SYNOPSIS: A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma. He then resurrects his charismatic childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope, not realizing how dangerous Daniel is. REVIEW: When you open your film with an apparent Hitchcock homage complete with Bernard Herrmann-inspired music, you are either attempting to evoke a mood or swaggering with some brass in …
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Film Review: Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)
SYNOPSIS: “Troubled college freshman Luke (Robbins) suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind — and his soul.” REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: The Visit (2015)
SYNOPSIS: A single mother finds that things in her family’s life goes very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents. REVIEW: It’s patently impossible to write about any M. Night Shyamalan film without discussing his habit of adding a nifty (or not so nifty), twist of some sort to the endings of nearly all of them (The Last …
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