Mike Flanagan who is famous for his horror movies adapts a story from Stephen King who is famous for his horror novels but it isn't horror. The Life of Chuck is a film broken down into three parts cou...

Part The Sentinel (1977), part The Beyond (1981), part Flatliners (1990), part The Descent (2005) and with a little Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) tossed in, As Above, So Below is a lot of ...

The Running Man seemed to be a great fit for the Edgar Wright treatment. A movie about a man competing for his life in a violent nationwide gameshow has all kinds of opportunities for him to bring his...

Shivers is early Cronenberg where the body horror, provocative subject matter and shocking scenarios are all present but the pacing, direction, acting and story are amateurish. The premise is of a doc...

Eddington begins with Joaquin Phoenix as a sheriff sitting alone in his parked vehicle eating a sandwich. Up pulls two cops from the neighboring Native American reservation demanding he mask up. We ar...

The word “painterly” is the best descriptor for the visuals in 12 Years a Slave. The muted earth tones in both the costuming and the grading of the film easily draws to mind brushstrokes. Although by ...

M3GAN was a sort of Chuckie movie with A.I. instead of the soul of a mass murderer. That’s a solid premise for a pop horror flick. The doll that took its mission to protect its child too far did a cre...

Cuando en el cielo pasen lista is a by-the-numbers recounting of a real guy from Argentina named William Case Morris who helped orphaned and troubled young boys learn to be good men. Similar to Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (1938) and Bing Crosby The Bells of St. Mary’s (1944), the protagonist is an infinitely patient man who treats boys who aren’t used to a fair shake with kindness and understanding. Then he dies with a legacy of multiple schools with thousands of boys. He walks off into heaven while the hymn “Cuando en el cielo pasen lista” (When They Call

Aguirre: the Wrath of God begins with a fake handwritten text alerting the audience that what we’re about to see is from the diary of the last survivor of an expedition of Spanish conquistadors to Per...

I'm not a fan of the John Wick films. I call them "Active Shooter: The Movie." My guess is that someone watched that scene from The Matrix where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss shoot up a lobby on t...

I mean, you know if this is going to be your thing or not. Guillermo has a very distinctive style and themes he returns to again and again. The monstrous loner yearning for a way to connect with human...

Now that we have some distance from the horrific events of 911, a rewatch of Kathryn Bigelow's brilliant film about the hunt, eventual location and killing of Osama bin Laden reveals some interesting ...

This is a short film about a vampire nurse. That is, a nurse who is also a vampire. There’s a surprising amount of information imparted in the 17 minute runtime. Our vampire nurse uses her powers to h...

Guilty Bystander is about an alcoholic private detective who learns his son has been kidnapped from his estranged wife. He tries to sober up as we follow him through this procedural but he is thwarted...

An errant missile of mysterious origin pops up onto military sensors with an impact in less than eight minutes and we see how different levels of American intelligence handles this news. From the sold...

Terror in a Texas Town begins with the money shot: the familiar quick draw shootout in the town square with a man in black in the foreground, hand itching to draw his gun. In the background is his opp...

We’ll have to file KPop Demon Hunters under “Not For Me.” That doesn’t mean I can’t recognize that it’s good. I’ve never been a fan of boy bands and this wave of Korean vocal ensembles with their over...

Made during Disney’s darker period that also spawned The Black Hole, Something Wicked This Way Comes is an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story about an evil carnival that grants your wildest wish and t...

Horror film about a woman traveling solo to a coastal California town looking for her estranged artist father and arriving during an evil centennial blood moon situation. Messiah of Evil lost funding ...

Hot Saturday is one of the movies I watched from a pre-Hays Code set of DVDs from Universal Studios. It’s the story of an unmarried career woman played by Nancy Carroll who has to politely rebuff adva...

There’s a Philip K. Dick riff on identity and reality underlying the stylish cyberpunk feast for the eyes that is The Matrix. And that style isn’t just slo-mo and Bullet Time. There is some genuinely ...