Josh Heuston

Prime Video’s Off Campus; it’s Dawson’s Creek for the TikTok generation

Off Campus understands exactly what it is selling within the first ten minutes. Beautiful people. Hockey players with tragic backstories and perfect jawlines. College hookups shot like perfume ads. Emotional vulnerability wrapped in towels (and sometimes not) and locker-room lighting. It knows the “girls, gays, and theys” audience it is chasing, and it goes after…

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Film Review: Dangerous Animals is a pulpy thriller aware of its own madness

Given that it’s merging two proven cinematic killers – one serial, the other a shark – it makes sense that Sean Byrne‘s horror-adjacent thriller is suitably tense and highly aware of its own madness. No stranger to executing unbearable tension and providing an antagonist that we can’t help but be utterly absorbed by (see The…

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