M. Night Shyamalan’s latest grows up way too fast. I caught M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller “Old” at a private screening with some of my new friends, and most of them were laughing and heckling at the screen. It was… Read More ›
Horror
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
Great looking sets are upstaged by the sequel’s losing streak. “When a horror movie gets campy, you know it’s an obvious bad idea to start a sequel” is how I began my review of the original “Escape Room,” which was… Read More ›
The Forever Purge
The final chapter of this murdering franchise fights the power. Let me give you the scoop on “The Purge” franchise. Once a year for 12 hours, all crime including murder is legal. This was a way for the world to… Read More ›
Werewolves Within
Sam Richardson and the gang howl up some laughs in this Indie take on a video game. It’s not often I see an independent film based on a video game, and it’s not often I see one so smart and… Read More ›
False Positive
Ilana Glazer glows, while the script has morning sickness. “False Positive” is probably the first movie I’ve seen to replicate “Rosemary’s Baby” since “The Devil Inside” back in 2014. Let me make a clear distinction here. “Rosemary’s Baby” is a… Read More ›
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
This threequel has been possessed by money demons. In this “Conjuring” universe, I was only a fan of the first two movies with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson playing paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren, because of their dangerous and… Read More ›
The Conjuring 1 & 2
To prepare you for #3, these reviews of the first two are from me. “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” the third chapter of the franchise, starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, premieres in theaters and on HBO… Read More ›
A Quiet Place: Part II
As entertaining as the original, but with more noise and risks. Spoiler Alert: This is my 1000th post on my website! “A Quiet Place,” written and directed by John Krasinski, was a big hit in 2018, and it was meant… Read More ›
Spiral
Not even Chris Rock can save this torture porn genre. Between 2004 and 2010, the “Saw” franchise has been a Halloween tradition with guilty people being tortured by a figure by the alias Jigsaw. In 2017, they made another one… Read More ›
Army of the Dead
This zombie heist movie rolls the dice and has fun doing so. I did an article yesterday about the original “Dawn of the Dead” and the remake directed by Zack Snyder, since “Army of the Dead” is the first zombie… Read More ›