Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. REVIEW: William Brent Bell (Stay Alive, The Boy, The Devil Inside) directed Orphan: First Kill, and it was written by David Coggeshall, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, and Alex Mace. I have faith in William …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six years ago, Li Ronan was cursed after breaking a religious taboo. Now, she must protect her daughter from the consequences of her actions. REVIEW: Ever since the release of The Blair Witch Project in 1999, the horror genre has been inundated with found footage films. While many thought (and probably hoped) that this sub-genre would …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother. REVIEW: Sandra Oh stars in a middle of the road ghost story by Iris K. Shim. The melancholic story of mothers …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Several months after her sister is murdered, a young woman, her other sister, and some of their friends go on a sea diving trip only to attract the attention of a hungry shark who wants to gobble them all up.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Inès (45) may have behaved like a model employee in her business selling cleaning products, but she was never recognized or paid properly. Under the blasé gaze of Mélody, the young trainee, she decides to ask Patrick, her boss, for her first raise. But the situation gets out of hand, Mélody tries to intercede; Patrick ends …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Alison, an aspiring architect, spends her evenings trying to make ends meet as a ride-share driver. While wrapping up her shift, she decides to take on one last passenger – only to find herself in unexpected danger when she discovers the mysterious stranger is not whom he appears to be. Alison is cajoled into taking the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: RESURRECTION which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Margaret (Rebecca Hall) leads a successful and orderly life, perfectly balancing the demands of her busy career and single parenthood to her fiercely independent daughter Abbie. Everything is under control. But that careful balance is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past, David (Tim …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of artist’s lives become unwittingly entangled as their obsessions and insecurities manifest monsters, demons and death. REVIEW: The movie just started, and I feel the disturbance… Allegoria was directed and written by Spider One. The film opens with John Ennis delivering one hell of an acting performance. He’s portraying Robert Anderson Wright. He’s one …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness. REVIEW: No one likes to be involved in an awkward situation, but everyone likes to witness it. However, in “Speak No …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life. REVIEW: What happens when the horror-comedy subgenre meets the found footage style involving ghosts? An amusing cross …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned…with someone or something new on-board. REVIEW: It’s quite possible that Event Horizon may be among one of the most chilling films ever created. Then again the backlash from critics and sci fi horror fans complaining of plot holes, fragmented story …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Will, a young Hispanic gay potter, is one gregarious guy. His boss is terrible, but he’s got a great boyfriend and a great job. Unfortunately, behind that veneer is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is desperate to keep hidden. When his bipolar mother comes out of the woodwork after ten years …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. REVIEW: “Crimes of the Future” is the latest creation from visionary David Cronenberg in over 8 years. It arrives during a time of change and uncertainty …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Follows Roscoe, a seedy motel maintenance man, after discovering some powerful hallucinogenic worms he meets Benny, They fall in love making worms together before embarking on an odyssey of sex and violence. REVIEW: Everyone wants to feel good. Some get their high from working out; others from eating their favorite foods. Then again, some literally get …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of high school cheerleaders and football players are terrorized by their school’s homicidal mascot after the death of a classmate. REVIEW: I thought that Varsity Blood sounded like it might be a fun little movie when I first heard about it so I went into it with high hopes. The premise sounded like a …