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‘Disclosure Day’ Masterfully Made But Misses Spielberg Classic Status
Steven Spielberg brings his signature sense of wonder to Disclosure Day, along with John Williams’ score and Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography, but the sci-fi story doesn’t quite live up to the sum of its parts.
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Big Screen ‘Backrooms’ An Unsettling But Uneven Debut for Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons becomes the latest (and youngest) in the YouTuber-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline with the A24 adaptation of his Backrooms liminal space series.
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Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ a Humorous and Harrowing Horror Story
YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker’s Obsession is like Get Out for “nice guys”, blending funny, disturbing, and highly entertaining horror with surprisingly impactful themes.
Featured Reviews
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‘Exit 8’ Video Game Becomes Psychological Horror in New Japanese Film
‘Exit 8’ adds depth to a popular Japanese liminal space video game, creating an effective, surprisingly tense psychological horror film.
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‘The Drama’ Could Become the Most Discussed Film of the Year
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star in The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli’s jet-black comedy about a happily engaged couple whose love is put to the test after a shocking revelation during a party game.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Brings Much-Needed Hope to Cinema Screens
‘Project Hail Mary’ couples Ryan Gosling’s charm with a sci-fi sense of wonder for a story about the value of connection, cooperation, and compassion.
Latest Reviews
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Same jokes, different season in ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’
The Harold & Kumar series began with a witty jaunt to White Castle, landed the boys in Gitmo and now sees them decking the halls in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. This time around, we find Harold (John Cho) happily married and successful. He and his wife, Maria (Paula Garcés), are celebrating Christmas…
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Audience empathizes with former cult member in ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’
Your family isn’t there for you, the world has nothing to offer you and you’ve lost all hope. But while you feel like you’ve hit rock bottom you run into a group of friendly people who take you in. They live on a self-sustaining farm and call you family. They give you a job to…
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Fast pace keeps ‘In Time’ entertaining
Time is money in In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. In this future society, everyone stops aging at 25 (when they’re at the height of hotness, coincidentally) and gets one year of time to “spend” trying to extend their lifespan. The super rich can live forever while the poor end up dying in…
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‘In Time’ surprisingly entertaining
Every morning Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) wakes up he has less than a day to live. So he gets up early and looks for work to buy more time. The movie In Time is a futuristic world where time has replaced money. When you want to buy things you purchase them in units of minutes,…
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Depp channels Thompson in wandering tale of excess and corruption
The Rum Diary, based on the early Hunter S. Thompson novel, takes a searing look at excess and corruption in Puerto Rico in 1960. Johnny Depp stars as Paul Kemp, a journalist who travels to the island to write for a failing newspaper. Paul is a go-with-the-flow kind of guy who’s not out to mix…
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Johnny Depp clashes with Ricky Gervais over Golden Globes
In this clip from the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy ‘Life’s Too Short’ (starring Warwick Davis) Johnny Depp goes to see Ricky Gervais and tears into him about the Golden Globes. His delivery of the lines is incredible, particularly “I want you to know this, and I want you to carry this with you for the…
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Indie horror flick ’15’ keeps viewers on edge
Do you ever wonder what attracts people to violence or what it is exactly that we, as humans, are so fascinated by when it comes to murder? Do you want to know what makes a serial killer tick? 15: An Exploration of Human Violence, an independent, low budget horror film from Portland, Oregon attempts to…
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Arizona indie ‘The Big Something’ a big hit
Lewis is a down on his luck, vinyl aficionado. He’s broke, lives out of the record store he works in, and now he’s the prime suspect in the murder of his boss and friend, Marcus. Poor guy can’t catch a break. Luckily, the prime suspect label doesn’t last long. One morning Lewis comes home to…
