The Aisle Seat with Mike McGranaghan

The Little Mermaid

Halle Bailey is a superstar.

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New This Week

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Kandahar

Bland and forgettable.

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The Wrath of Becky

The film offers a peculiar kind of catharsis.

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The Starling Girl

A coming-of-age film from a fresh perspective.

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A Good Person

Florence Pugh is a force of nature.

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Current Releases

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80 for Brady Alice, Darling Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out The Amazing Maurice Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. The Artifice Girl At Midnight Baby Ruby Back to the Drive-In Beau Is Afraid Beyond Human Nature BlackBerry The Black Demon Book Club: The Next Chapter Born to Fly Boston Strangler Carmen Chevalier Children of the Corn Clock Cocaine Bear Come Out Fighting Consecration Creed III Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Re-release) The Devil Conspiracy The Drop Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Emily Enys Men Evil Dead Rise Fast X Fool's Paradise Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 His Only Son How to Blow Up a Pipeline Hunt Club Hypnotic
I Got a Monster Inside It Ain't Over Jesus Revolution John Wick: Chapter 4 Kids vs. Aliens Knock at the CabinLinoleum Little Dixie Little Richard: I Am Everything A Little White Lie Living Living with Chucky The Lost King Mafia Mamma A Man Called Otto Marlowe Master Gardener Maybe I Do M3GAN Missing Monica Moving On My Happy Ending Nefarious New Gods: Yang Jian The Old Way One Fine Morning One True Loves Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin The Outwaters The Pale Blue Eye Peter Pan & Wendy Plane Paint Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Quasi Rally Road Racers RenfieldReturn to Seoul Ride On Rye Lane Sanctuary Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge Scream VI The Seven Faces of Jane Shazam! Fury of the Gods She Came from the Woods Shotgun Wedding Showing Up Sisu Skinamarink Smoking Causes Coughing Somebody I Used to Know Somewhere in Queens The Son Southern Gospel Spinning Gold The Super Mario Bros. Movie Sweetwater Suzume There's Something Wrong with the Children The Thorn Titanic 25th Anniversary Re-release To Catch a Killer The Tutor Unicorn Wars Unwelcome What's Love Got to Do with It? When You Finish Saving the World White Men Can't Jump You People

On Video & DVD

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Phenomena
Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm
Audrey Rose

Past Columns/Reviews

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The Aisle Seat Archives - Reviews from previous years 40 Years Later, Grindhouse Slasher 'X-Ray' Is Lean, Mean, and Relevant Plot Twists That Happen Right In The Middle Of The Movie And Change Everything 16 Underrated War Movies That Deserve Another Shot 17 Underrated Bill Murray Performances That Remind Us Why We Love Him
The Ten Best Documentaries of 2022 Reviews from the 2022 Fantastic Fest Singing Scenes In Non-Musical Movies That Make Us Say 'WTF?' Actors Who Died Just As They Were Reaching Their Full Potential Sundance Film Festival 2022 Coverage
The Ten Best Films of 2022 The Ten Worst Films of 2022 Every Major NC-17 Movie Since The Rating Was Invented Actors Who Turned A Small Supporting Role Into A Huge Movie Star Breakout

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.