The Aisle Seat with Mike McGranaghan

Final Destination Bloodlines

Gross, gory, and grotesque.

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Hurry Up Tomorrow

Purple Rain for the 21st century.

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A Breed Apart

Foiled by inexcusably shoddy CGI.

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Clown in a Cornfield

A slasher with something on its mind.

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Shadow Force

Doesn't quite work but hardly a disaster.

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Current Releases

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The Accountant 2 Alarum Armand Ash Autumn and the Black Jaguar Becoming Led Zeppelin Being Maria Better Man Bob Trevino Likes It Borderline Brave the Dark The Brutalist Captain America: Brave New World Cleaner The Colors Within Companion The Damned Dark Nuns The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie Death of a Unicorn Den of Thieves 2: Pantera Drop The Encampments Fight or Flight Freaky Tales The Friend The Gorge
Hard TruthsHazard Heart Eyes Hell of a Summer Holy Night: Demon Hunters I'm Still Here Inheritance In the Lost Lands Into the Deep Invader It Feeds Juliet & Romeo The King of Kings The Last Republican The Last Showgirl The Legend of Ochi Like Father, Like Son Locked Love Hurts Magazine Dreams Mickey 17 Millers in Marriage A Minecraft Movie The Monkey My Dead Friend Zoe
Neighborhood WatchNight Call Night of the Zoopocalypse No Address Novocaine O'Dessa Old Guy One of Them Days On Swift Horses The Penguin Lessons Presence Riff Raff Rosario Rule Breakers The Rule of Jenny Pen Sacramento Seven Veils The Shrouds Sinners Sneaks Snow White Superboys of Malegaon The Surfer Thank You Very Much Thunderbolts* The Ugly Stepsister The Unbreakable Boy Until Dawn Valiant One Vulcanizadora Watch the Skies The Woman in the Yard Wolf Man

On Video & DVD

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The American Society of Magical NegroesMigrationGran Turismo
Anyone but YouMondo New York
One from the Heart: RepriseThe Man Who Wasn't There 3-D

Past Columns/Reviews

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The Aisle Seat Archives - Reviews from previous years
Reviews from the 2025 Boston Underground Film FestivalReviews from the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival

About Me

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Mike

The Aisle Seat critic, Mike McGranaghan, is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Online Film Critics Society. His reviews appear weekly on the radio stations of Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation. His work also regularly appears at Ranker. He is the author of two books, Straight-Up Blatant and My Year of Chevy: One Guy's Journey Through the Filmography of Chevy Chase, both of which are available at Amazon.com. Contact: mike@aisleseat.com

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