Erik Childress

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast 5 days ago 3/4 Another necessary documentary to embrace as a reminder that criticizing those in power is not the same as condemning people. Go to Full Review Holding Liat (2025) 96% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast 5 days ago 1.5/4 Less a cautionary tale about drugs and addiction and more a stark warning and reminder not to store your bowling balls on a top shelf. Go to Full Review Junk (2024) 36% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast 5 days ago 1.5/4 Just because Sam Raimi beats you to the punch with Darkman, it is still on you to not just do Darkman. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 21, 2026 1.5/4 Chris Rock really blew the lid off of Hollywood’s problem with bipolar siblings. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 60% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 21, 2026 3/4 Flaws and all, in a perfect world, people would be going to see this in a theater instead of just another video game adaptation. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 73% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 19, 2026 1.5/4 Despite having one of the great werewolf carnage sequences you may have ever seen, the rest of the film flounders from one new creature/threat to the next with none of the characters generating any interest beyond reacting to or causing said carnage. Go to Full Review DEVOUR (2025) - - - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 19, 2026 3.5/4 The cult of this moron should watch all four hours of this film and maybe learn something that many of us have known for years like what his actual engineering skills are and just how good that Tesla autopilot feature actually is. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 19, 2026 1/4 Somehow the new Street Fighter makes the Mortal Kombat films look like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and some of the performances make us miss Chris Klein as Nash. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 16, 2026 3.5/4 One of the only films to effectively use the Covid pandemic as a place in time where our grief has not yet been reconciled and we just tried to run away from it as quickly as possible. Go to Full Review Love of Your Life (2026) 81% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 14, 2026 3/4 Joko Anwar transforms what could have been a routine entrapped-with-a-monster tale into its own tale of redemption while letting subgenres from martial arts to prison breaks to even musicals enrich the gory fun. Go to Full Review Ghost in the Cell (2026) 94% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 13, 2026 3/4 Universal did Savage a disservice in putting the stink of doubt on it by not screening it for critics because this is a well-made, occasionally inventive, scary and ultimately interesting film about a child’s insecurity about their parents' well-being. Go to Full Review Other Mommy (2026) 19% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 13, 2026 3/4 Sorkin still needs a director other than himself to visually add to the natural rhythm of his words. But those words and a few key performances from Mikey Madison and Bill Burr are enough to make this a follow-up worth listening to. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 3, 2026 0.5/4 Colleen Hoover’s attempt at a Gone Girl narrative when not being dull is setting you up for a series of even more ridiculous twists, none of which tie together with any competency even by the craziest standards of trashy Housemaid-like thrillers. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 3, 2026 1/4 When all else fails with the comedy and social commentary, which is frequently, Duke just has everyone spray the area with bullets like they are in the jungle with Predator to whittle down the cast. Go to Full Review Stranglehold (2026) - - - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 3, 2026 1.5/4 The kind of bad movie that only talented people seem to make. Loud comedy without wit so get louder and remind people this is satire while an ironic meta commentary looms suggesting Inarritu’s story would have been better told starting at the end. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Oct 1, 2026 3/4 Performances by Pattinson, Wever & Gisondo strike the precise balance for the material that doesn’t always work with Oppenheim’s approach in a film that works as a window rather than the more encompassing legacy attached in David Osit’s doc, Predators. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Sep 30, 2026 2/4 You get wolves and even a bear from better survival tales like The Grey and The Edge. Yes, you do get a good dog too but it all amounts to a remarkably underwhelming film about a guy with supplies who already likes the wilderness before crashing there. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 85% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Sep 29, 2026 0.5/4 Fan fiction slop with a pair of leads so wooden in navigating the lamest of rom-com tropes it almost makes one yearn for the Fifty Shades films where we expected laughably sexual dialogue and horrible behavior. Go to Full Review The Love Hypothesis (2026) 73% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Sep 28, 2026 3/4 The cinematography is gorgeous and the information is pertinent but Ethan Hawke’s soothing narration may be the film’s MVP. Go to Full Review Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers (2026) 100% - -

Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Sep 23, 2026 3.5/4 In-between the amazement of how prevalent the voice of Darlene Love has lived in our brain through song for decades, there is such joy emanating off the screen just being in her presence which help make this one of the more memorable music docs. Go to Full Review Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been (2026) 100% - -