Movie Review Archive

  • [Review] Rammbock (2010)

    Posted on May 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Director: Marvin Kren / Writer: Benjamin Hessler (screenplay) / Starring: Sebastian Achilles, Ingrid Beerbaum, and Carsten Behrendt Just a week after watching the zombie-like vampires of Stake Land, I had an opportunity last Friday night to check out a real zombie movie from a German perspective. Weighing in at only 61...

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  • Scream-A-Thon: Session 9

    Posted on May 5, 2011 | No Comments
    Here at Scream-A-Thon I want to shine a light on those horror films that might have bypassed the mainstream, hiding in the shadows while schlocky big budget affairs draw in the punters. I would be exceedingly negligent if I failed to unearth the gem that...

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  • Old Movie / Young Eyes: Better Off Dead (1985)

    Posted on May 4, 2011 | 13 Comments
    Director: Savage Steve Holland / Writer: Savage Steve Holland / Starring: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, and Kim Darby For some reason or other, every time I saw Better Off Dead sitting in my netflix queue before it finally arrived in my mail box, I thought it was One Crazy...

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  • [Review] Stake Land

    Posted on April 24, 2011 | No Comments
    Director: Jim Mickle / Writers: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle / Starring: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, and Kelly McGillis IMDB Plot Summary: Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned...

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  • Foreign Focus: Banlieue 13

    Posted on April 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
    When you see “A Film by Luc Besson” on a film poster, you can’t guarantee that he actually directed it – in fact, he has just seventeen director credits to his name, but forty credits for writing, and a massive 99 for producing. 2004′s District 13...

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  • [Review] Scream 4 (2011)

    Posted on April 19, 2011 | No Comments
    Scre4m (2011) Dimension Films In theaters now Directed by Wes Craven Written by Kevin Williamson   Starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts   Rating 4 out of 5 The below review will contain some moderate spoilers. I will hide most of those...

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  • [Review] Source Code (2011)

    Posted on April 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Source Code (2011) Summit Entertainment In theaters now   Directed by Duncan Jones Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga   Rating 4 of 5 I’ve waited a while to post a review of Source Code because I wanted to publish it after most people...

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  • [Old Movies / Young Eyes] Black Narcissus (1947)

    Posted on April 9, 2011 | No Comments
    Release Year: 1947 / Directed by: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger / Written by: Rumer Godden / Starring: Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron and David Farrar When I chose Black Narcissus as my next Old Movies/Young Eyes review, I was curious if it would live up...

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  • [Review] Hanna (2011)

    Posted on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
    To repeat Miranda's famous line, "Oh brave new world, that has such people in it." In Hanna, direction Joe Wright is able to create a world that is one part Grimm fairy tale and one part spy thriller and throw his heroine into it, delivering her own version of "brave new world".

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  • [Old Movies / Young Eyes] Les Diaboliques (1955)

    Posted on April 2, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Release Year: 1955 / Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot / Starring Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, and Simone Signoret Les Diaboliques is hands down the best thriller/suspense/horror movie I have ever seen. There is just simply no other way to put it. I decided to watch the...

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