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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...

The Predator (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After a young boy inadvertently communicates with a deadly Predator, a group of ex-soldiers find themselves not only in a battle for their own survival, but the future of the human race itself. REVIEW: There was a lot of...

The Basement (Movie Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A cross between ‘Silence of the Lambs’ and ‘Split,’ The Basement is about an L.A. serial killer known as The Gemini (Jackson Davis), who tortures and ultimately murders his victims in the dungeon-like basement of his San Fernando Valley...

Halloween (TIFF Review)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After forty years, Michael Myers finally escapes custody and goes on the hunt for his old nemesis, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), but after decades of waiting, she’s ready for him…or is she? REVIEW: It was quite a thrill...

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