There’s a moment in a pool in Summer ’03 which I absolutely love. It is a slow motion sequence of Jamie, our lead character, just floating in the pool. She’s underwater watching as other people jump in. It is as if she is suspended there, taking everything in, and not ...
This movie is stupid. Its tagline is no lie. Seriously. It is also completely crackers with both its content and its gore. If you can’t tell from the title alone, Camp Death III in 2D, is a riotous parody of horror films like Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp. Full of really bad jokes ...
"DON'T GO DOWN THE BASEMENT!" When it comes to horror, it’s a common phrase Usually, there are some dark and disturbing things that shouldn’t be uncovered down there. Yet, in The Basement, premiering on digital from Uncork’d Entertainment, that lowly place ...
Having lived there before, the suburbs are where the craziest of the crazy hide. You already suspect this. I do, too. Summer of 84, with a killer third act, is the confirmation we needed. There’s a chance, after watching this flick, that you won’t be able to look at your ...
Arizona is about a man on the edge. Set during the most recent housing market crash, this horror comedy features Danny McBride as a pissed off victim of the subprime mortgage crisis. Anyone expecting social commentary; however, will be disappointed. Oh, there are ...
Novelist Lois Duncan was way ahead of her time. It is as if she had her finger on the pulse of all tomorrow’s youth, paving the way for the Young Adult movement in literature. Seriously. While everyone else was all Savannah Smiles-like, Duncan was pumping out ...
There’s a fairly early scene in The Happytime Murders that sets the twisted tone for what’s to follow. It takes place in a seedy area of Los Angeles in an even seedier sex shop where we witness – through a pulled back curtain into a darkened back room – an octopus violently ...
There is a line of dialogue in Papillon in which the prison warden says to his titular captive immediately upon opening the cell door at the conclusion of the prisoner's five-year stint in solitary confinement, "Not many make it five years in here,” says the ...
With a paper thin plot, erratic tone, and humor that rarely elicits so much as a slight chuckle, Dog Days, the latest from TV funnyman Ken Marino, is a film that should not work. But it does. Thanks to the furry faces, sloppy tongues, and wagging tails of its canine stars ...
Spike Lee follows up his keenly poignant comedy/drama/musical Chi-Raq with BlacKkKlansman, another film that shares the same frustratingly uneven tone and disjointed structure yet always manages to slap its intended target squarely upside the head. And that target is ...
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