[7] I think Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Red State) is a much more interesting filmmaker now that he’s making horror films. Tusk is a controversial move for the director — it’s too silly for die-hard horror fans, but too off-putting to be a comedy. Justin Long stars as a podcaster who travels to remote Canada to interview a strange but alluring old sea dog, played …
[7] Exists is easily the best Bigfoot movie ever made. There’s still room for improvement, but I have to applaud writer Jamie Nash and director Eduardo Sánchez (The Blair Witch Project) for making my favorite boogeyman as scary as he ought to be. The monster is fast, furious, angry, and towering. The story isn’t the most original, but it suffices. Five college kids sneak away …
[4] Alex Essoe stars as a young woman who’ll do anything to become a successful actress. When a mysterious Hollywood secret society ‘auditions’ her and offers her everything she’s ever wanted, she stops at nothing and sacrifices everything for eternal fame. Essoe does a good job and there are some nifty makeup effects in the later half of the film, but I really disliked Essoe’s …
[7] Cold in July is hard to summarize, and that’s a big part of why it’s interesting. It starts off with a bang, as Michael C. Hall (TV’s Dexter) is forced to protect his home from an intruder. No sooner than the blood is off the walls, Hall’s character learns the deceased was the son of an ex-con out for vengeance, played by Sam Shepard. …
[7] Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) gives a powerhouse performance as the widowed mother of a troubled child who believes a storybook monster is terrorizing their household. At first, Mom doesn’t believe the monster is real, but Mr. Babadook quickly makes his presence increasingly known… or is Mom just losing her mind from anxiety and exhaustion? Davis pulls out every weapon in her arsenal …
[8] Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a morally bankrupt ambulance chaser who sells gruesome crime video to L.A. television stations. First-time writer/director Dan Gilroy paints an interesting portrait of a disturbed man who may reflect our times more accurately than we’re ready to acknowledge. Nightcrawler shows its hand pretty early on, but Gyllenhaal and co-star Rene Russo, playing a cutthroat TV news producer, keep you engrossed …
[7] Ben Affleck stars as a man whose wife appears to have been violently abducted from their home. Due to his unusually calm demeanor, the local law enforcement and the public both begin to think he might have killed her, but the truth is something a little more complicated than that. All the fun in this David Fincher movie (based on the novel by Gillian …
[8] Christopher Nolan (Inception, Memento) co-writes and directs this emotional sci-fi adventure about a farmer (Matthew McConaughey) who leaves his family during the last generation of human life on Earth, hoping to find a new planet for the species to call home. With the help of a secret rag-tag team of NASA scientists, he makes a two-year voyage to Saturn where a wormhole makes the …
[4] Cam Gigandet (Easy A, Twilight) stars as a playboy whose penis detaches and manifests as its own person (Nick Thune). I’m all for absurd concepts and sex comedies, but Bad Johnson plays it too safe and formulaic to leave much of an impression. Once Gigandet’s character and his penis squabble and call it splits, the film falls into standard rom-com territory with Gigandet trying …
[7] Steve James (Hoop Dreams) directs this documentary about the life and career of Roger Ebert, arguably the most famous and most well-loved film critic who ever lived. Life Itself begins near the end of Roger’s life, after cancer has taken his lower jaw and new growths are discovered in his spine. Before we learn too much about his prognosis, James leads us through Roger’s …
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