movie review

Review: The Keeping Room

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Three Southern women trying to maintain during the end of the Civil War are suddenly confronted with a pair of violent Union soldiers who intend to take everything from them. REVIEW: Daniel Barber's THE KEEPING ROOM is a morose...

Some Kind Of Hate (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: When bullied teenager Lincoln Taggert is whisked away to a countryside reform camp, he inadvertently summons the ghost of a fellow bullied teenage girl who seeks gory vengeance on his behalf. REVIEW: With very little accredited preamble to speak...

Southbound (TIFF Review 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Desperate travelers on a long-stretch of abandoned highway are forced to come face-to-face with their most primal fears. REVIEW: Anthology movies – by their very nature – are almost always uneven. At their best, such as the VHS series,...

Dark (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Stuck alone in her New York City apartment during the Northeast blackout of 2003, a woman cowers from noises coming from outside but truly has more to fear inside. REVIEW: Directed by Nick Basile from a screenplay by GUT...

Review: Everest

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Based on a true story, EVEREST recounts the 1996 expedition to the summit of Mount Everest by several groups of climbers, some experienced, some not, that resulted in multiple fatalities. REVIEW: The trailers may bill EVEREST as an edge-of-your-seat...

The Girl in the Photographs (TIFF Review 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A celebrity photographer (Kal Penn) and his vacuous posse descend on a small town when the amateur photographic work of a vicious serial killer attracts his attention. REVIEW: Being that THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS bears the name of...

The Hive (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

  PLOT: A young man wakes up in a fortified cabin without any memory of who he is or how he got there. All he knows for sure is that  he’s infected with some kind of virus, there’s a dead...

Horror Movie Reviews

Landmine Goes Click (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In one bout of revenge after another, a man who accidentally steps on an old landmine is forced to watch his buddy’s girlfriend get vilely violated in the most heinous of ways. If he makes so much as a...

Contracted: Phase II (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A police officer and a young man suffering from a terrifying disease uncover the threat of a plague that could bring about the end of days. REVIEW: Writer/director Eric England’s 2013 film CONTRACTED was a sneak attack of a...

Pod (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: When two estranged siblings head out to a snow dappled lake-house to intervene their deeply troubled brother, a paranoid delusion of grandeur turns into a nightmarishly real bloodbath. REVIEW: Once averaging a new film every two years – the...

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