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 [...]

Horror-comedy is a hard genre. It can fail much more likely than normal comedy or normal horror. Many try, many fail. Fortunately, we have the genre done right, with movies like Shaun of the Dead or Fido. Basically Fido proves that you can add zombies to almost anything and it will produce [...]

Judd Apatow seems to have a Midas Touch when it comes to comedy. Whether it’s directing (The 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up), writing (Fun With Dick and Jane and Walk Hard) or producing (Superbad, Anchorman and the TV series Freaks and Geeks) he never misses. In fact, the “worst” movies/TV shows [...]

Above, is a trailer for a film due out this fall (The Duchess), a period film all about some fashionista–the Duchess of Devonshire–who I’ve never heard of. It feels like Marie Antionette without the cool soundtrack. The trailer goes to great lengths to hide the identity of the Duchess, as the narrator describes [...]