≡ Category: Action, Horror, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Alex Turner
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You can’t accuse Dead Birds of being unoriginal.
How many horror movies about Confederate bank robbers holed up in a haunted antebellum mansion can you recall?
It’s a good premise. There’s the potential for action (pursuing lawmen, internecine squabbles over the gold) and the […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here we have the first season of Dexter I can’t fully recommend. Huge fans of the series will probably still want to check it out, but it’s just not very good.
The fault isn’t the actors. Michael C. Hall negotiates the contours of the […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Most remakes are an exercise in futility. Usually, the originals were just fine to begin with. Most of the time, the filmmakers have no real reason to make the film. Nine times out of ten, it’s a matter of simple economics. There’s an […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Horror, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Horror/ Action/ Comedy
Director: David R. Ellis
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I suppose I should say a few words about the plot of The Final Destination, although it’s the same as every other Final Destination flick. Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition about a large scale disaster, freaks out and pulls away […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Most movies date poorly. Go back to the early 70s and try to watch a film like, oh, I dunno, Prime Cut with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin. It can be tough sledding.
On the other hand, modern audiences can still enjoy Citizen Kane, […]
≡ Category: Action, Mainstream, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How interesting. It’s only been a few days since I saw 1988’s Edge Of Darkness, an otherwise sterling flick that loses some power because it trades in cliches that were newly minted at the time.
And now we have Brooklyn’s Finest, a picture that […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Quentin Tarantino, however much he might like to think so, has never been much of a visual stylist, but that changes, hopefully for good, with Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino’s latest, remarkably disciplined feature.
Yes, Tarantino uses more typefaces than is absolutely necessary, but that’s the […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Mainstream, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Pacific Heights plays like a yuppie horror story.
Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) decide to invest in a Victorian in Pacific Heights. They’re overextended financially, but they figure they’ll make up the difference by renting out the two […]
≡ Category: Essential, Fantasy, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Fantasy/ Suspense
Director: George Nolfi
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
It’s difficult to come up with more than a handful of movies that explore the relationship between (the Christian) God’s omnipotence, his plan, free will, and the problem of evil. There’s Bruce Almighty, but it mostly functions as an Christian apologia, a way […]
≡ Category: Action, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: James B. Harris
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The novel that Cop is based on, James Ellroy’s Blood On The Moon, is a surrealistic wallow in depravity, like all of Ellroy’s books. I didn’t believe in the protagonist, Lloyd Hopkins, for a second, but it didn’t matter. Blood On The Moon […]
