SYNOPSIS: A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues — though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change. REVIEW: The line between sanity and madness is a thin one. Only sixty years ago the treatment for mental ‘illnesses’ such as homosexuality and …
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Film Review: Species (1995)
SYNOPSIS: A message from outer space contains instructions on how to modify human DNA. REVIEW: “Species” is a hard film to be ambivalent about for many people. It’s been my experience that whenever I mention Species in some circles that I usually get a “Oh God that movie sucked.” or I get “Damn, that movie was so awesome! That Sil …
Read More »Film Review: Iron Man 3 (2013) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “The events of Loki’s attack on New York City has left Tony Stark a completely changed man. Now saddled with a severe case of insomnia and post traumatic stress disorder, Tony spends his sleepless nights the only way he knows how – coming up with new prototypes for the Iron Man suit. But now new events require that Tony …
Read More »Film Review: A Sound of Thunder (2005)
SYNOPSIS: When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways. REVIEW: There has a been a pretty decent amount of films made about time. After all, time is one of the great mysteries that still fascinate us to this day. The …
Read More »Film Review: Robot Overlords (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Alien Robots have taken over the world while most adults cower in their homes and follow orders. A plucky band of teens accidentally discover a low tech countermeasure to the Robots’ control and vengeance is theirs!
Read More »Film Review: Hugo (2011)
SYNOPSIS: “Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mechanical man) …
Read More »Film Review: The Walk (2015)
SYNOPSIS: In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. REVIEW: I can’t think of alot of things in life scarier than trying to walk across the Twin Towers on a wire. In this 2015 film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the …
Read More »Film Review: Bloodrayne (2005)
SYNOPSIS: In the Eighteenth Century, Rayne is the half-human half-vampire Dhampir and the lead attraction in a carnival’s freak-show in Romania. When she escapes, she meets a fortuneteller that tells that her mother was raped by the king of the vampires Kagan and she decides to destroy her father. In her journey for revenge, she meets Vladimir and Sebastian, the …
Read More »Film Review: Ender’s Game (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Seventy years after an invasion of Earth by an alien race known as Formics, young Ender Wiggin may be the human race’s last hope for survival. One man, Mazer Rackham, stopped the invasion years ago, now Ender trains under the guidance of Colonel Graff to lead the fleet in an offensive strategy to prevent another attack. This is Ender’s …
Read More »Film Review: Iron Man 3 (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Tony Stark, still dealing with the affects of his adventures in New York with the Avengers, now faces a super villain terrorist called The Mandarin who attacks not only everything Tony owns but everything he is. Stripped of his belongings and his self confidence with only an all-but-destroyed set of Iron Man armor at his disposal and with his …
Read More »Film Review: Slipstream (1989)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “In the future, natural disasters (earthquakes, floods) have ravaged the Earth, leaving the Earth as a world where pockets of communities live within canyons whilst a violent wind known as the Slipstream rules the Earth and the only means of transport are airplanes. Matt Owens is a daredevil adventurer who kidnaps Byron, a fugitive wanted for murder, …
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