The House With A Clock In Its Walls, 2018. Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Owen Vaccaro, Lorenza Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Sunny Suljic, and Renée Elise Goldsberry. SYNOPSIS: A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end […]
Movie Review – Assassination Nation (2018)
Assassination Nation, 2018. Directed by Sam Levinson. Starring Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, and Cody Christian. SYNOPSIS: This is a thousand percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem absolutely lost its mind. Fuck me up […]
Movie Review – Lizzie (2018)
Lizzie. 2018. Directed by Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare, and Jamey Sheridan. SYNOPSIS: A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie falsely – in my opinion – bills itself as a “psychological thriller” based on 1892’s famous […]
Second Opinion – Slice (2018)
Slice, 2018. Directed by Austin Vesely. Starring Zazie Beetz, Chance the Rapper, Hannibal Buress, Joe Keery, Chris Parnell, Katherine Cunningham, Paul Scheer, Austin Vesely, Rae Gray, and Kelli Simpkins. SYNOPSIS: When a pizza delivery driver is murdered on the job, the city searches for someone to blame: ghosts? drug dealers? a disgraced werewolf? Austin Vesely’s […]
Second Opinion – Mandy (2018)
Mandy, 2018. Directed by Panos Cosmatos. Starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Ned Dennehy, Linus Roache, Richard Brake and Bill Duke. SYNOPSIS: Mandy is set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where Red Miller, a broken and haunted man hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life. Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy fulfills our […]
Movie Review – Blood Fest (2018)
Blood Fest, 2018. Directed by Owen Egerton. Starring Robbie Kay, Seychelle Gabriel, Tate Donovan, Jacob Batalon, Barbara Dunkelman, Owen Egerton, Nicholas Rutherford, Chris Doubek, and Zachary Levi. SYNOPSIS: Fans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda. As festival […]
Second Opinion – Arizona (2018)
Arizona, 2018. Directed by Jonathan Watson. Starring Danny McBride, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kaitlin Olson, Luke Wilson, David Alan Grier, Lolli Sorenson, and Elizabeth Gillies. SYNOPSIS: Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, this darkly comedic story follows Cassie Fowler, a single mom and struggling realtor whose life goes off the rails when she witnesses a […]
Second Opinion – What Keeps You Alive (2018)
What Keeps You Alive, 2018. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac and Joey Klein. SYNOPSIS: Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive is a beastly hybrid of survivalist and relationship thrills, […]
Movie Review – The Happytime Murders (2018)
The Happytime Murders, 2018. Directed by Brian Henson. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, Joel McHale, Michael McDonald, and Bill Barretta. SYNOPSIS: When the puppet cast of an ’80s children’s TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case. The Happytime […]
Movie Review – Down a Dark Hall (2018)
Down a Dark Hall, 2018. Directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Starring AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Taylor Russell, and Rosie Day. SYNOPSIS: Kit Gordy, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, confronts the institution’s supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress. A “Young Adult” horror fantasy billing Uma […]