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Written by ScreenPhilesMarch 20, 2021

REview: The Retreat (2020) | Interesting Premise, Not Very Well Told

Have you ever seen a movie that you felt you should like, a movie that has all the elements that you tend to enjoy, only to grudgingly come to the conclusion that – when you’re being honest with yourself – that you didn’t like it nearly as much as you’d thought you would? That was […]

Written by ScreenPhilesMarch 15, 2021March 14, 2021

Review: A Dark Path (2021) | Here Monsters (Sorta? Kinda?) Lie

A Dark Path is a bit of an odd duck. On one hand, it’s clearly a horror movie. The poster looks like it’s promoting a horror movie. The tag line “The Last Noise You’ll Hear Is Your Own Scream” is very Alien-ish, so once again, horror. The movie itself? Not so much. In fact it’s […]

Written by ScreenPhilesMarch 5, 2021

Trailer Into REaction: The Seventh Day (2021) | Official Trailer

Exorcism movies are like the Law & Order of the horror world: The locales may change, the people may differ, but really they’re all the same. And speaking of exorcism-based horror, it’s almost as if William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) were the defining, only movie of the ilk worth considering as a serious movie, which […]

Written by ScreenPhilesMarch 2, 2021

REview: Judas And The Black Messiah (2021) | The Past Never Stays Buried For Long

Chaka King’s Judas And The Black Messiah is the type of movie that I tend to avoid (because relatively early on I realized that I believed that what I was seeing wasn’t truth, but an interpretation of truth. In other words, an untruth (to call such depictions a “lie” is in most instances too mean-spirited […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 25, 2021

Trailer Into REaction: Army Of The Dead (2021) | Teaser Trailer

I’m just going to put it out there: I don’t think Zach Snyder can tell a story to save his life, which is all the more interesting since he’s been making a living as a feature-film director (who’s entire job is telling stories) for quite awhile now, after leaving the world of commercials and music […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 18, 2021

Trailer Into REaction: Boss Level (2021) | Official Trailer

I recently canceled by subscription to Hulu, mainly because between free Tubi, Netflix and Amazon it felt like a bit of an also-ran (I had the tier with commercials because even at that point the value proposition never quite worked for me). It goes without saying that literally the day I cancel my subscription I […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 16, 2021February 16, 2021

REview: Synchronic (2019) | Moorhead & Benson’s Attempt At The Mainstream (Mainly) Works

I’ve always been interested in quirky and idiosyncratic movie directors – though not always their personal lives – people that no matter what they’re doing bring their own distinct flavor and point of view to the project. That’s the case with artists (not a word I throw around lightly. Just because you’re a director doesn’t […]

Written by ScreenPhilesFebruary 8, 2021

Trailer Into REaction: Cosmic Sin (2021) | Official Trailer

Bruce Willis isn’t a bad actor – he starred in Die Hard for Heaven’s sake! – but the thing is lately he doesn’t appear to particularly…care. And don’t interpret that to mean that he’s just “phoning it in” because that at least takes an actor to be in the moment and just choose not give […]

Written by ScreenPhilesJanuary 25, 2021January 26, 2021

REview: The Empty Man (2020) | James Badge Dale Deserves Most of the Credit

As I say in the header, James Badge Dale deserves a huge amount of the credit for David Prior’s The Empty Man being as good as it is. He’s not only charismatic, but the type of actor that seems to vanish into a role, as opposed to being of the preening, attention-grabbing variety. Though the […]

Written by ScreenPhilesJanuary 16, 2021

REview: Don’t Tell A Soul (2020) | The Ties That Bind Can Also Destroy

I received an invite from Dread Central to catch an early release of Alex McAulay’s Don’t Tell A Soul, which I went into it blind. I’m not sure why I did though I’m really glad that I did because after having seen it, if someone called it a “masterpiece” I could understand where they were […]

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