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Book Review: Alien The Illustrated Story

Rating: 10/10
PLOT: If you don’t know this story already, shame on ya! Here it goes anyways. Space Miners responding to a distress signal, accidentally bring back a phallic symbol heavy and deadly Xenomorph onto their spaceship, one that goes on to...
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Review: V/H/S

Rating: 7/10
Note: This review was originally published as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage in January, PLOT: A group of petty criminals are hired to steal a VHS tape from a spooky mansion. But first, they’ll have to go through the...
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Review: The Paperboy

Rating: 4/10
PLOT: Two reporters and a couple of lost souls team together to free a potentially wrongly convicted man in 1960s Florida. REVIEW: THE PAPERBOY as a whole can be summed up in one giddily tawdry, borderline embarrassing sequence (perhaps you’ve...
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Review: Butter

Rating: 3/10
(This review was originally posted on September 15th, 2011, as part of the TIFF) PLOT: Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell) is the butter-carving champ of the Midwest, and along with his domineering wife, Laura (Jennifer Garner) is the idol of his...
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Review: Hotel Transylvania

Rating: 5/10
(This review was originally posted on September 17th, as part of the TIFF) PLOT: After losing his wife to a vicious human mob, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) starts HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, a refuge for holidaying monsters. On his daughter Mavis’ (Selena...
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Review: The Revenant (Directed by Kerry Prior)

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: After dying in combat, Bart returns from the grave, pretty much the way he used to be – except for the fact that he has an unquenchable thirst for blood and his flesh is rotting off. Teaming up with...
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Review: Looper

Rating: 9/10
You can read Chris Bumbray’s LOOPER review right here! PLOT: In a future where time travel exists but is only utilized by criminals, a hitman for a crime syndicate finds himself in a metaphysical bind when his future self comes...
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Review: The Conspiracy (directed by Christopher MacBride)

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: After one of their conspiracy theorist subjects mysteriously vanishes, two documentary filmmakers get deeply ensconced in a horrific secret society ritual. REVIEW: Christopher MacBride’s low-budget Canadian feature debut, THE CONSPIRACY, fresh off its Fantastic Fest premiere, is a movie...
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Review: Solomon Kane

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: A once-brutal warrior who has renounced his violent ways finds himself on a quest to save a young woman from a vicious and demonic army. REVIEW: SOLOMON KANE is a lot more enjoyable than it has any right to...
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