Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend. REVIEW: This is a different film from the kind I usually get, and I’m finding it difficult to try and explain it. There are three seperate stories going on at the same time. Each runs parallel …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Syfy Channel offers a 21st-century reboot of the comic book series about the Phantom — “the ghost who walks” — in this action-packed miniseries that stars Ryan Carnes as Kit Walker, the latest in a long line of crime fighters. After his father is killed, Kit travels to Africa and trains to take over his …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Detroit police officer, Alex Murphy, is critically wounded by a criminal mastermind his only hope of survival is the experimental robo-program at OmniCorp led by Dr. Dennett Norton. CEO Raymond Sellars sees Murphy as an opportunity to introduce his “robot soldier” technology to U.S. soil by putting a man into the suit making him a …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this Gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself. The chance discovery of an abandoned dirigible leads Jasper through uncharted waters to an island on which lives a terrifying …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kate Williams inherits her grandmother’s cottage on a remote lake. There, she encounters apparitions that seem to emanate from a submerged church where a congregation drowned over 100 years ago. But there is more than meets the eye… REVIEW: When you watch a film like “The Drowned”, a couple things come to mind. One, you know …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare. REVIEW: This is a fairly decent little thriller surrounding the Troubles that took place in Ireland just a few decades ago. It tells the story of a woman who, acting as part of the …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child might just be real… REVIEW: Comedian Eddie Murphy had a great bit on one his earlier albums in which he described the difference between a white family moving into a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sheitan is a French film about three young men frequenting a night club on Christmas Eve to get into your standard debauchery of drugs and sex. While two of the group of the guys go off to hook up with some girls, the lone member Bart (Bartelemy) gets involved in a drunken trussle and is promptly …

Rate This Movie   SYNOPSIS: A quiet town is jumpstarted by the arrival of an enigmatic family; a statuesque mother named Louisa and her gorgeous teenage sons. Sixteen Year-Old Hilary is working hard to get good grades, hoping to escape the small town life a long line of relatives lived before her. With the arrival of the mysterious family just …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Thomas Capper is an unconventional and mysterious serial killer who takes aim at a Hollywood film set, by unleashing his own brand of retribution on the cast and crew. REVIEW: One of the taglines for this movie was – Boobs and Blood…’Nuff said – and this is pretty much a perfect summary of the film Silent …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a nun, Johnny Frank Garrett has given up on society, faith, and justice. A young man with mental handicaps, he uses his last words and last acts before lethal injection to curse those that worked to put him to death. REVIEW: Director: Simon Rumley Starring: Mike …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A brilliant billionaire named Carl Durant is experimenting on bull sharks, which soon rebel to cause havoc for a group of scientists. REVIEW: Once in a while, it is so refreshing to get a sequel that basically re-affirms your faith that Hollywood isn’t a factory peddling shams and breaking dreams in a quest for the almighty …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Six famous b-movie scream queens find themselves the target of a sick fan’s obsession with their films. One by one, they are kidnapped and forced to recreate the biggest death scenes of their career. Except this time, their very lives are on the line. REVIEW: Full Moon Studios producer-director Charles Band returns to the horror spotlight …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death. REVIEW: From the years 1988 to 1994, you’d have been hard pressed to find a more disturbing, yet artistic, filmmaker than Jorg Buttgereit. In just six years, the man released some of the most depressing, moody, and …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public. Another film featuring the stop-action special effects talents of Ray Harryhausen. REVIEW: Having come off of …