Movie Reviews
From 35mm to Super8, from Digital to 3D, be it CGI, green-screen, multiple-exposure or even stop-motion, international, domestic, experimental, controversial, we review it all, with moxie!
The Raven
Review Rating: 7 Edgar Allen Poe teams up with a Baltimore Maryland Police Detective to solve a series of murders based on Poe’s writings! Remember...
Hulk vs. Thor
Review Rating: 7 Once a year Odin has to take a regenerative rest, and this time while he does the treacherous god Loki is plotting to take over...
The Incredible Hulk
Review Rating: 8 Doctor Bruce Banner and his scary alter ego the Hulk face down the army, General Ross and a soldier who underwent the same...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Review Rating: 6 Warning! Spoiler Review! Everyone’s favorite whip cracking fedora-wearing archaeologist adventurer is back, hunting crystal skulls!...
The Dark Knight
Review Rating: 9 out of 10 Everyone’s favorite vigilante with a fetish for bats is back, to battle Gotham’s mobsters, the new anarchist psychopath...
Ice Age 4 Continental Drift
Review Rating: 7 When Pangea begins splitting into different continents, Manny and the males of the absurd herd are separated from Ellie and...
Rings
Review Rating: 7 out of 10 While I know perfectly well that it was the Japanese Ringu movies that started this whole phenomenon and what the...
X-Men First Class
Review Rating: 9 Mutations Young Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, aided by the government and a band of mutants, take on Sebastian Shaw and the...
SDIFF 2013 presents 12 Years A Slave
Review Rating: 7.5 Based on a book written by a black freedman kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his experiences in the late 1800’s. Solomon...
HIFF 2014 presents Hi-8 (Horror Independent 8)
Review Rating: 7.5 Exactly as the program says it is, Hi-8 is an 80’s-style V/H/S-inspired anthology featuring 8 unique horror stories and a...
Pitchfork
Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Newly out of the closet gay boy Hunter Killian (Brian Raetz) returns home to his conservative parents with a van-load of...
I Spit On Your Grave (2010)
Review Rating: 7.5 A remake of the classic 1978 film, wherein writer Jennifer Hills takes to a remote cabin in the woods to do some writing, is...
Disney presents Maleficent
Review Rating: 7 Spoilers are wicked! A fresh take on the origin story of Maleficent, the villainess who lays the curse upon Aurora in the epic...
Get Out
Review Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Spoilers are never just black and white! We know director Jordan Peele, famous for the Key and Peele comedy duo among...
The Dark Tower
Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Spoilers guard the Dark Tower too! To begin, Jake (Tom Taylor) is a kind-of-sort-of-not-really ordinary boy with just one...
IT Chapter 1 (2017)
Review Rating: 8 out of 10 Spoilers hide in the sewers too! Before launching into diatribes about the old versus the new, it behooves us to have a...
Disney presents The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Review Rating: 8 Self-Sweeping Brooms To stop Witch Morgana from being released from her thousand-year-old prison, Balthasar Blake gets himself a...
Pineapple Express
Review Rating: 6 Dale Denton and his drug dealer pal Saul Silver go on a hideout adventure after Dale witnesses a murder while high on weed. I knew...
Green Lantern
Review Rating: 7 Ace pilot and bad boy Hal Jordan is the first human selected to join the Green Lantern corp, an organization of all aliens...
28 Days Later
Review Rating: 8 The UK has been completely overrun by persons infected with a virus called Rage, that turns normal people into zombies with a taste...