The director who brought us such controversial, sexually violent 1990s films as Basic Instinct and Showgirls is back, with the complex tale of a calculating, emotionally-distant businesswoman who, after being raped in her home, focuses her aggression towards men to discover the identity of her attacker. Isabelle Huppert’s Golden Globe winning performance as a feminist […]
Kate Beckinsale stars as an emotionally troubled mother trying to start a new life with her husband and son in, of all places, a haunted house in the country (great idea!) in this silly, psychological horror. A ridiculously weak, disjointed story underscored by equally weak acting will have you rooting for the ghosts to breathe […]
This surprisingly thrilling low budget film is what would happen if Blair Witch Project and the classic video game Resident Evil 4 had a baby. It starts off predictably enough, with four campers getting the bejeesus scared out of them after spotting a mysterious creature in the hills outside of Los Angeles. The second half […]
The premise of this low budget horror mockumentary, about a mysterious mass murder in a small Arizona town near the Mexican border, is intriguing: a series of blurry photos taken by the accused murderer paints a very different sinister picture of what occurred that fateful night. While those photos and “crime scene visuals” amp up […]
A multi-national crew onboard the International Space Station retrieves a spacecraft from Mars – reviving a long dormant life form that starts growing and picking them off one by one. Sound familiar? Although this story has been done before, this pulse-pounding sci-fi hybrid of Alien and Gravity, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, differs from […]
For a B-grade horror flick, it is an ambitious kitchen sink of horror film homages – it just lacks consistency and needs more scares. The predictable story has a UFO crashing in the Utah desert, but instead of The Blob, out pops a hideous hybrid Alien/Terminator monster that sucks all body fluids out of its […]
Comic book nerds who, as children, used to fantasize about which superheroes would win battles with one other will be delighted with this third installment in the Captain America franchise which features just that, when world governments attempt to curb their powers, creating a schism within the Avengers. The two and a half hour film, […]
Disney’s 1991 film, based on the classic French fairy tale, made history as the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. It had it all – a highly imaginative, heartfelt story, spectacular animation, and great songs – and as a result, some pretty big shoes to fill. Not only does […]
Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart make their X-Men swan song in this broody, futuristic tale about aging and mortality that has Wolverine and Professor Charles Xavier living in exile at a remote outpost near the Mexican border in 2029, at a time when there are almost no mutants left. When a young mutant girl appears, […]
If you are in the mood to see some incredible visual effects and truly horrifying monsters, than this first installment of the latest reboot of the King Kong franchise is for you. If, however, you are seeking an actual story, look elsewhere, because this hot mess express is one of the worst written movies I […]