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THIEVES’ HIGHWAY

US, 2025, 83 minutes, Colour.

Aaron Eckhart, Devon Sawa, Lochlyn Munro.

Directed by Jesse V. Johnson.

Contemporary Western about cattle rustling. The director, Jesse V. Johnson, has made a number of action films, especially with Scott Adkins. His film prior to this one also starred Aaron Eckhart, Chief of Station.

Aaron Eckhart plays a tough lawman, taking stock of the local situation, the complaints about cattle disappearing, a lot of detail about farmers and their predicaments and a certain helplessness in stopping the rustling. He is assisted by a local officer, a family man, played by Lochlyn Munro, who is killed by the rustlers. The brains behind the enterprise, the villain, is played by Devon Sawa.

The focus is on the cattle, the method used to steal, to disguise, to pass off the cattle on the trucks as legitimate, making for the Mexican border.

There are quite a number of rustlers involved, young and old, in fear of the boss, in dangerous predicaments and wounded, confronted by the authorities.

Aaron Eckhart’s character is stern, within the law, but very much a vigilante attitude towards the criminals, culminating in quite a number of confrontations, violent deaths, and the challenge of the chief criminal and the lawman seemingly in the situation of defeat.

For fans of small dramas, Western settings, aspects of the old Western in a film of 2025.

SCARY MOVIE

US, 2026, 96 minutes, Colour.

Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Farris, Regina Hall, Tatiana Taylor, Kenan Thompson, Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Carmen Electra, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott.

Directed by Michael Tiddes.

Unsubtlety personified!  Thumbnail review – or, perhaps, Inanity personified.

Not that the filmmakers intended the film to be subtle or whatever is the opposite of inanity.

It is 20+ years since the series began and this is number six. In those early days, audiences enjoyed the references to the horror films, the parodies, and some scary moments. But, in 2026, everything is played for laughs rather than scares. And, if the audience is unsubtlety-tolerant, they will enjoy some references to horror films of recent years, the Clown, the Terrifier, but it is all mainly variations on the Scream franchise’s Ghostface, lots of Ghostfaces. Lots of Ghostface situations and menace – and slashings. Some of the veterans from the previous films appear again with references to the past and their performances and status.

At the end of the credits, there is a statement from Keenan Ivory Wayans stating that he lays all responsibility for this film on Marlon Wayans, co-writer and playing a number of roles throughout. Actually, looking at the number of times the name Wayans appears, the film seems to be a family enterprise!

Absolutely-tolerant fans only.