Also caught the new Halle Berry suspense film Kidnap. That’s an apt title – the movie is basically about a kidnapping and absolutely nothing else. Truth in advertising. This is not a criticism – the movie knows it’s a B … Continue reading
The new movie It Comes at Night is a small indie horror/suspense movie where not only does nothing actually come at night, but also the movie comes dangerously close to things actually happening for 80 minutes. But, shew, mostly nothing … Continue reading
Also saw the oh-so-generic and generically titled Unforgettable. A movie title so bad it could be about anything AND so terrible because it doesn’t relate to anything in the movie. This is a totally paint-by-numbers domestic horror movie along the … Continue reading
The Belko Experiment is the other new movie released this weekend – call it major hail-Mary counter-programming to Beauty and the Beast. It’s got a premise that’s devious and sick and could make for a good movie… American workers at … Continue reading
Checked out an early showing of Get Out, the new horror suspense paranoia thriller by Jordan Peele of Key and Peele fame. Yes, the comedian wrote and directed (but did not star in) his first film – a ‘black’ horror … Continue reading
A Cure for Wellness is a new psychological suspense film that is overly long, predictable, tedious, and a real waste of time. If you want an idea of what the movie is, if you saw Shutter Island, you can pretty … Continue reading
Also saw Patriots Day, the new – and third in a row – film by director Peter Berg and actor Mark Whalberg. This follows their collaboration on Lone Survive and Deepwater Horizon and is also a real-life docudrama, this one … Continue reading
M. Night Shyamalan is back in a really impressive way with his new movie Split. Checked out an early Thursday showing and I’m so happy to see his little indie found footage movie The Visit from last year was not … Continue reading
Nocturnal Animals is an interesting and even fascinating but bleak and dark indie film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, and Armie Hammer. So it’s a great cast in a very good and certainly … Continue reading
Shut-In is a new horror movie with minimum advertising starring Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, and Jacob Tremblay (the little kid from Room). Basic premise… Naomi Watts lives in a great big house in the middle of the woods… her husband … Continue reading