Movie Review Jane

Jane (2022) 

Directed by Sabrina Jaglom 

Written by Sabrina Jaglom, Rishi Rajani 

Starring Madelaine Petsch, Chloe Yu, Chloe Bailey

Release Date August 26th, in AMC Theaters only, and on the new streaming platform CreatorPlus on September16th, 2022. 

The opening moments of Jane begin with a woman standing on the end of a wooden outcrop. Below her is a roiling ocean. The woman takes a step forward and disappears into the abyss. We soon find out that the young woman who has taken her own life is Jane. Jane’s death will drive the plot of the movie named for her as she haunts her former friends, especially our main character, Olivia played by Riverdale star Madelaine Petsch. 

Olivia, played by Madelaine Petsch, lives by a very specific, very strict clock. Her day is planned out by her time of awakening, her shower, her breakfast and the time for leaving for school. Naturally, at school, her day operates on another schedule, one set by the school, but also one that is unchanging as her home schedule. Whether this is a trait Olivia has always had or one developed as a trauma coping mechanism is unknown, though I imagine this regimented life is something she chooses rather than having it thrust upon her.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here. 

Movie Review The Exorcism

The Exorcism (2024) 

Directed by Joshua John Miller 

Written by M.A Fortin, Joshua John Miller 

Starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Chloe Bailey, David Hyde Pierce, Adam Goldberg 

Release Date June 21st, 2024 

Published June 20th, 2024 

Russell Crowe is in a strange period of his career. The former leading man, heartthrob, and box office star, is now a sideshow act in the world of horror. I'm not saying it's a downgrade, but going from being an Academy Award nominee to starring in multiple movies centered around exorcists or or exorcism is certainly not what anyone would have predicted regarding a man who was once one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. Crowe's career was derailed by alcohol and bad behavior and now he finds himself in a genre famous for actors slumming it hoping for a hit and a comeback. 

Just last year, Crowe starred in the odd, so bad it's good, exorcism horror flick, The Pope's Exorcist. That film was so successful that Crowe is making a sequel in 2025, marking the third exorcism-centric film in a period of three years. That's weird right? I'm not crazy, that's just a bizarre turn of events. For his second exorcism movie in two year, Crowe stars in The Exorcism in which he plays a down on his luck former leading man actor who takes a role in a horror movie where he plays a priest who is leading an exorcism of a possessed teenager. The meta is apparently coincidental but nonetheless inescapable.

Find my full length review at Horror.Media, linked here.