Starring: Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell, Brad Hall, and Miguel Ferrer. As fans of the horror genre, we are asked to buy a lot of strange concepts. A man who kills people in their dreams. A bullied teen who happens to have telekinesis. An adopted boy who comes to be the spawn of Satan. … Continue reading
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[Review] Contracted (2013) by Garrett Collins
Starring: Najarra Townsend, Alice Macdonald, Katie Stegeman, Ruben Pla, Matt Mercer, and Caroline Williams With Contracted, director Eric England (Madison County) has accomplished something that hired government officials haven’t figured out how to do in almost three decades: he has made the perfect abstinence video. People looking to have sex after watching this film seriously … Continue reading
[Review] Iron Man 3 by Garrett Collins
Last year, I was beginning to become desensitized to comic book films. Growing up, it was a dream of mine to see the comic books I was reading be faithfully brought to life, using the highest of technologies to bring the beautifully drawn pages to the big screen. Yet last year, the high profile comic … Continue reading
DVD Review: Comic Con Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope [MA15] by Garrett Collins
Director: Morgan Spurlock Featuring: Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, Fans The Film: I don’t normally like to start reviews off with anecdotes, but I feel in this case it is needed to put the subject of this Morgan Spurlock documentary into perspective: Back in the winter of 1976, executives at 20th Century Fox really … Continue reading
Blu-ray Review: Flight Of The Navigator [U] by Garrett Collins
Dir: Randal Kleiser Starring: Joey Cramer, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartright, Matt Adler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matt Adler The Film: Think back to when you were twelve years old. The biggest stress in your life is whether you will be able to train your sweet but lazy dog to be able to catch a … Continue reading
Garrett’s Picks For What To Watch This Halloween
Lists are essential to late October movie viewing aren’t they? I know when I was a lad, I would walk into a video store and check out employee lists of suggestions for a scary evening in front of the TV. Above, is what I would deem to be the perfect night of creeps and laughs. … Continue reading
[Review Rewind] The Addiction (1995) by Garrett Collins
I don’t think I am hanging too far off a limb by saying that the vampire genre is one that has been done to death (no pun intended). We have seen tortured vampires. We have seen happy vampires. Continue reading
[Review] Moonrise Kingdom (2012) by Garrett Collins
Starring: Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton Directed By: Wes Anderson At one point in Moonrise Kingdom, the latest quirky romp from director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums), the film’s main character, a little boy named Sam, makes earrings made of bugs for his … Continue reading
[Review] Nightbreed (1990) by Garrett Collins
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, and Doug Bradley Directed by: Clive Barker It’s hard to think about now, but back in the mid 80s, Clive Barker was known as horror’s next big literary and motion picture giant. With his Books of Blood collections and a film called Hellraiser, he had started placing his … Continue reading
[Review] Chernobyl Diaries (2012) by Garrett Collins
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski and Olivia Dudley Directed by: Bradley Parker Filmmaker Oren Peli is at a crossroads in his career. After his extremely low budget and famously so frightening it even scared Spielberg into producing it Paranormal Activity opened in 2009 and became a worldwide phenomenon, he found himself being in with the … Continue reading
[Review] Cabin In The Woods (2012) by Garrett Collins
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford Directed by: Drew Goddard 2012 is fixing to be Joss Whedon’s year. At the time I am writing this, we are exactly a month away from the release of his long-awaited summer blockbuster The Avengers. A film that brings together a group of … Continue reading
DVD Review: Absentia by Garrett Collins
Dir: Mike Flanagan Starring: Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Morgan Peter Brown, Justin Gordon The Film: We live in a very interesting age in the world of horror. It is almost impossible not to see a modern film come out which doesn’t contain some kind of homage or storyline from a film that we, … Continue reading
DVD Review: The Future [M15] by Garrett Collins
Dir: Miranda July, Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater The Film: Miranda July, the writer, director, and star of The Future, is an example of what would happen if Sofia Coppola and David Lynch had a daughter who grew up to make films. While her central ideas are full of thought, it is tough to get … Continue reading
[Review] My Soul To Take (2010) by Garrett Collins
What in the world happened to Wes Craven? Growing up, I couldn’t help but be a big fan of the man’s work. Hell, even Deadly Friend and Shocker were hits in my room! But, looking back, since when did he ever make a film that evoked fear & feelings of tension and didn’t have Nightmare … Continue reading