Slaughterhouse Rulez. 2019. Directed by Crispian Mills. Starring Asa Butterfield, Michael Sheen, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Jo Hartley, Jamie Blackley, Tom Rhys Harries, and Margot Robbie. SYNOPSIS: An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror. Simon Pegg […]
Movie Review – Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, 2019. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, and Suki Waterhouse. SYNOPSIS: In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective. When a friend asked me to […]
Movie Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Josh Hamilton, Daniel Zolghadri, Elsie Fisher, and Emily Robinson. SYNOPSIS: A teenager tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth-grade year before leaving to start high school. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade earns a place at the kiddie’s table with Felix Thompson’s King Jack. Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ The Kings Of […]
Movie Review – The Silence (2019)
The Silence, 2019. Directed by John R. Leonetti. Starring Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, Miranda Otto, Kate Trotter, Kyle Breitkopf, John Corbett, and Billy MacLellan. SYNOPSIS: When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews, who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek […]
Movie Review – Thriller (2019)
Thriller. 2019. Directed by Dallas Jackson. Starring Jessica Allain, Mitchell Edwards, Maestro Harrell, Paige Hurd, Chauncey Jenkins, Michael Ocampo, Chelsea Rendon, Tequan Richmond, RZA, Pepi Sonuga, Luke Tennie, Mykelti Williamson, and Jason Woods. SYNOPSIS: A childhood prank comes back to haunt a clique of South Central Los Angeles teens when their victim returns home during […]
Second Opinion – The Wind (2019)
The Wind. 2019. Directed by Emma Tammi. Starring Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Dylan McTee, Martin C Patterson, and Ashley Zukerman. SYNOPSIS: A plains-woman faces the harshness and isolation of the untamed land in the Western frontier of the late 1800s. Even if The Wind isn’t a stealth sequel to 90s trashterpiece Demon Wind – […]
Movie Review – The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
The Haunting of Sharon Tate, 2019. Directed by Daniel Farrands. Starring Hilary Duff, Jonathan Bennett, Lydia Hearst, Pawel Szajda, Ryan Cargill, Bella Popa, Fivel Stewart, Tyler Johnson, and Ben Mellish. SYNOPSIS: Pregnant with director Roman Polanski’s child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent […]
Movie Review – Mercy Black (2019)
Mercy Black, 2019. Directed by Owen Egerton. Starring Janeane Garofalo, Daniella Pineda, Elle LaMont, Miles Emmons, Dylan Gage, Austin Amelio, Lee Eddy, Rochelle Robinson, and Jessie Tilton. SYNOPSIS: Marina is haunted by what she has done and the phantom she imagined. Though she would rather leave the past buried, her nephew becomes increasingly obsessed with […]
Movie Review – The Field Guide To Evil (2019)
The Field Guide To Evil. 2019. Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, and Yannis Veslemes. Starring Birgit Minichmayr, Sarah Navratil, Claude Duhamel, Jilon VanOver, Vangelis Mourikis, Thomas Schubert, Niharika Singh, and Kannon Hicks. SYNOPSIS: A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, […]
Movie Review – Dumbo (2019)
Dumbo, 2019. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins, Nico Parker, Sandy Martin, Joseph Gatt, Deobia Oparei, Roshan Seth, Lars Eidinger, Zenaida Alcalde, Douglas Reith, Phil Zimmerman, Miguel Muñoz Segura, Sharon Rooney, Michael Buffer, and Alan Arkin. SYNOPSIS: A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to […]