Tag Archives: Jake Gyllenhaal

SYNOPSIS: When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

SYNOPSIS: A supernatural force sets out to exact revenge against art profiteers attempting to exploit a series of paintings by an unknown artist. REVIEW: At the risk of going too far out on a limb, let me start this review with a statement: “Velvet Buzzsaw” is not a horror movie. I know a good number of people will argue that …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. REVIEW: We’ve all seen the title card before.  Looming ominously on the silver screen, rarely ever a harbinger of the latest feel-good romcom.  In fact, “Based on a true story” (or some interchangeable variation) is usually an indication that there will be murder …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran. REVIEW: The all American dream kills. A man/woman’s quest to succeed coming from …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist for NORAD, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age. REVIEW: The era of cataclysm films was ramping up with a 2012 date quickly approaching. “The Day After Tomorrow” was one of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. REVIEW: Spider-Man: Far From Home (FFH) starts a little while after the events of Avengers:Endgame. While society mourns the passing of heroes, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) feels the pressure bearing down on him …

SYNOPSIS: High school student Donnie Darko survives a bike accident and is suddenly thrust into visions of the world he has never seen before and begins to question his own sanity when a man named Frank appears to him dressed in a maniacal rabbit costume, and questions about love, identity and time travel begin to concern him.

SYNOPSIS: A team of six scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. REVIEW: Director: Daniel Espinosa Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya The story of having a malicious alien loose on a spaceship …

SYNOPSIS: A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form, that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth. REVIEW: Life was a film that limped into theatres, rather than one which kicked the door down and demanded we all take notice. Its faltering movements perhaps brought on …

SYNOPSIS: An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. REVIEW: Colter Stevens wakes up in a train heading on a destination he doesn’t recognize, in a body that isn’t his and talking to a girlfriend …

Had your fill of supernatural horror? How about a little real world terror? A new flick for Warner Bros. is heading our way this fall and it stars some heavy hitters and tells a pretty scary tale. It’s titled PRISONERS and here is what it is all about: PRISONERS, from Oscar®-nominated director Denis Villeneuve, stars Oscar® nominees Hugh Jackman and …