For Jacob's first edition in his new column, Head Canon, he explores Sam Elliott's late stage coming of age minor masterpiece, LIFEGUARD.

Marten takes us on a guided tour though Stephen King's favorite towns, connecting his fiction to our nostalgic reality.

Brandon looks back on that time Van Damme was allowed to truly express his own artistic pain (while still kicking a bunch of ass).

Brandon explains how the small scale Scott Adkins superhero sequel delivers the brutal fisticuffs 2022 desperately needed.

Brandon interrogates Big Nick and finds him to be even scummier than we originally thought.

Brandon on the softer side of Stallone.

Why Brandon thinks Rebecca Hall is the best working performer in horror (and cinema in general) these days.

Brandon's back, talking about the sinful, seductive pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn's gruesome, reviled follow up to DRIVE.

The final installment in this first volume of Ex-sentials, Jacob chronicles the languid beauty of Peter Fonda's stellar acid Western.

The third installment in this mini-series of exploitation essentials zeroes in on Umberto Lenzi's Italocrime masterwork of fascist violence.

The first volume of Ex-sentials continues with Burt Reynolds' directorial debut: the granddaddy of bloated action spectacle, GATOR.

Jacob launches a new mini-series covering the trash cinema classics every sleaze aficionado cannot miss.

Brandon smashes some brains with this love letter to the lo-fi genre madman.

Brett Gallman recalls how Jason X signaled the rise of Internet access to the latest body count shenanigans of our favorite masked maniacs.

In which Jacob ponders the question: has our mainstream entertainment become to safe to be, well, entertaining?

Jacob goes long on the career of modern horror's most excitingly idiosyncratic auteur.

Brett's back at SH and sounding the alarm for folks to just embrace horror movies being out of their fucking minds again.

Brandon's back and telling you why you should embrace the goofy sincerity of notorious video game action epic, STREET FIGHTER.

Anya Stanley returns to Secret Handshake and digs into why Death is a omnipresent player in the JACKASS universe.

Brandon reveals how a minor late period work tells us all we need to know about Lee Marvin's legacy as a grizzled action star.