A documentary-style scarefest about two friends on an around the world trip who stumble upon a bad situation in Paris, that quickly spirals into a living nightmare. The script is cheesy with cliches galore, but it does manage to entertain throughout, despite the predictable “goes off the rails” type ending of most low budget horror […]
First, the good news. This is M. Night Shymalan’s best movie in years. The bad news? “Best” for him still sucks because his other films are so terrible there is nowhere for him to go BUT up. The horror film’s premise is itself great – a couple of preteens decide to accept an invite to […]
Cameron Crowe should be saying aloha to his glory days in film, thanks to this meandering, nonsensical film about about a defense contractor involved in the launch a satellite. (Seriously, who greenlit this crap?!) Crowe lays waste to a great cast and great scenery with a really insipid story. The ending, however, is sweet.
Oh goody. Yet another “found footage” horror flick, this time from a faux ghostbusters “reality TV” show that stumbles upon the real deal at an abandoned orphanage. An effectively creepy setting and some decent special effects are ruined by an amateurish script, terrible acting and a mind-numbingly hokey ending.
This visually striking 2015 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film is based on the brief 2012 occupation of the ancient Sahara desert city by gun-toting Islamic extremists. Despite its simplicity, lack of character development and an agonizingly slow pace (seriously, I’ve seen paint dry faster), the film’s tragic vignettes portraying the stiff penalties […]
Director Bennett Miller does an exceptional job of capturing the bizarre true life crime story of John E. duPont and his obsessive relationship with Olympic wrestling’s decorated Schultz brothers. Aided by outstanding performances by Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, a realistically slow pace and super depressing mood, this film will linger in your […]
This post-apocalyptic zombie film borrows heavily from The Walking Dead, 30 Days of Night, I Am Legend and Signs to hobble together a story about a group of survivors eeking out an existence in a remote, snowbound town. Extinction focuses more on character development and less on the monsters (at least until the ending).
If you are in the mood to put your brain on autopilot for a mind-numbingly ridiculous, special effects overloaded, rollercoaster ride of a disaster flick featuring some equally disastrous overacting by Paul Giamatti, then grab the popcorn! Led by The Rock, the rest of the cast actually does a pretty solid job acting their way […]
As teenage cancer movies go, this one certainly delivers the combination of cute, clever moments along with the gut-wrenching, tear-inducing ones, but there is something about the main character’s annoyingly excessive quirkiness that, for me, killed the mood of the film a little more often than it enhanced it. Even so, the film’s good message […]
This gore-filled knockoff of Evil Dead, about a demon possessing teenagers in an abandoned insane asylum, features a laughably lame story combined with equally terrible acting and dialogue. If only the filmmakers had been possessed with good taste…