SHELBY OAKS MOVIE REVIEW A popular online video series of paranormal haunt investigators turns into a huge mystery when after going to investigate an abandoned town, Shelby Oaks, all four members of the cast go missing. The case drags on for years and years until only the sister of one of them still is determined […]

THE LIFE OF CHUCK MOVIE REVIEW The latest Stephen King adaptation isn’t a horror movie, although there is an apocalypse underway and a LOT of existential dread in the first (or third, as marked) act. No, it’s a feel-good, tear-jerker, ‘enjoy your life because it doesn’t last forever’ inspirational film. It’s also told in reverse […]

THE MONKEY MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Osgood Perkins is on a roll. Not long after making the horror movie everyone was talking about (good or bad) Longlegs, Perkins is back already with an adaptation of the Stephen King story The Monkey, but this time he’s playing with splatstick comedy-horror. Theo James plays twin brothers Hal and […]

PRESENCE MOVIE REVIEW Certainly writer David Koepp seems like a safe bet for a haunted house film (if you’ve never seen it, Stir of Echoes is great) but Steven Soderbergh as director? As one of our critics put it, “He just wanted to shoot an entire movie like his buddy Spike Jonze shot Beastie Boys […]

Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) is a grieving teen who can't really deal with the death of her mother. Being not quite 18, she reluctantly moves with her father (Marton Csokas), stepmother (Jessica Henwick) and mysteriously...

LONGLEGS MOVIE REVIEW The hype is here for director/writer Osgood Perkins new horror film Longlegs. It’s everywhere. Even not huge horror fans I know are talking about it in anticipation. Which is weird because I only know a handful of people who actually saw his terrific other films, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel and Hansel, and […]

EILEEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s Christmas time in a small town in 1960’s Massachusetts, a place where any hopes and dreams are killed and buried beneath the cold and the grey of the monotonous tedium of everyday life. At least that’s the case for Eileen Dunlap (Thomasin McKenzie) as she spends her days listlessly going from […]

FERRARI MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 8 years since his last film Blackhat and Michael Mann is finally back in the director’s chair with his newest film, Ferrari. The film follows ex-racer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, played here by an aged up Adam Driver, during a tumultuous summer in 1957 where he jungles his auto-empire and […]

IT LIVES INSIDE MOVIE REVIEW Overy 30 years ago a very ignorant and self assured TV dad once said “The code of the schoolyard… Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else…” and to this day those […]

SANCTUARY MOVIE REVIEW Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley star in the new film, Sanctuary, directed by Zachary Wigon following the director’s 2014 romantic drama The Heart Machine. Abbott plays Hal, the next young CEO getting ready to take over his late father’s hotel empire while Qualley plays Rebecca, Hal’s dominatrix who has been preparing him […]