Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A Vietnam veteran who becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the police show little interest in solving the crime. REVIEW: Danny Trejo doing what he does best…kicking ass! While the film keeps to the classic Bronson style …
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Film Review: Secret Window (2004)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for “justice.” REVIEW: Directors: David Koepp Writers: David Koepp (screenplay), Stephen King (short story) Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton Secret Window is a wonderful throwback mystery thriller, and writer/director David Koepp’s homage to Hitchcock-ian …
Read More »Film Review: Mimic (1997)
SYNOPSIS: “A virulent new disease is killing the children of Manhattan and has reached epidemic proportions. Peter Mann in desperation asks the entomologist, Doctor Susan Tyler, if she can help by killing the disease carrier, the common cockroach. Susan genetically engineers a new species of predatory insect to exterminate the cockroach and then die off. This novel solution works and …
Read More »Film Review: The Monkey’s Paw (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Jake is given a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes. After the first two wishes leave his friend Cobb undead, Cobb pushes Jake to make a final wish. REVIEW: Presented as more of a sequel to the short story by W.W. Jacobs rather than as a straight up re-telling, director Brett Simmons has hit a solid double with …
Read More »Film Review: Gothika (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done. REVIEW: All of the right ingredients are present in the movie Gothika, making it a treat for any lover of thrillers or horrors. We’ve got a …
Read More »Film Review: Legion (2010)
SYNOPSIS: An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael (Bettany). REVIEW: Legion, another one bred from the “war in …
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