Sinister Review
Sinister unleashed a truly terrifying promotional campaign that highlighted some of its more impactful frights, but kept enough under wraps to deliver 110 minutes of continuous tension and terror.
Sinister unleashed a truly terrifying promotional campaign that highlighted some of its more impactful frights, but kept enough under wraps to deliver 110 minutes of continuous tension and terror.
For what’s supposed to be 90 minutes of skewering the ridiculousness of small town America, Butter doesn’t have much of an edge, and with a cast this talented, the film has no excuse to fall as short as it does.
In the marketing for Seven Psychopaths, CBS Films wants you to count the film’s seven stars, but the one real psychopath that matters is writer and director Martin McDonagh, whose follow-up to In Bruges is a cockeyed stroke of genius.
Frankenweenie is Tim Burton’s strongest effort in almost a decade; one can’t help but think a break from the Johnny Depp-Helena Bonham Carter collaborations rejuvenated his creativity.
Everything about Taken’s story was so concrete, that there didn’t seem like any obvious direction for a sequel, but a gross of $226.8 million on a $25-million budget talks, and so we have Taken 2
The problem (and irony) with college-based comedies is oftentimes, they treat their subjects as fools and drunks, smacking both the characters and audience in the face. Pitch Perfect could have been a massive disaster that took such a form; instead, it’s an all-around good time that rarely misses a beat while providing laughs that don’t make you feel dead inside.
A well-synchronized blend of old-school approach and modern gimmick, V/H/S unevenly but successfully marries the horror anthology with found footage to create an always-creepy, frequently scary collection of shorts from some of today’s best independent horror directors.
“Looper” runs on strong characters and an organic sense of urgency. It doesn’t get lost in sci-fi dialogue explaining how things work or become so driven by its concept that it detracts from creating believable people.
Arbitrage is one of the rarest thrillers around today – a morality tale that propels its gripping story through poor character choices and the ensuing aftermath rather than left-field twists and pointless action.
A nonhuman father doesn’t want his daughter to see the world and he does everything in his power to keep her from leaving his sight, even when she becomes infatuated with a human. No, Disney hasn’t released the The Little Mermaid in 3D (yet)
