Amber Alert is a thriller that director Kerry Bellessa kind of made already back in 2012. The earlier Amber Alert, which I haven’t seen, is a low budget found footage pic where this new one clearly had a much higher … Continue reading
Last Straw is a home invasion thriller set in a diner… so a diner invasion thriller? Not sure that’s a subgenre… but anyway, it starts out strong and then makes a script blunder and just barely recovers. It’s about a … Continue reading
A two year old action/thriller that boosts no particular footprint on pop culture was a strange movie to pick. But a non-LB friend recommended it out of nowhere and after years of ignoring his recommendations to watch Justified and Yellowstone, … Continue reading
Subservience begins as a hugely uneventful sci-fi drama, turns into a low-brow erotic thriller, and ends up the exact same battle with the AI bot you’ve seen before. It does none of this well and does most of it boring. … Continue reading
Speak No Evil is such a generic title, I didn’t realize it was an American remake of the Danish film of the same name. It took me twenty minutes to realize it was actively similar in theme but it was … Continue reading
When it comes thrillers and horror, I’m usually the guy who says dumb characters are ok since, if they were smart, we wouldn’t have a movie. But Out Comes the Wolves proves that I have my limits. The flick is … Continue reading
I was all set to give Rebel Ridge a superlative star rating within its first hour but as soon as the flick went from defense to offense, it fell hard. I was so disappointed in the final act from a … Continue reading
1992 is two, two, two movies in one… and they don’t play well together. It wants to be a serious film about surviving the Rodney King riots in LA 1992… while also being a heist film. Too bad it’s more … Continue reading
The only thing I knew about City of Dreams was that it was an immigrant story. The person who said that was sugar-coating it because, yeah, its an immigrant story in the same way Grave of the Fireflies is about … Continue reading
Slingshot is a frustrating and frustrated science fiction film that has one tiny bit of scientific knowledge and hand-waves away the rest. But I was ok with that since it’s a low budget film that opts to go psychological over … Continue reading