There is still life outside of Hollywood, and it is good. Last year the brothers Jason and Brandon Trost released The FP onto the world. What is the FP you ask yourself? Well it stands for Frazier Park, which is...
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Upstream Color : One of the Greatest Science Fiction Films I Have Ever Seen
Is that a bold statement? I hope so. This really isn't a review, but more about letting people know this film is out there. I feel I have to be careful writing about this film. I don't personally think that...
The Lords of Salem Delivers the Creeps
When I found out that rocker turned director Rob Zombie had a new film coming out I was more than excited. Being a huge fan of his first feature House of a 1000 Corpses, I was eagerly anticipating his new...
Room 237 Delivers the Theories Surrounding Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
I am assuming that most people reading this have seen Stanley Kubrick's film version of the Stephen King novel The Shining. If you have not then stop reading this and go watch it. For those of you that have read...
The Evil Dead Returns
I feel that many of these horror remakes these days are the product of movie studios running out of ideas for original content and an easy way to grab cash from all of the people that will go see it....
Thank You Park Chan-wook for Stoker
A few weeks ago I revisited Oldboy, Park Chan-wook's complex revenge story. Knowing that his new film was not a South Korean production, but his first US / UK production, I was very excited. So being in Boston today and...
Dark Skies Left Me Thinking Is There Life Out There In Hollywood?
It is not that often that a well done alien abduction type movie comes out, and this was not one of those times. Im somewhat saddened to say that after viewing the new sci-fi thriller Dark Skies, I feel that I have...
Revisiting Oldboy, Which Never Gets Old
After hearing that Spike Lee was remaking Park Chan-wook's 2003 masterpiece Oldboy this year I decided to watch it again. I had seen it a few years ago when I heard about the Vengeance Trilogy Chan-wook had made. His three films are Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and...
Give that man several Oscars please
Michael Heneke that is, for his new film Amour. Heneke has once again created something special for the cinema. His new French-language film follows Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), a couple in their eighties, who live...