Nicholas Bruner's Blog

This is it: with this review, I’m caught up reviewing all the movies in the Alien franchise. The first Alien movie is one of only two horror movies I’ve reviewed to receive a perfect score, while its follow up Aliens got a rating of 6.5,...

The Company She Keeps: The Dangerous Life of a Model Turned Mafia Wife is a timepiece from the 1960’s New York mafia era. The author, former model-turned-stunt-car-driver Georgia Durante, shares her dramatic familial experiences with the mafia in this riveting memoir. Ms. Durante also...

As usual, I’m running behind in my reviews of movies I watched during the Halloween season. But we’ve come to the final movie in our theme this year, which was Halloween itself, for which I think Pumpkinhead was quite fitting. I was a little...

Of the classic movie monsters, my favorite is Frankenstein’s monster, so I was keenly interested to see this new version, directed by Guillermo del Toro. Oddly, I had a hard time finding a movie theater that was playing it. I live in an area...

Prometheus came out in 2012 as a prequel to the Alien franchise, set a couple hundred years before the other movies. I’ve reviewed nearly all the movies in the series here, and they really run the gamut. The first Alien movie is one of...

Here’s a Halloween-themed horror movie that’s been highly recommended to me by other horror fans a couple times over the years, so I was eager to see it. I think it could be filed under the category of cult classic. It was certainly cleverly...

Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis is a 2025 autobiography by Priscilla Presley detailing her life post Elvis. This memoir picks up from where Priscilla’s first book: Elvis and Me, left off. Priscilla broadly describes leaving Elvis in this memoir so she...

Thanks for this review go to our guest reviewer, the lovely and perceptive Corinne Dion! Corinne has interests in horror and opera, among other things, and will be providing occasional reviews on this site! World War Z, an action horror film that premiered in...

Every year I have a themed horror movie festival with my daughter in October, and this year’s theme is Halloween itself. So what better movie to start with than Halloween, the film named after the holiday? Now, I have to admit, slasher films are...

This latest sequel in the 28 … Later zombie franchise reminds me of 2024’s A Quiet Place: Day One in that it starts off as a regular horror movie, but ends up as something else entirely, and it’s a little hard to describe what,...