Reviews

With his newest film, Stoker, he is constructing a different sort of film.

Director Nick Love struggles with balancing a gritty cop drama (that might be trying just a little too hard to please fans of the cop drama) and a romance between stars Ray Winstone and Hayley Atwell.

We as the audience demand certain traits of our horror, yet we still see the same slasher films over and over, despite our endless complaints. It’s a weird scenario, yet an accurate one that The Cabin in the Woods comments on.

I encourage everyone to see this film, as it’s one of the few pieces of pure, original animation left. It feels lively, new and refreshing.

Severely disappointing on every level. You have an incredibly interesting figure in history and reduce him to a few cliches and make him overact to try and compensate.

Pablo Larrain’s interesting Post Mortem is flawed but definitely worth the price of admission for those accustomed to this ‘type’ of film. It needed more focus, and a better sense of what it is—rather than what it really wants to be.

...I realized, as I looked around the theater and as the ‘games began’, that people were— ironically enough—excited about seeing the bloodshed. This can’t have been what they wanted, right?

Nourizadeh isn’t a bad filmmaker by any measure, but Project X feels more like a music video. In a way, I guess it sort of is.

The Grey is a B-movie, of sorts. One of those releases that goes straight-to-video. But does that make it a bad movie, necessarily? Not at all. For what it’s worth, it’s undeniably silly and suspenseful at the same time.

Although enjoyable, it’s stricken with ridiculous scenes clearly designed to charm the pants off the viewer. Instead, it’s stuck in a state of goofy humor and shallow characters that never fully come into their own.