Film Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite. REVIEW: Director Martin Scorsese is a directing legend like no other. If there is one thing that arrives …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman recently released from a sanitarium hopes to start a new life in a quiet town with her husband and their mutual friend, only to discover that the world she thought she knew does not exist. Is what is happening really happening? Or is it all in her mind? REVIEW: In the history of cinema, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A documentary following the final days of one of the world’s greatest artists whose nightmarish visions fueled one of Hollywood’s best and most lucrative franchises and catapulted him into immortality. REVIEW: “The dark corners of the human mind are the deepest dark, I believe, of anything in the universe,” once said author, playwright, producer, and director …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A series of stories woven together by one of our most primal fears, the fear of the unknown.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A drunk father is telling his son a bedtime story about a group of people spending the night at a haunted prison, where they all take “Devil’s Acid”. They then start having problems differentiating between reality and the trip. REVIEW: Have you seen The Princess Bride? Did you enjoy the Fred Savage whimsy of its meta …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rogue police officer takes on a serial killer who murders at call REVIEW: You might not know the name Robert Bronzi (Once Upon a Time in Deadwood), but you’ll know his face. In fact, you could argue that you’ve seen his face on someone else. Charles Bronson, to be exact. Yes, since 2017, the Hungarian …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Framed as a lost 1970’s film, Antrum follows a sister and her kid brother as they seek to dig a hole to Hell and rescue the soul of their dog, allowing terrifying supernatural powers to slowly engulf them. REVIEW: Directors: David Amito & Michael Laicini Writers: David Amito (screenplay, story) & Michael Laicini (story) Starring: Nicole …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman in an abusive relationship is abducted, raped, and beaten by a trio of deviants but manages to escape their clutches and seeks refuge at a cabin in the woods that is owned by a suicidal man mourning the loss of his family. Unfortunately, the trio tracks her down and a deadly game of cat …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A gay disabled teenage boy changes into the body of a beautiful woman, so that he can be loved in Pulse, available this June from Dark Star Pictures. Directed by Stevie Cruz-Martin and written by Daniel Monks, this critically acclaimed Australian supernatural drama will compel with its wholly unique storytelling and award-worthy performances. Featuring powerful turns …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Under the tutelage of an eccentric hippie restaurateur and her messianic self-help guru, a young man sets out to master the occult magic of Enceladism in an effort to destroy the cancer that’s killing his partner. REVIEW: Nat is a recovering alcoholic who, at the beginning of “Wretch”, is 30 days sober. A pretty amazing feat …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mi-Jung (Seo Ye-Ji ) is a rookie film director and she has been preparing a horror film for the past 8 years. One day, Mi-Jung hears about a movie which was banned. Mi-Jung wants to know about the film. She begins to search for the movie. Her search takes her to meet Jae-Hyun (Jin Seon-Kyu), who …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Strange, unexplained events unfold at an old factory. Two security guards must come to terms with reality: Tiffany as a future mother, and Joey who is secretly in love with her. But someone has other plans for both as well as Tiffany’s unborn child. REVIEW: I wish I could say that I’ll do my review of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. REVIEW: Il-gon Song’s Spider Forest is moody psychodrama that blurs the lines of reality to a point of completely confusion, never to really untangle them in a satisfying manner. Recently widowed TV producer Kang Min (Woo-seong Kam) wakes up in a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A tale of two foster sisters forced to hunt down a wealthy socialite believed to have infected the elder sibling with vampirism. REVIEW: There are the cinema entries in the horror realm that offer hope in the darkness. There are those that lean heavily toward the bleak and unrelenting aura. There are even genre efforts where …