Milla Jovavitch and Steve Zahn are a couple enjoying a newlywed hiking vacation on Kauai amidst reports that a male/female duo of killers may be in the area. Despite an eye-rollingly ridiculous ending, the story leading up to it is surprisingly clever, the acting really good, and the visuals of the coast of Hawaii’s Garden […]
Director Werner Herzog helms this larger than life true story of Dieter Dengler, the only American POW in the Vietnam War to escape the formidable jungles of Southeast Asia. The film has everything a war movie aficionado could want – a compelling story of a real war hero, loaded with gruesome details of life in […]
This low budget horror film, written by three-time Survivor contestant Jonathan Penner (who also has a cameo role) and directed by his wife, is about a group of Wisconsin college students who uncover a demon who stalks his victims when they utter or even hear his name. Uh, yeah. Don’t let the brief appearances by […]
This prequel to 2014’s Annabelle, itself a prequel to the acclaimed horror thriller The Conjuring, focuses on how the spooky life-sized doll turned demon conduit first came to be. Our story focuses on a couple in 1940s California that, 12 years after their own daughter was killed in a freak accident, opens their farmhouse to […]
On its surface this story about a family moving into a possessed home in rural Texas looks like a run of the mill B-grade horror flick. But this one is surprisingly stylish, has solid character development, and a pretty realistic, creepy story. Ethan Embry (Bobby Ray in Sweet Home Alabama) and Shiri Appelby (Lifetime Network’s […]
Charlize Theron produces and stars in this raucous spy thriller as a British agent trying to protect the identities of her colleagues in 1989 Berlin after her boo (also a spy) is killed while on a mission. This film is non-stop action – a frenetic orgy of violence infused with catchy, high energy 80s era […]
This is the life story of Maud Lewis, one of Canada’s most famous folk artists. When the physically disabled Nova Scotian answers an ad to be the live-in housekeeper for a cantankerous fish peddler in his tiny one room house, an unlikely romance develops, and Maudie’s artistic talent begins to flourish. The poignant character portraits, […]
Halle Berry produces and stars in this action-packed thriller about a mom who gives chase (in her minivan!) through the backroads of South Louisiana after witnessing her son being abducted at a New Orleans park. To say the storyline is implausible is an understatement – between the moronic child abductors and our even more moronic […]
This Dreamworks animated comedy stars Alec Baldwin as an adult executive posing as a newborn, at least as seen through the eyes of an envious, imaginative older brother. But even Baldwin and some really clever wide-eyed visuals can’t salvage this completely brainless, mediocre story whose one note joke falls flat after 10 minutes. This film’s […]
Jessica Chastain stars in this true story about a couple that secretly sheltered several hundred Jews at the Warsaw Zoo during the years of WWII Nazi occupation of Poland. Despite some very poignant moments and well done cinematography, the film’s weak adaptation from the popular novel and unfulfilled character development keeps it from reaching the […]