“”Mine Games” Is A Well-Done Thriller That Doesn’t Overstay It’s Welcome.” Mind Games is a pretty savory bit of murder and seemingly random violence that from the start drops hints designed to lead you in one direction, while the narrative heads in another. It’s a pretty clever movie in other ways as well. For instance, […]
I know that I have written on the reboot of the The Town That Dreaded Sundown before, but since the original has just turned up on Netflix, I though I’d throw something together. If you’re into horror movies, it’s worth checking out because it’s a pretty good movie, though another reason is that if you intend […]
“Fetching Cody Is An Unconventional Story About How Far One Man Is Willing To Go For Love.” I tend to enjoy movies about time travel, which I have to admit that I like because I find it interesting the way filmmakers often try to fudge the (theoretical) science. I have also come to notice that there are […]
“Lawrence Fishburne Is The Best Thing In A Feature You Probably Already Seen In Other Movies.” I have been wanting to see The Colony every since I saw its trailer on YouTube four or five months ago, so naturally I was jazzed to learn that it’s on Netflix. It takes place in an indeterminate future, where we have built […]
Considering how ISIS (the International Secret Intelligence Service)–not the terrorist organization currently in vogue–seemingly did everything they could undermine their own efforts, they hardly needed help from outside. Or inside, for that matter. That being said, I feel reasonably certain that there there was someone within ISIS doing just that. Perhaps they were too caught up in their […]
“After The Dark Is A Visually Beautiful Movie, Undermined By Needless Pretense.” I actually saw John Huddles’ After The Dark four or five months ago before it turned up on Netflix, and it bothered me then, and it continues to do so (though it’s taken me awhile to understand why). Though I think I finally figured it […]
The Social Redroom is a fictitious social networking site that’s similar to others that you may already be familiar to, like Facebook. And like Facebook, The Social Redroom (which coincidentally(?) reminds me of ‘redrum;’ ‘murder’ spelled backwards) also does experiments on its users without their knowledege, all in an effort to find what it is that makes […]
Significantly Less Innovative Than Boyhood, But In Its Way A Better Movie I watched Roberto Faenza‘s Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You a few days ago, and was reminded of another movie that revolved around a young person growing up, Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood. Though the thing is, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You was […]
Seeing The Women That Turn Up On British Television, I Think I Better Understand The Culture That Produced Margaret Thatcher I don’t know what’s in British water, but they have a knack for creating engaging, dynamic female characters for television. For me one of the best is Supt. Jane Tennison (Hellen Mirren) from multiple seasons of Prime Suspect. After Tennison […]
Some Memories, And Coma Patients, Are Best Left Alone Mark Hartley‘s Patrick, is currently on Netflix, and is surprisingly a engaging little horror film (before it jumps the rails, that is). I was expecting something silly, on the level of an Asylum feature, it was actually pretty engaging, before the aforementioned rail jumping. Charles Dance brought a much needed […]
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