The premise is so promising – a young woman (Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer) travels to Japan’s famous suicide-plagued Aokigahara Forest after her identical twin sister goes missing there. But the only thing scary about this J-horror flick is that a plot so insipid and boring was actually made into a movie. And with an […]
Despite an unnervingly compelling setting and solid acting performances led by Maisie Williams (Arya from Game of Thrones), the plot, about a string of faintings among a girls school in 1969 England, is an exasperingly pointless, muddled mess.
Loosely based on the Afghanistan experiences of former Chicago Tribune war correspondent Kim Barker, this drama/comedy combo of Tina Fey and journalism should yield a well-written, funny, insightful film, right? Uh… no. Despite a few chuckles, the stunning Margot Robbie, and a touching scene towards the end, the movie is a sloppily-written, slapped together, pointless […]
Fans of the prior Insidious films will enjoy this prequel that explains how psychic Elise, expertly played by Lin Shaye, reluctantly got her start, but this latest installment lacks the thrills and chills of the original.
The scariest thing about this film is that a studio actually greenlit its making. There is nothing remotely scary or even interesting about this silly, terrible film. Hollywood, please let this awful film franchise be done.
Without spoiling it, this psychological roller coaster is quite an intense thrill ride – just when you think you have figured it out, it throws a curve ball from waaaaayyy out of left field to keep you second guessing yourself. Mary Elizabeth Winsted is excellent as our noisy, problem solving ingenue who, after a car […]
You know you are in trouble when the four main cast members in a film use their own first names for their characters. This is an embarrassingly amateurish, feeble attempt at moviemaking. The flimsy plot, about a group of high schoolers putting on the same play during which a student died during a freak accident […]
This film, based on Michael Lewis’ best seller about the real estate bubble of the 2000s, uses humor and wit to simplify the complexity of the 2008 financial crisis, showing the absolute corruption and greed of the Wall Street investment bankers that allowed this cataclysmic collapse to occur, which nearly caused the end of the […]
This Cold War tale, based on circumstances surrounding the Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy plane incident, is another solid, socially moral, pleasing Steven Spielberg effort. And Tom Hanks is, as usual, great. But the film just isn’t particularly remarkable.
Kirsten Dunst stars in this doomsday drama about a young woman suffering from depression on her wedding day just as Earth is about to be destroyed by another planet. You’ll find yourself rooting for the planet that will destroy Earth in this dreary, tedious film. Moviegoers walked out – not from the shock of controversy-seeking […]