Well, I’m sure glad to see this year in the rear-view mirror. But I admit movies saved me through all this. Granted, none of them were seen in movie theaters, but if a movie is good it will grab and…
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“No one in the universe loves their kid more than I do,” exclaims Diane (Sarah Paulson) to her special-needs daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen). Frankly, Joan Crawford starts looking like “Mother of the Year” after this smart, incredibly tense thriller by…
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There’s always a sense of impending dread in a film from director Bryan Bertino. A sense that everything is not going to turn out all right in the end. It makes his films memorably darker but often a lot scarier. …
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What’s unfortunate about this indie horror film by Marcel Walz is, while there are a lot of terrific twists, you just wish it was a scarier film. The story is about Faye (Sarah French), a famous actress living up in…
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A young couple vacationing in a tropical paradise find themselves in a living, waking nightmare from director Darren Lynn Bousman (who directed several of the Saw movies and knows how to sadistically tighten the noose on poor unfortunates). Luke Hemsworth…
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I am overjoyed the NY Film Festival persevered this year, despite the odds. And they did so with their usual intelligence and humor (the festival poster by John Waters was a great, funny touch). Their film choices were even more…
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Keegan Allen (King Cobra) plays Cole, a good-looking, arrogant, internet vlogger, who has built a 10-year international fan base watching his goofy antics traveling the globe, taking crazy risks, and always looking for the next thrill. The original title…
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A beautiful stately manor house in England, located far from anyone, amid green, rolling hills. This is the setting for a home invasion tale that goes spectacularly, violently, wrong in director Julius Berg’s tense thriller. Mary (Maisie Williams, Arya Stark…
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A horror/western hybrid with a good cast, that you wish was better and scarier than it is. After a botched train robbery, the Dalton gang heads for a nearby town to get medical attention for their wounded leader Duncan (Zachary…
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Director Amy Seimetz’s eerily relevant, visually trippy nightmare fable begins with Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), who suddenly becomes convinced that she will be dead tomorrow. Unfortunately, her morbid “idee fixe” has a communicable effect on her friends, and this overwhelming…
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