Archive - Second Cut

Good Boy (2025) Review

Will the dog die, or will they save the day?

17 hrs ago •

Tron: Ares (2025) Review

If you’re after eyeball kicks for cinema, Tron: Ares is the place to go.

Oct 16 •

September 2025

The Strangers: Chapter Two (2025) Review

‘“Do not forgive them, Father, for they knew what they were doing and went and did it anyway."

Sep 30 •

One Battle After Another (2025) Review

"It’s like if The Fast and the Furious were about leftist revolutionaries."

Sep 29 •

Science Fiction Double Feature: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Shock Treatment (1981) Reviews

50 years since The Rocky Horror Picture Show released in US cinemas, Sam reviews it and its forgotten sort-of sequel.

Sep 25 •

Sam Sewell-Peterson

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Review

A cursed mirror serves as the focal point (eventually) for this series of demonic spook jumps.

Sep 23 •

The Long Walk (2025) Review

There’s no alien invasion. There’s no ghosts. It’s 50 boys walking, knowing that for all but one of them, it’s the last thing they’re going to do.

Sep 21 •

Safe (2025) Short Film Review

A prescient message of domestic abuse and those trying to help.

Sep 20 •

Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Review

This is undoubtedly Washington’s movie and a welcome reminder after a two decade hiatus why he and Lee make for such a killer team.

Sep 10 •

Sam Sewell-Peterson

August 2025

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