Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: With instructions from her genius son’s carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather. REVIEW: It’s rare that I get to review a fairly recent film (in this case, made within the last 5 -10 years), and even rarer when it has a cast …
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Film Review: Doctor Sleep (2019)
SYNOPSIS: Years following the events of “The Shining,” a now-adult Dan Torrance meets a young girl with similar powers as he tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knot who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. REVIEW: Full disclosure, The Shining is one of my favorite films ever. It is amazingly shot, has an …
Read More »Film Review: The Predator (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most lethal hunters’ return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race. REVIEW: Let’s be clear, John McTiernan’s Predator is a stone cold classic in genre cinema; A 100 plus minutes of violence, male posturing and …
Read More »Film Review: Shut In (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A heart-pounding thriller about a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever. REVIEW: There are some films that come along in which the whole is clearly greater than the sum of their parts. They …
Read More »Film Review: Before I Wake (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams – and nightmares – manifest physically as he sleeps. REVIEW: Little Cody is a special boy. Sweet but reserved. Eager but cautious. Loving but damaged. Oh, and when Cody sleeps, his dreams spring to life and intersect with the real world in the most amazing and wondrous ways. Most of …
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