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The Trigonal (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: When his wife is brutally attacked, professional fighter Jacob Casa's mission of revenge involves entering an underground tournament where the contenders fight to the death. REVIEW: Among my earliest cinematic fascinations were martial arts action films, from Bruce Lee...

Await Further Instructions (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A family's unpleasant Christmas gathering gets even worse when they find something has trapped them inside the house. REVIEW: I can never watch any movie that's about a group of characters fighting among themselves while trapped in one location...

Death Kiss (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A vigilante with a mysterious past who goes to a crime-infested city and takes the law into his own hands, at the same time protecting a young mother and her child. REVIEW: As good or bad as the finished...

Knuckleball (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Stranded at his grandfather's house after the old man passes away, a boy has to fend for himself against a homicidal intruder. REVIEW: Director Michael Peterson's thriller KNUCKLEBALL is such an economical film, it's a little surprising that it...

Housewife (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A married woman with a tragic past has a life-changing encounter with a cult. REVIEW: If director Can Evrenol's film HOUSEWIFE has anything going for it, it's the cinematography by Tayman Tekin, which calls to mind the color-soaked imagery...

Hell Fest (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A group of teenagers are systematically stalked by a masked maniac at Hell Fest, an amusement park for horror fanatics. REVIEW: Such an avid fan of slasher flicks I am that, perhaps counter-intuitively, I’ve incredibly low standards to achieve...

Piercing (Fantastic Fest review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A man who intends to murder a prostitute finds the act isn't as easy as anticipated. REVIEW: Two years ago, at my first Fantastic Fest, I found the movie that shook me the most was THE EYES OF MY...

Review: Apostle (Fantastic Fest)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: Early 1900s: On a desolated island somewhere in Europe, a man searches for his sister, recently kidnapped by a cult with mysterious motives. REVIEW: With THE RAID and THE RAID 2, writer-director-editor Gareth Evans has more than proven he...

The House With a Clock in Its Walls (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: When a young orphan named Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) is sent to live with his warlock uncle Jonathan Barnavelt (Jack Black), the boy learns how to conduct magic spells that could very well save the world from a doomsday scenario....

Mandy (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2018 coverage. PLOT: 1983 A.D – the Shadow Mountains. Red Miller (Nicolas Cage)’s idyllic life comes crashing down when his beloved girlfriend, Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) is kidnapped by a...

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