Unpacking the year’s most important release!! Turtlemania!! With a new short in theaters, a new season of the animated series, a reboot of the IDW Comics series, and a scorching hot Arrow Video Limited Edition box set of the original movies, there’s no question it’s totally Turtlemania time! Join us as we celebrate the Teenage […] The post Turtlemania! Unboxing Arrow Video’s Totally Tubular TMNT Trilogy 4K Box Set first appeared on Cinapse.

The Mutant Mayhem Turtles Return in a new short preceding the new Spongebob Movie: The Search for Squarepants This Friday Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star return in their fourth movie, The Search for Squarepants. It’s a hilarious and silly family adventure worth checking out, but in this section of the mutant hive the bigger draw […] The post Turtlemania: The TMNT (and a Familiar Villain) Return to the Big Screen in Radical New Short CHROME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW JERSEY first appeared on Cinapse.

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Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contribute their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comments are encouraged, as are suggestions for future picks. Join us as we share our two cents on films we love, films […] The post Redford Retrospective: Two Cents Breaks the Silence with ALL IS LOST first appeared on Cinapse.

“She had this in her hand before she died.” Since Jodie Foster has done it all and done it well, the question remains: What will she do next? A Private Life is the only real answer. What else could an actress of Foster’s esteem do but lead a film (in French, no less) about the […] The post Jodie Foster Gives One of the Year’s Most Haunting Performances in A PRIVATE LIFE first appeared on Cinapse.

Kier-La Janisse discusses adapting and directing her entry in Shudder’s The Haunted Season It was right around this time last year that I had the chance to interview one of my favorite authors, directors, and Blu-ray set producers, Kier-La Janisse, for All the Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2. That conversation took place just after her […] The post Occupying the Director’s Chair: Kier-La Janisse On Her Narrative Debut THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM – Now Streaming on Shudder first appeared on Cinapse.

The Reboot by Mike P. Nelson is nothing short of a gift for slasher fans! For those not around for the release of the original Silent Night, Deadly Night, the film earned its notoriety thanks not only to being one of the meanest slashers out there, but to the protests that sprang up over its […] The post SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Turns the Yuletide Slasher Into a Twisted Hallmark Miracle first appeared on Cinapse.

Jingle all the way into some hard-hitting holiday classics

Eddington is a film about the Republican Party, and why it is such a shit show today. It’s also an incredibly important film to the cultural ecosystem. Eddington is arguably the zeitgeist film of 2025. A film that is both an account of recent history and a reflection of our current political chaos, Eddington is […] The post Eddington Is A Conservative Film (And Why That’s A Good Thing) first appeared on Cinapse.

Keeper has finally convinced me that Director Osgood Perkins not only has the goods, but also knows how to daisy chain scares with the best of them. Keeper is not what you expect, from either the advertisements, or from any previous film in director Osgood Perkins filmography. What starts out as a slow boil of […] The post KEEPER Sees Perkins Turn Up The Heat In This Intense & Surreal Spook Show first appeared on Cinapse.

“You don’t want to get left behind!” One of the things I’ve noticed about Michael Showalter is the reverence he has for older actresses. The writer/director gave Sally Field her best latter day role in Hello, My Name is Doris (which should’ve netted her an Oscar nomination), allowed Holly Hunter to showcase both her comedic […] The post Michelle Pfeiffer Does it for the Moms in the Lovably Lunatic OH. WHAT. FUN. first appeared on Cinapse.

With Man Finds Tape, Austin’s own Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman prove there’s plenty of life to reality horror in this Southern slice of cosmic terror

“You’re about as romantic as a pair of handcuffs.” As this Noirvember comes to an end, I thought it fitting that I write a piece celebrating two great noir titles. Of course, there were many to choose from as the decade of the 1940s produced a bevy of classics from the heyday of film noir. […] The post Closing Out Noirvember with a Pair of 50s Classics [SUNSET BOULEVARD & THE BIG HEAT] first appeared on Cinapse.

The anthropomorphic sequel is more of the same, but that’s not a bad thing. Apologies for being overly obvious, but we can cut right to the chase on this one: if you liked Zootopia you’ll like Zootopia 2. Scrappy rookie cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and her odd-coupled sly fox pal Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) […] The post ZOOTOPIA 2 – Furry Friends Find Their Footing in Family-Friendly Film Noir Followup first appeared on Cinapse.