Film Critic

Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

Likes: Film, Beer (who the hell DOESN'T around here?!), writing, NY Mets, read more The Jets, Girls who love film AND beer (at the same time), Jazz, Deadwood, The Wire, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scorsese, Spielberg, Halloween season, Marvel movies, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe, Mother Nature

Review: Novitiate

PLOT: A teenaged girl enters the convent to become a nun, which requires a year of intense training and discipline. REVIEW: It’s often easier to flat-out hate a movie than to feel ambivalent about it. My problem with NOVITIATE, the...

The Snowman (Movie Review)

PLOT: An alcoholic cop tracks down a murderer known as The Snowman, Norway’s first serial killer. REVIEW: I had heard the bad buzz about THE SNOWMAN walking into it, but so what? Watching the opening credits, my eyes lit up...

Review: Wonderstruck

PLOT: In 1970s Michigan, a young boy finds a clue about his missing father and decides to pursue it all the way to New York. In 1920s New York, a young deaf girl attempts to make a connection with her...

Review: Leatherface

PLOT: Four violent young sociopaths escape from a mental hospital with a nurse as their captive. As a determined sheriff pursues them, one of these lunatics will ultimately be revealed as the cannibalistic serial killer Leatherface. REVIEW: Thing about LEATHERFACE...

Andy Muschietti enlists It actor Owen Teague for Locke & Key

Hot off the success of IT ($630 million worldwide and counting!), Andy Muschietti is keeping things in the family with his follow-up, a TV show based on Joe Hill's LOCKE & KEY graphic novel series. It was previously announced that...

The Babysitter (Movie Review)

PLOT: A teenager learns a frightening truth about his otherwise awesome babysitter when she invites some friends over one night. REVIEW: About four minutes into THE BABYSITTER, I was sure I was going to hate it. Right off the bat,...

Review: The Foreigner

PLOT: After a bomb planted by the IRA kills his daughter, a grieving father with a military background makes it his goal to find out who was responsible, a journey that will bring him face-to-face with a government official with...
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