Stop me if you’ve heard this one - a hideously deformed outcast child in a setting with other children falls victim to a cruel prank gone wrong, causing his untimely and unintentional demise! Also, just as if it can’t get any worse, his spirit starts to haunt the orphanage he lived in along with the […]

After Marvel’s success with Superman, the Fantastic Four and the X-men trilogy it was only a matter of time before someone converted the Iron Man comic book into a movie. After all, there’s plenty to do with a guy who can fly, no? You probably wouldn’t guess it, but this movie already has a pretty […]

i’m going to a movie called Expelled tonight, but before i get to that…
what with the impending lapse of mein kampf’s copyright looming over us all, it seems these days that everyone’s clamoring to get on the hitler train. though i have no specific memories of my own to support the following claim, i suspect […]

In the first five minutes of this movie you’re confronted with a full blown sex scene, featuring a pretty Oscar winner, and a bloody murder. Sets the mood quite nicely. Without spoiling anything, the plot goes as following: two brothers urgently need money and plan to rob a jewellery store. Minor detail; the store they […]

Why is it that in every horror movie, cell phones don’t work? They’re trash: no matter where you are, they won’t get a signal! In this case, our main victim here is Angela, an overworked businesswoman that begins her night of stress when her car won’t start. She calls a cab, but she’s locked out […]

The trailers for this film intrigued me. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) is a college professor-cum-FBI forensic psychiatrist who has been thrust into the public eye when his testimony alone convicts Jon Forster (Neal McDonough) as The Seattle Slayer–a serial killer who strung up his female victims before killing them. However, the day before Forster’s […]

Mock-up ©2008 Nate Sjol

I finally got around to seeing No Country For Old Men two nights ago and it’s been haunting me ever since. The cinematography was starkly beautiful, the performances were stunning and the direction was fantastic. I’m still scared that Chigurh is out there, somewhere…
But all morning, I’ve had this idea for a […]

Remember the scene in Creepshow when all of the plants turn evil? Well, combine that with Cabin Fever and you get a movie not unlike The Ruins. It’s one of those movies that you’ve seen the trailer for more than a thousand times in the theater, and […]

In a world where poker is shown on ESPN approximately 200 hours a week, Sony Pictures decides to bring us a blackjack movie.
With math.
And a rocket scientist.
However, last year Warner Bros put out Lucky You which was a pretty forgettable poker film, so maybe it was good to go a different route. And, […]

Supposedly based on a true story, Them tells the story of a tormented couple living in a rural estate somewhere in Romania. Running at 76 minutes, you may think that the film would mostly be occupied with downtime and end abruptly, but however, it paces itself, slowly building it up to the climax of the […]