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 Haunting in Connecticut
Review Rating: 8 Based on a true story, a family ends up relocating to a new house due to their eldest sons health, only to discover that the place...
Silent Hill 2 Revelation 3D
Review Rating: 7 Sharon is about to turn eighteen and when her father is kidnapped, returns to Silent Hill to confront the nightmares of her...
Grace (2009)
Review Rating: 8 Drink in the Spoilers! After losing her husband in a devastating car crash, a pregnant woman decides to deliver her dead child,...
SDAFF 2013 Zone Pro Site The Movable Feast
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A story of the variances of life, love, cooking and it’s consequences, all wrapped around a contest of “Bandoh”, the...
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...