At a time when some of us have grown tired of the predictable CGI-infused Marvel comic book movie blockbusters, here is a snark-filled, potty-mouthed send up BY Marvel, featuring Ryan Reynolds as unlikely anti-hero Deadpool, spouting a stream of expletives and tons of truly hilarious moments (the zamboni!), a masterfully mocking opening credits and a […]
A faux-Patriotic, mindlessly entertaining but utterly ridiculous display of terrorism porn that has a higher body count in the first half hour than all three seasons of The Walking Dead combined. The acting (Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo) is way better than this super-lame script deserves.
This unoriginal, kid-friendly, Jumanji-esque fantasy adventure has the new teenage boy in town helping next door neighbor RL Stine (creator of the wildly popular Goosebumps children’s books, played by Jack Black) put all his monsters back in the pages of his books after an incident leads to their being released into the real world. Uh, […]
This psychological horror, based on actual stories from 1630 New England, follows a family exiled from their religious colony to a new, less Puritanical life of misfortune near an ominous looking forest. First time director Robert Eggers is meticulous with detail – from an effectively mundane, bleak setting, a sometimes hard-to-follow English dialect, and a […]
Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp star in Norway’s first major disaster film, about a rock avalanche that causes a massive, fast-moving tsunami through the deep fjord leading to the picturesque tourist haven of Geiranger. And while this film has all the cliches and CGI special effects of a Hollywood blockbuster, this Scandinavian saga features […]
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.