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Trespass (VOD/limited)
“‘Trespass‘ is a stupid movie, with even dumber characters, and an atrocious plot. It’s a pointless movie that does nothing to further the home invasion subgenre, and ultimately becomes a snoozer of a copycat that isn’t worth a second of your time.”
There’s no arguing the filmmaking talent behind Trespass, directed by Joel Schumacher, but what hits the screen is an embarrassingly clichéd home invasion thriller that doesn’t have a single drop of entertainment value.
The pic centers on a crafty business man (Nicolas Cage) who, along with his wife (Nicole Kidman) and daughter (Liana Liberato), are the victims of a home invasion. The intruders want Cage to open his safe, which holds hundreds of thousands of dollars and diamonds.
The first and foremost problem is that there truly is nothing at stake. The invaders aren’t threatening; all they do is spend the first 45 minutes screaming back and forth with Cage. There are no sexual advances on Kidman or Liberato, and none of the masked men/women physically assault Cage. They literally just throw spit at each other and make loud threats. An hour into the movie, one of the baddies tosses out a line that literally says it all: “ Let’s start over.” That is the point where the movie should have started. Things finally escalate, but by then it’s too little, too late.
Even more embarrassing is the jumbled third act that ends up playing like the “OC” skit on “SNL” (see below). And even worse of an offense are the onslaught of twists (if you can even call them that) that prompted me to exclaim “what a twist!” aloud on several occasions.
Trespass is a stupid movie, with even dumber characters, and an atrocious plot. It’s a pointless movie that does nothing to further the home invasion subgenre, and ultimately becomes a snoozer of a copycat that isn’t worth a second of your time.
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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge
Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.
The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.
Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.
Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.
A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”
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