March 10, 2016 “A Bit Of Bad Luck” (*1/2 out of four) was a bit of bad luck for moviegoers starring Cary Elwes as a smarmy yuppie attorney who gets lost in a nowheresville Southern town where his wife (Teri Polo) who he’s been cheating on orchestrates a plan to destroy him and his career. One-joke idea is tiresome and contrived. Elwes is good as always but let’s just say this is a long way from “The Princess Bride”. Continue reading →
March 8, 2016 “The Other Side Of The Door” (** out of four) was a pretentious horror thriller about a husband and wife (Jeremy Sisto and Sarah Wayne Callies) who suffer a tragic accident when their young son dies. The mother then travels to an ancient temple to attempt to bring her son back but when she disobeys a strict warning about the afterlife, it upsets the balance between life and death resulting in a multitude of consequences. Heavy on mood and atmosphere but light on thrills and scares and the story is mostly tripe. Not bad but this is yet another movie about a possessed child and haunted house and horror fans would fare best choosing an “other” movie. Continue reading →
March 6, 2016 “The Suicide Note” (** out of four) was an ordinary suspense thriller about a college student (Kirby Bliss Blanton) whose roommate commits suicide and leaves a note but upon further inspection, she begins to think there may be more than meets the eye and that she may have been murdered. No suspense and no real surprises either. Blanton’s sincere performance helps keep this watchable, if there is absolutely nothing else on. Continue reading →
March 6, 2016 “Feed The Gods” (*1/2 out of four) was an unappetizing horror thriller about two brothers (Tyler Johnston and Shawn Roberts) who return to a mountain town searching for their missing parents but soon discover that the town has a history of eating and dispensing with visitors and tourists. Feeble script without much scares or thrills results in a waste of time. Similar in some regards to Joe Dante’s “The Howling” but horror fans would be better off re-watching that classic than this one. Continue reading →
March 6, 2016 “Silent Retreat” (*1/2 out of four) was a routine and boring horror thriller about six members of a media company who go on a weekend business retreat at (oh boy) an isolated lodge in the woods which was formerly a mental institution and leads to them all being endangered. Don’t any of the characters in horror movies ever watch horror movies on their own? You would think by now most characters would know better to steer clear of cabins in the woods. You should also know better than to watch by-the-numbers horror junk like this. Continue reading →
March 5, 2016 “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil” (*1/2 out of four) was a moronic comedy for rednecks and die-hard fans of the Jerry Springer show only. In West Virginia, two hillbilly retards named Tucker and Dale (Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk) are vacationing at a mountain cabin when a group of college kids visit and think they are mass murderers and vice versa! Any type of comparison with these people to actual human beings with any intelligence is strictly coincidental. A few scattershot chuckles but overall pretty desperate. Continue reading →
March 5, 2016 “Kill Or Be Killed” (*1/2 out of four) was a stupid Western set in the fall of 1900 about an outlaw named Claude Barbee (Justin Meeks) who attempts to lead his gang across the Texas border after a botched railroad heist and the law is on their trail. The real botch is the movie itself. One more reason why Westerns have been “killed” from mainstream popularity. You can only imagine what Sergio Leone or Sam Peckinpah could have done with this material. Continue reading →
March 5, 2016 “Emelie” (** out of four) was a routine horror thriller about a babysitter (Sarah Bolger) who turns out to be not who she says she is and subjects the kids she is babysitting to numerous twisted activities. Reasonably well-made and well-acted but “The Hands That Rocks The Cradle” this is not, nor “Adventures In Babysitting” or even “The Guardian.” Not bad but only for those will try anything available in the Redbox slots. Continue reading →
March 5, 2016 “Road Games” (** out of four) was a pretentious and bizarre melodrama about a hitchhiking pair (Andrew Simpson and Josephine de la Baume) who become entangled with a very strange married couple and a guy who picks them up in rural France who happens to be a collector of roadkill! Features some powerful individual scenes and good performances but is overall too aloof and too strange (and too long) to get you involved in. Still, at least you have to give the filmmakers some points for trying something new and offbeat. Continue reading →
March 5, 2016 “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” (** out of four) was a disappointing adaptation of Kim Barker’s best-selling memoir about a reporter (Tina Fey) recounting her war coverage in Pakistan and Afghanistan and her wild times with a fellow journalist (Martin Freeman). Fey is winning as always but the movie isn’t funny enough, revelatory enough, or interesting enough to hold your attention for nearly two hours. Film shows plenty of whiskey but doesn’t show you much else you haven’t seen in other wartime dramas. Fey needs to start working on “Mean Girls 3” soon instead of mediocre projects like these. Continue reading →
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