Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Bernie Stein is a sleazy music agent who decides to (literally) create the next big rock star. With the help of his scientist nephew and a drug addict roadie the trio steal the body parts of deceased rock legends and combine them together to make a creature that they think will be the greatest musician of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Master cake decorater and all-round family man, John (Bub) Morris, has a secret. He likes to hunt and stalk his prey. Woman. REVIEW: Prey is a short film written and directed by Adam Mason (see also Broken, The Devil’s Chair, and Hangman, among others), his second project after his 2001 debut, Dust. This is a short …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young mother, Hannah Filice is murdered, a brutal crime witnessed by her three year old son, Jack the 3rd. The killer tries to block the horror from the little boy’s eyes, and gently carries the toddler from the gory scene. Twenty years later, Jack the 3rd, a grown young man, awakens from the dream, the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple’s relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. REVIEW: Director: Darren Aronofsky Writer: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kristin Wiig, Domhall Gleason, Stephen McHattie I’m a big fan of Darren Aronofsky and his films. Being the writer/director of films like Pi (1998), …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A brother and sister team up against a witch who has been luring the local teens to her house by selling super-strength weed. REVIEW: One of a number of Hansel and Gretel movies that are doing the rounds at the moment, this is a marked improvement on The Asylum’s HANSEL AND GRETEL: WARRIORS OF WITCHCRAFT (reviewed …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Welcome to Monsterland! A terrifying place where savage beasts, carnivorous creatures, and grotesque abominations are the new normal; and the human race is now at the bottom of the food chain. REVIEW: The people that brought you last year’s Zombieworld are back with a new anthology film called Monsterland, and it’s a loosely connected series of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two knights of the crusade are enlisted to transport a suspected witch to a monastery where she will be put on trial for being suspected of bringing the black plague upon the land, killing thousands. But they end up with a lot more than they can handle from the young girl and end up in a …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species. REVIEW: …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “On the tropical island of Wongo, a tribe of beautiful women discover that the other side of the island is inhabited by a tribe of handsome men. They also discover that a tribe of evil ape men live on the island, too, and the ape men are planning a raid on the tribe in order to capture …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Luperca has lost her way. Her powers drained, she lives a mundane existence. A stranger arrives with promises of reviving her former self. In the process, true intentions are revealed and Luperca fights back. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have LUPERCA RETURNS, based on characters created by R.S. Ebert, written by Brennan Scott, and …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Bruce Willis stars in this Sci-Fi thriller about ultimate resort: VICE, where customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look like humans. REVIEW: In the wild and wooly world of tomorrow, synthetic humans have been pretty much banned from all walks of society. Except sleazy CEO Bruce Willis, playing one of his finest …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three American filmmakers become the targets of the evil spirit of the most violent cannibal in recorded history.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators. REVIEW: “Area 407” is the latest arrival in the cinema verite game. In many ways, the film is to the level that I “expected” “Chernobyl Diaries” to be. But as they say, Chernobyl Diaries” didn’t live up …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own. REVIEW: “One thing’s for certain: Patrick never does anything on purpose.” The 1978 thriller, Patrick, was a milestone in Richard Franklin’s cinematic career. Its success allowed for such cult classics as Road Games and Psycho 2, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader Eddie Wilson may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band’s never-released album.