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Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper. REVIEW: From Hell is a 2001 movie that tells the story of the Jack the Ripper murders. The film is loosely based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell and follows the character of Fredrick Abberline as the …

SYNOPSIS: When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an oddball ex-cop to look for him. REVIEW: As I was watching Kevin Smith’s latest film, Tusk, I began to wonder who came onto the Hollywood scene first: Smith or Quentin …

SYNOPSIS: A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas and spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released because DNA evidence proved their innocence REVIEW: Starring: Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Damien Echols, Johnny Depp, Natalie Maines, Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky and Eddie Vedder Directed by: Joe …

Fifty years from now, 2016 will be remembered as a outstanding year for horror films in general. There were some sizable horror hits at the box office this year, and while not all of the bigger hits were especially good films, it’s never a bad thing if the genre you’re particular to has a good year. But I’m not here …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises to the audiences a journey to the “Imaginarium”, an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, to the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have more than …

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 …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS:  An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. REVIEW: Sadly I am old enough to remember watching “Dark Shadows” when it originally aired on daytime TV. I wasn’t a real fan of it but my mother was & I would …

SYNOPSIS: “A kind inventor is almost finished piecing together his latest creation when fate prevents him from completing his most important project. Edward may seem dangerous, with scissors instead of hands, but when a compassionate Avon lady comes calling, it’s clear that things are going to be changing for him after having been alone in the large empty mansion. What …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened, on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on a secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. REVIEW:  From the looks of the crowds gathering during premiere weekend, this one is sure to be a money maker…not to mention the fact …

Even viewers who claimed to despise soap operas could find a soft spot in their heart for Dark Shadows, television’s first unequalled great ‘ghost opera’. In part, this soapie had others beat because, if a character was killed off, there was no need to concoct a lengthy explanation to justify their return – they would just come back as a …

SYNOPSIS: Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain and his crew. REVIEW: Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg also directed Kon-Tiki (2012) together before they directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which was released overseas as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge.  Joachim Rønning is currently …

SYNOPSIS: “William Turner, a resourceful young blacksmith, teams up with the eccentric pirate ‘Captain’ Jack Sparrow to save his love, the Governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, who has been mistakenly captured by the clever and treacherous Barbossa, a former ally of Jack, to make a blood sacrifice so as to end the curse that has been cast upon him and his …

SYNOPSIS: A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones. REVIEW: While it might seem that the draw to this curious film is the A-lister Johnny Depp, it’s root of interest lies within the director himself Roman Polanski who many on us flocked to see based …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Years after being burned alive by a mob of angry parents, child murderer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) returns to haunt the dreams — and reality — of local teenagers in Wes Craven’s spine-chilling slasher classic. As the town’s teens begin dropping like flies, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp, in his big-screen debut), …