Birth/Rebirth is a morally corrupt film and I love it. Every single person in the movie has a vague if not non-existent grasp of medical ethics and we’re asked to go along with it. It’s dark, it’s meaty, it’s unsettling, … Continue reading
It’s hard to like a movie when it pulls a complete genre rope-a-dope on you. When it has to lie to tell its story, regardless of how important that story is. But I’m sure they used this horror movie Trojan … Continue reading
Till Death is a surprisingly good final act of an unfortunately overly long movie. But that final act – a good 30 minute conclusion – is so very good. I think they could have trimmed a good twenty minutes from … Continue reading
Hey, it was a 99 cent rental on iTunes so I finally gave in. I expected trash, I got trash. But I got fairly entertaining trash. There’s that kind of sleaze that knows its sleazy and this movie, I think, … Continue reading
This film almost gets there but it sags too much in the middle which kills the momentum of a good idea. The kind of high concept good idea that nearly everyone can identify with on some level. If you’ve ever … Continue reading
I’m very much on the edge on this movie. I didn’t “get it”… I don’t feel like I saw the tense, taut, thoughtful suspense/horror movie every one else did. I saw a slow, ponderous, plodding film that has occasional creepy, … Continue reading
Melodrama… the movie! That’s what I thought was the star of this movie for long stretches of it, despite the presence of Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, and Jennifer Jason Leigh(‘s terrible hair/wig). Which doesn’t mean it’s a bad … Continue reading
When just about everything goes wrong with a movie, you get Redemption Day. It’s a wannabe Jack Ryan/Tom Clancy geopolitical thriller that doesn’t have the smarts for those ambitions. It’s poorly directed and mushily edited, the acting is sometimes pretty … Continue reading
Things Heard & Seen is a movie about ghosts that isn’t a horror film (to its credit). It IS a suspense/thriller about a marriage falling apart, lies, deceit, and the slow unravelling of truth. It just happens to be set … Continue reading
The Oak Room is a rather fascinating case of seeming mediocrity turning into a surprise, suddenly engaging film in the last act. I wasn’t sure what I was getting into… though, after seeing it, the idea that it was listed … Continue reading