• Film Review: Severance

    Director Christopher Smith has returned in top form from his previous film Creep (2004) with the man verses man film Severance. Where his previous film was a claustrophobic nightmare, Severance fills the frame with the openness of wilderness as a group of weapons developers and salesmen trek out to the middle of nowhere for a team building weekend. Things take a turn for the worst when the group discover that they’ve ventured off of their destination to a part of the woods inhabited by someone who decides to use them for target practice.



  • Film Review: Mr. Brooks

    There have been few serial killer films this year that warrant a glimpse – Perfume, The Story of a Murderer and Zodiac and Behind the Mask are but a few, but with Mr. Brooks serial killers hit back harder then they have in some time. Unlike the cluttered Hannibal Rising, Mr. Brooks is a tour de force of star power that actually get it right for a change.



  • Film Review: Shopgirl

    There are few romantic dramedies as successful as this Anand Tucker directed film Shopgirl, which is from the Steve Martin novel. Having previously directed the independent film Hilary & Jackie (1998), Tucker is more than capable of handling the quiet moments of Martin’s dense story about a lonely shopgirl who’s looking for love in the big city far away from home.



  • Film Review: Jason Goes to Hell: the Final Friday (1993)

    The Friday the 13th franchise fell a long way when this uninspired sequel JASON GOES TO HELL:THE FINAL FRIDAY hit screens in 1993. New Line Cinema had just gotten the rights to the franchise from Paramount who had bled it dry four years earlier with PART 8: JASON TAKES MANHATTEN, so, they decided to go in a different direction. In the new film Jason was made into a supernatural being that could switch bodies and be reborn through a living relative.



  • Film Review: Living Hell (aka Iki-jigoku)

    I’ve seen a lot of Japanese horror films and this one is one in which I wish I hadn’t. I like a good low budget oddity as much as the next person but this film from writer/director Shugo Fujii is a complete mess of a film.



  • Film Reviews: Wicked Little Things

    An interesting idea of children who were killed in a mining accident haunting the surrounding woods of a small mountain community. When Karen (Lori Heuring) Tunning and her daughters Sarah and Emma (Scout Taylor-Compton and Chloe Moretz, respectfully) move into the old family home or her late husband nothing seems to go well as Emma finds herself befriending one of the ghost children while Sarah and her new friends are picked off one by one.



  • Film Review: Penny Dreadful

    Although I really enjoyed PENNY DREADFUL there is one thing that just bugs me.



  • Film Review: Dark Ride

    I wanted to like this little indie film about of group of college kids who detour from their road trip to an abandoned amusement park that harbors dark secrets of its own. Going in I knew that it couldn’t be too much new that I hadn’t already seen and/or experienced before but the previews were entertaining and the production values looked good, which I have to hand it to the production the film looks excellent on par with some of the wider released films of late.



  • Film Review: Sliver

    SLIVER is not a bad movie, just not as good as the Ira Levin novel it’s based upon. It looses something in the translation especially in the script from infamous screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, better known to most people as the man behind BASIC INSTINCT and SHOWGIRLS. Like many of Eszterhas’ films there are plenty of sexual overtones which is present in the novel but the deeper meaning of the novel is in the seduction of voyeurism and having the ability to play God with the lives of other people.



  • Film Review: Commando

    Arnold Schwarzenegger did a lot of forgettable films in the ‘80s and this is one of them. It’s wafer thin plot of an ex-commando trying to save his daughter from old buddies who have turned on him has been used a million takes (and will continue to be until the end of time), but what sold this film was the name Schwarzenegger who was at the top of the box office charts.