Review by Lauryn Angel I love shark movies. Once you get past Jaws (one of my all-time favorite movies), shark movies are usually pretty ridiculous and cheesy – hilariously bad (Sharknado, anyone?). So, with The Meg, I figured I was in for another so-bad-its-great...
Greetings again from the darkness. I like secrets too! By definition, information is scarce on these teams, so Secret Ops units are perfect fodder for intrigue, espionage, and geopolitical action flicks. A fictional account of an elite paramilitary unit chasing down...
Greetings again from the darkness. There are some actors who are so talented that they elevate most any material to a watchable status. Emma Thompson is one of the few. She is an Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay (SENSE AND SENSIBILITY) and for Best Actress...
Greetings again from the darkness. Marie Colvin was a (seemingly) fearless war correspondent obsessed with giving a voice to those forgotten during war. Were she alive today, she could not have hand-picked a better filmmaker than Matthew Heineman to tell her story....
Review by Jacquelin Hipes At one point in Welcome to the Men’s Group, Michael (Joseph Culp, playing the support group’s founder) asks a hesitant new member: “When do we reach for something more noble, higher?” He believes that these monthly meetings are healthier and...
Greetings again from the darkness. It has taken two movies this year, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST and this one from writer-director-producer-actor Joel Edgerton, and I finally understand that the practice of conversion therapy (treatment designed to change a...
By James Lindorf In 2012, writer and director, Andrew Bowler received an Academy Award nomination for best live action short film for his movie, Time Freak. Now after six years, he is back, and he has partnered with Lionsgate to release a feature-length version of...
Review by Lauryn Angel Director Julius Avery’s Overlord is a brutal, bloody action-horror flick, and it’s a whole lot of fun. The film is equal parts war movie and gore-fest. The film may be slow in a couple of places, and there were some questions left unanswered,...
Greetings again from the darkness. Those of us who were watching movies in the 1970’s recall Perry King as one of the fresh-faced, hunky twenty-somethings in THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH (1974) … along with Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler. Now, more than 40 years later,...
Review by Caitlin Zeigler Madaline (Kristen Ruhlin) returns home with her daughter Willow (Sophia Massa) when she finds out her father is sick. Her mother told her that she shouldn’t have come. When Madaline starts experiencing something strange, she soon finds out...