Detained is a single location thriller that’s allegedly full of mental twists and turns… except it’s largely predictable and obvious. It’s an utter failure at the one thing it needs to be: surprising. It’s about a woman brought into a … Continue reading
Dead Sea is a movie that I should rate lower, but I’m giving it a bump because, despite its many faults, I realized I cared. Somehow this tepid, slow-paced thriller full of frustrations and annoyances convinced me to root – … Continue reading
As a child, I wasn’t a fan of Harold and the Purple Crayon. I was a stan for The Monster at the End of This Book. Those scaredy-cat “Crayolas” had to have a magic crayon for their imagination. “Book Monsters” … Continue reading
Daddy Hitchcock would be proud. M. Night Shyamalan has made an excellent thriller that would have delighted the master film theorist and audience manipulator. A film that is just as good at being a suspense thriller as it is at … Continue reading
This vampire film is almost impossible to classify… is it a romance? a comedy? A Romantic Comedy? A horror movie? Not really any of those… even with all the vampires. It’s also not as quirky as the title suggests… it’s … Continue reading
I kept rooting (pun intended) for this flick to find purchase and really earn its slow burn atmosphere creep factor. And, for awhile, it really does… it was never “fast paced” or “exciting” or particularly “coherent” but what it was … Continue reading
Non Negotiable bugs me… not because it’s not much of a comedy and not because it’s only a barely decent thriller, but because it doesn’t have a hyphen in its title. But mainly because it’s not much of a comedy … Continue reading
When you aren’t sure you’ve just been punk’d watching a satire of a suspense thriller or the real deal, you know something has gone very wrong… or very right… depending on your camp tolerance. The Girl in the Pool stars … Continue reading
Deer Camp ’86 is a prime example of how taking a gamble on a nothing movie can actually work… sometimes. Not often. But in this case, I gave it a shot basically just because it’s set in Michigan where I … Continue reading
The Last Breath starts out well with a pretty good depiction of a WW2 German sub torpedoing an American warship. It’s not great but, by the low standards of shark attack movies, it’s outstanding. Then a shark appears for .5 … Continue reading