You’re running through a jungle on a deserted island in the Devil’s Triangle, part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan. You’ve been shipwrecked and are searching for a way to get off this island. You’re doing all of this while discovering the island’s historic mysteries and running from a shadowy group bent […]
Eli Roth’s newest film, The Green Inferno, brings back a horror genre I thought was dead and gone: cannibal films full of gore, irony, and even a little satire. Eli Roth pays homage to Rugerro Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. Even the title of the film is a tribute to this film – the original title for […]
The Visit stars Ed Oxenbould and Olivia DeJonge, who play Tyler and Becca. Tyler and Becca are two kids who go to rural Pennsylvania in order to meet grandparents they have never seen before. Their plan is to turn the whole experience into a documentary. Their grandparents and their mother do not get along. In […]
This started out as a straight up review of the movie Tomorrowland but as I started writing it, I ran into the same problem I had when I tried to review Jupiter Ascending a few months ago. At a certain point a movie becomes so bad that reviewing it becomes almost counter productive. It’s like yelling at a […]
CHAPPiE is a film that is directed by Neil Blomkamp and is actually based on a short film he created, titled Tetra Vaal. CHAPPiE stars Yolandi Visser and Watkin Judor Jones from the South African rap group Die Antwoord. However, there is a cast full of well-known celebrities in this film. This includes Hugh Jackman, […]
“Merida is a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin, surly Lord Macintosh and cantankerous Lord Dingwall. Merida’s actions inadvertently unleash chaos and fury in the kingdom, […]
Ruby Sparks takes a little bit of Weird Science and Stranger Than Fiction, tosses in a healthy dose of the Pygmalion mythology and rolls it all together into what looks to be a richly entertaining romantic comedy. When I first heard about this movie I wasn’t exactly hooked since the basic premise has been visited […]
It seems like ages since we have seen family movies and classic scifi on the big screen in hollywood. But recently that is exactly what has been happening and this Thanksgiving weekend I watched Super 8. Steven Spielberg’s touch is obvious in this movie and thats okay, because he has reached back to the emotional […]
