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Film Review: Winchester (2018)

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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ensconced in her sprawling California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle REVIEW: There are a fair amount of books and movies (see below) featuring houses/buildings that were inspired by the Winchester Mystery House near San Jose, California; however, this film, co-written …

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Film Review: They Might Be Giants (1971)

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Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: “They Might be Giants chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in modern-day New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Doctor Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point. Doctor Watson follows Holmes across Manhattan and is, against her better judgment, drawn …

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Film Review: Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)

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Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood. REVIEW: If your a fan of cinema, horror, and quirky B-grade films, then the name “Roger Corman” should be plenty familiar. His credits deem quite impressive with 100’s of films to his directing name. You would think that life is one …

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Film Review: The Institute (2017)

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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents’ untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost

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Film Review: The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)

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Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Journalists of the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world, such as flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, and violent tornadoes in the Soviet Union. All over England, temperatures are on the rise, girls in bikinis are everywhere, and wonderful special effects mists are blanketing the Thames River. …

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Film Review: Gutterballs 2: Bootleg Edition

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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Written and directed by Ryan Nicholson who previously helmed the first “Gutterballs”, creating the masked killer “BBK” and some of the most shockingly gruesome, seedily explicit sex and death scenes ever created.   REVIEW:  Now here’s something special for fans of the films of Ryan Nicholson (which definitely includes me). We’ve come to expect a few things …

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