I fully expect that this review will serve as a ringing endorsement for some. Perhaps I am the wrong audience for a film like this, or perhaps I am over-analyzing. One thing is for sure, however. I’ve had more than a few bad nights of sleep because of this film.… Continue reading
The “real world” is a term that I believe to be overused. I heard it all through college. “When you get out into the real world, things won’t be so easy,” my parents and other family friends would say. They would be right, but we were all referring to the… Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Black Woman is two different movies in one, with neither working particularly well. On one hand we have a ridiculously heavy-handed drama involving a woman, her rich, abusive husband, and the morally flawless man who wants to be her “knight in shining armor.” Yes, that line… Continue reading
As long as director Uwe Boll is given money to make films, we are guaranteed at least one unintentionally uproarious gut-buster a year. In the case of this year, good old Mr. Boll will be reigning down a second film on us this fall: Bloodrayne. If it’s somehow twice as… Continue reading
Now here is one grisly item. Saw is the perfect retaliation to the recent onslaught of PG-13 fluff horror flicks, and will probably amount to being the most sick and disturbing film of the year. The premise is simple, but effective. Two strangers, Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Elwes) and Adam (Whannell),… Continue reading
Open Water presents a scenario that taps into one of my deepest fears, and probably one that encapsulates most others as well. The feelings of abandonment and hopelessness presented in the film rattled me to the bone, as did this film on the whole. Daniel (Travis) and Susan (Ryan) are… Continue reading
Commando. That’s what I kept thinking about during The Punisher, the newest arrival off the comic book adaptation factory belt. You know, the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger action-fest where he has to rescue little Alissa Milano from the bad guys. The difference is that Commando knew it was bad. The Punisher… Continue reading