web analytics
Home | Tag Archives: Stephen Root

Tag Archives: Stephen Root

Film Review: Get Out (2017)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young African American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s cursed family estate. REVIEW: A brilliant new thriller/horror mystery in itself, “Get Out” is surprisingly clever movie directed by Jordan Peele (of Key and Peele comedy series fame). Peele hits the ground running with a fantastic directorial/ writing debut that pushes the envelope and taboo of modern …

Read More »

Film Review: Monkey Shines (1988)

SYNOPSIS: A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master. REVIEW: Directed by George Romero and based on the book by Michael Stewart, Monkey Shines was made in 1988. It tells the story of a disabled man who takes on a trained monkey …

Read More »

Film Review: Sweetwater (2013)

SYNOPSIS: In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory. REVIEW: I never know what to expect when taking on a Western for review. There of course are those films that are “true” Westerns with the usual gunfights, law men, …

Read More »