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A Christmas Horror Story (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: On a chilly and ill-fated Christmas Eve night, four varied tales of terror all coalesce around the quaint little town of Bailey Downs. Zombified elves, a demonic changeling and the ancient Christmastime killer Krampus are out to gift the...

Review: Carol

Posted 11 years ago

Reviewed from New York Film Festival 2015 PLOT: In 1950s New York, two women, one a married housewife, the other a young woman without many prospects, find each other at a crucial juncture in both of their lives. Their subsequent...

Review: The Walk

Posted 11 years ago

Reviewed from New York Film Festival 2015 PLOT: The true story of Philippe Petit's monumental high wire walk across the Twin Towers in 1974. REVIEW:THE WALK is a whimsical, mostly entertaining and surprisingly frivolous look at Philippe Petit, the adventurous...

The Green Inferno (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: When a motley band of college activists travels to the Peruvian Amazon in order to help save a native tribe's plot of land, a near fatal plane crash plunges them all deep into a cannibalistic heart of darkness! REVIEW:...

Review: Hotel Transylvania 2

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Hotel Transylvania owner Dracula becomes obsessed with finding out if his new grandson takes after his vampire daughter or human son-in-law.  REVIEW: If you’ve got a kid who’s jonesing for the Halloween season, you could do worse than HOTEL...

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...

Pay the Ghost (Movie Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A father's desperate search for his missing child unearths a Halloween curse that goes back more than 300 years. REVIEW: Nicolas Cage has a tendency to go over-the-top, a fact which has become overwhelming in his public perception and...

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,...

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...

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