgina Campbell, Emily Tennant, Jonathan Whitesell | Written and Directed by Kurtis David Harder 2022’s Influencer was an example of not judging a book by its cover, as the title and premise made it seem like another disposable straight-to-streaming feature. Luckily, writer/director Kurtis David Harder delivered a surprise hit that […]
Stars: Dakota Gorman, Todd Terry, Jordan Mullins, Liz Atwater, James Austin Johnson | Written and Directed by Brock Bodell Making his feature debut, writer/director Brock Bodell opens Hellcat with a shot outside of a camper trailer. Raised voices are heard as a woman refuses to return inside of the vehicle, but this opening does not […]
Welcome to this review of NXT Heatwave, right here on Nerdly. Let’s get straight into it and see what went down in this Premium Live Event – only the second time this show was a PLE rather than a regular episode of NXT… Match #1: NXT Women’s Title No. 1 Contender’s Triple Threat Match – […]
Welcome to this review of AEW: Forbidden Door 2025, the first to take place in the UK, emanating from the O2 in London, England. The show opened with [a packed] Zero Hour as usual, which saw the team of El Desperado, Paragon (Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly), & Yuyu Uemura defeat CRU (Action Andretti & […]
Stars: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Taylour Paige, Jacob Tremblay, Luisa Guerreiro, David Yow, Julia Davis, Spencer Wilding | Written by Macon Blair, Lloyd Kaufman, Joe Ritter | Directed by Macon Blair Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger is finally here, and it arrives as an unapologetically grotesque yet oddly moving revival of one of […]
Stars: Rose Deghan, Chloë MacLeod, Victoria Wardell, Talisa Mae Stewart, Ashkan Nejati, Maryam Sadeghi | Written and Directed by Ava Maria Safai In the opening moments, writer/director Ava Maria Safai effectively establishes the 2004 setting of her feature debut, Foreigner. This is achieved through a retro-looking advertisement recorded on videotape, as the grainy ad for […]
Stars: Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Navarre, Elliot Jenicot, Remy Adriaens | Written by David Neiss | Directed by Grégory Morin With a career in making short films, director Grégory Morin makes his feature debut with Flush, a story set entirely within a single location. This set-up is an effective way to showcase filmmaking prowess within a […]
Welcome to this week’s review of AEW: Collision, which – like Dynamite – emanated from the OVO Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. With that, let’s get into the review! Match #1: Hiromu Takahashi & SkyFlight (Scorpio Sky, Dante Martin and Dariun Martin) def. Don Callis Family (Lance Archer, Josh Alexander, Hechicero and Rocky Romero) The following […]
Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show! Match #1: The Miz & Carmelo Hayes def. Motor City Machine Guns The following is courtesy of wwe.com: Just when it looked like Carmelo Hayes was zeroing in on the victory, […]
Stars: Kit Land, Vince Benvenuto, Russ Russo, Abria Jackson, Gigi Gustin, John Schaub, Caitlin Borek, Davon McClinton | Written by Illya Konstantin, Christopher Lang | Directed by Illya Konstantin “I don’t feel a thing!” Ambitiously, Night of Violence opens with a bizarre triplet of occurrences: one office employee, Elliot (Kit Land), doing his best sweaty […]
Stars: Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mary Beth Peil, Bruce Altman, Ethan Phillips, Jessica Hecht, Victor Williams | Written by James DeMonaco, Adam Cantor | Directed by James DeMonaco While he has been working since the mid-90s, with his first credit being for co-writing Francis Ford Coppola’s Jack, writer/director James DeMonaco is best known for creating […]
Stars: Chloë Levine, Will Peltz, Gillian White, Peter Vack, Johnathon Schaech, Grace Van Dien | Written and Directed by Racheal Cain Somnium is the first feature from writer/director Racheal Cain after a trio of shorts, Everything Beautiful, The Clancy Family Funeral Home and Roaddog. It’s a film about dreams, both literal and figurative, following Gemma […]
Stars: Luke Baines, Gwen Van Dam, Tatjana Marjanovic, Audrey Neal, Gabriella Westwood, Erik Fellows | Written by Michael Caissie, Alexander Nistratov | Directed by Michael Caissie Directed and co-written by Michael Cassie, No Tears in Hell is a bleak and unsettling true-crime inspired horror thriller that delves into the disturbing psychology of a killer while […]
Welcome to this week’s review of TNA Wrestling. Let’s get straight into the review and see what went down on this week’s show… Match #1: Knockouts Gauntlet for No. 1 Contender for the TNA Knockouts World Championship The following is courtesy of tnawrestling.com: Xia Brookside and Killer Kelly start the match in the disadvantageous #1 […]
Welcome to this week’s review of AEW: Dynamite, which was broadcast from the OVO Arena in Glasgow, Scotland – for the first time ever! Let’s get straight into the review of thus show, which had a special commentator in Bryan Danielson! Match #1: Hiroshi Tanahashi and JetSpeed def. The Death Riders The following is courtesy […]
Everyone knows and loves The Witcher mythos these days – where monsters are just misunderstood apex predators, and the best-laid plans of the human inhabitants of the world are just one step away from disaster. The Witcher: Path of Destiny captures that chaos beautifully. It’s a tableau-building card game that feels like a narrative brawl- […]
Stars: Matilda Lutz, Robert Sheehan, Wallis Day, Luca Pasqualino, Michael Bisping, Martyn Ford, Eliza Matengu, Danica Davis, Trevor Eve, Rhona Mitra | Written by Tasha Huo, Roy Thomas | Directed by M.J. Bassett After years adrift in development limbo, Red Sonja has finally hacked and slashed its way to the screen under the direction of […]
Jurassic World: Rebirth is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. It takes place three years after Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and is the fourth Jurassic World film as well as the seventh instalment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala […]
Welcome to this week’s review of NXT, right here on Nerdly. Let’s get straight into it and see what went down on this week’s show! Match #1: Philadelphia Street Fight – Josh Briggs def. Yoshiki Inamura The following is courtesy of wwe.com: Former friends Josh Briggs and Yoshiki Inamura battled in an incredible Philadelphia Street […]
Stars: Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham | Written by Akiva Goldsman | Directed by Stephen Hopkins Irwin Allen, the American film and television producer and director, was responsible for many great films and TV shows. I always loved The Time Tunnel and The Poseidon Adventure. But in 1965 he took […]
Stars: Kees Brusse, Monique van de Ven, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Diana Dobbelman, Dora van der Groen, Harcourt Curacao, Frank Davelaar | Written by Charles Gormley, Jan Verstappen, Harrie Verstappen | Directed by Wim Verstappen Wim Verstappen was a Dutch producer and director. In 1967, he started Scorpio Films, and among the productions he created during […]
Produced by Aturn Films and Television Bandits, directed by Kris Smith and co-written by Kris Smith and Joseph Betts, Diamond Dogs stars Nick Elliott, Andy Blithe, and Steve Knight and tells the story of a career jewel thief (Nick Elliott) who joins up with a retired criminal (Andy Blithe) to recruit a gang of associates […]
