The Marvel comic universe has made up for its prior lack of black superheroes on the big screen in a huge way in this story of Black Panther, a young man whose leadership skills are tested when he becomes king of the secretly technologically-advanced African nation of Wakanda. Director Ryan Coogler injects eye-popping visual effects, […]
When a group of high schoolers stumble across a video game version of the original Jumanji board game, they are transported into the jungle adventure game as the avatars they chose in this lighthearted, entertaining spin on the original 1995 film. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan (Oculus, and the Guardians of […]
When four longtime companions mark the tragic death of a friend by hiking in the remote forests of Northern Sweden, they find themselves in an increasingly terrifying Norse mythology camping nightmare, complete with a spooky cabin, Druid witchcraft, inexplicable animal mutilations and the discovery of personal effects from long-missing campers. Uh oh! Director David Bruckner (V/H/S) […]
Matt Damon stars as a mercenary soldier who ends up battling alongside Chinese warriors when one of the world’s seven ancient wonders comes under attack by supernatural monsters. (Oh, so THAT’s why they built it. ?) Had the producers spent half as much time on an interesting, coherent story and good CGI as they did […]
When eccentric rifle company heiress Sarah Winchester moved to rural California in 1884, she embarked on a 38 year construction project on her estate, adding a random hodgepodge of rooms, hallways and stairwells, many of which led to nowhere, as a result of what she claimed were conversations with the ghosts of those killed by […]
JJ Abrams’ highly-anticipated sequel to his popular 2008 sci-fi thriller Cloverfield (and 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane) picks up sometime in the future, where a multi-national space station crew trying to solve a global energy crisis on Earth discovers a time-and-space bending effect that enables travel between different dimensions. The Netflix/Paramount Pictures joint venture, released on […]
Perspective is everything. Such is the message of this bizarre thriller starring Christopher Plummer as an elderly widower turned Nazi hunter whose actions are orchestrated by fellow Holocaust survivor Martin Landau (in one of his final roles) from the nursing home where they both live. The catch? Plummer has dementia, which means he must refer […]
This horror flick joins the ranks of The Bye Bye Man, The Tall Man and the upcoming Slender Man, about a creepy demon that taps into the worst fears of those who summon them to scare the bejeesus out of, and ultimately, kill them. Word of caution – these “man” films are generally awful. This […]
This Netflix original horror film is about a teenage boy and his mom who temporarily move into a relative’s mountain house that is for sale after the sudden death of their family’s father, only to be terrorized by creepy occurrences that make them think they may not be alone. The unoriginal premise could still have […]
Christian Bale is a bigoted Army captain tasked with transporting a dying Cheyenne war chief rival and his family from New Mexico to Montana in this 1890s period Western. Bale is, as expected, super intense, and Rosamund Pike, as the sole survivor of a Comanche attack on her family, is equally powerful, but it is […]