★★1/2☆☆ Hysteria is a Carry On film with ambitions of feminism. As you might imagine, this is problematic, and it’s a problem the film never really solves. This lack of resolution, plus a few other…
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The Devil’s Business DVD Review
★★★1/2 The achievement of telling a successful horror story is akin to the achievement of successfully juggling chainsaws. Both activities entertain an audience by making them tense, and both have their entertainment value severely reduced…
Anna Karenina Review
★★★★★ Anna Karenina is a story about love, and its place in society. It’s also a whirling, passionate film that picks up the phrase “all the world’s a stage” and runs with it. This is…
Lawless Review
Lawless is one of those oh so tricky review subjects. It’s not a bad movie. But in terms of story it is severely lacking. The film concerns the adventures of the Bondurant clan, a hillbilly…
The Devil’s Business Review
★★★1/2 The achievement of telling a successful horror story is akin to the achievement of successfully juggling chainsaws. Both activities entertain an audience by making them tense, and both have their entertainment value severely reduced…
The Land That Time Forgot DVD Review
★★★1/2☆ The Land That Time Forgot (TLTTF) is a movie I wish I had seen 14 years ago. It is my belief that the dinosaur phase is an essential part of the lifecycle of the…
Warlords Of Atlantis DVD Review
★★☆☆☆ “Warlords of Atlantis” is a pre-Star Wars Z sci-fi/fantasy film from the most famous director/actor collaborators of the genre Doug McClure and Kevin Connor and it’s there 3rd and last. It was also called…
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Review
★★★1/2☆ Sometimes the story matters less than the storyteller. That was the feeling I got from Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (SFEW), a film by writer/director Lorene Scafaria (who previously wrote…
The Hunter Review
★★★1/2☆ The problem with The Hunter is that it is in fact two different films. One is a relationship drama, the tale of a lonely, isolated man finding a family. The other is a tense,…
DVD Review – Margaret
★★★★★ Sometimes, to tell a story is to hold a mirror up to life: to reflect, and so capture a time and a place and an idea all at once. It’s an awful cliché to…
DVD Review: The InnKeepers
★★★☆☆ Ti West has made quite a distinct impact on the horror scene despite having only three previous films under his belt (the fourth, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever,is formally accredited to him even though…
A Royal Affair (En kongelig affære) Review Starring Mads Mikkelsen
★★★★☆ For me, A Royal Affair was a film without empathy. From the perspective of the craft, it is fine: workmanlike, rather than dynamic, but put together with care and attention. I don’t like crapping…
“Rent-a-ghost Revisited” THE INNKEEPERS Review
★★★☆☆ The strength of Innkeepers lies in the execution, not the story. This is a well-made, low-key horror. As such, it reminded me a lot of Stephen Soderbergh’s Haywire, the stripped-down action movie from earlier…
“Are You Seeing This Ridley?” PROMETHEUS Review Has Landed!
★★★★☆ Prometheus is a story built around a mystery, which is problematic. Stories after all need conclusions, but unfortunately, the makers of Prometheus preferred to preserve the mystery. It’s easy to understand why. The need…