“You are neither cold nor hot. So because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth.” – Gangs of New York or the Bible, take your pick. Either way, it fairly sums up my feelings about Dark Skies. Early looks had given me hope – scary sci-fi is as rare as a [...]
JOSH: Kara and I both dig the novel John Dies at the End. I just stumbled upon it a couple years ago, hoping to find a horror story that would actually scare me. That wasn’t exactly JDatE’s strongest suit, but I loved its perverse sense of humor, trippy meta-narrative, and blasts of ultra-gore. And who [...]
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Tags: adaptation, dark carnival film festival, david wong, john dies at the end, josh, kara, paul giamatti 
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[Note: This review contains minor spoilers.] My wife and I are HUGE movie fans. You could even say…film is “our life” in many ways. I work in “the industry” (although not as often as I’d like to), we met while working at a movie theater, we spend a lot of our free time watching movies [...]
Posted in Film Reviews, In Theaters Tags: A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis, Die Hard, film review, John McClane, Marco Beltrami, Michael Kamen 4 Comments »About a quarter of the way through Beautiful Creatures, I wondered if I was seeing an early front-runner for Worst Film of the Year.
Posted in Film Reviews, In Theaters, Reviews Tags: beautiful creatures, emma thompson, emmy rossum, film review, jeremy irons, viola davis 1 Comment »
In the wrong hands, Warm Bodies could have been a painful experience. Sweet, hoodie-wearing, indie-rock-loving emo boy – who is also a zombie – woos his lady love? The recipe for the twee-est of all tween zombie flicks is right there on paper. But in the hands of upcoming director Jonathan Levine (50/50, The Wackness, [...]
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The best thing about Guillermo del Toro – and the films he produces – is that he tries to push genres in ways that so many filmmakers avoid in favor of lazy old tropes. Ghost stories like Devil’s Backbone, superhero films like Blade II, and fantasy films like Pan’s Labyrinth weave together classical ideas with [...]
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