Insidious: Chapter 3 has everything we’ve come to expect from the series: an idiotic family haunted by evil entities, Shakespearean demons and never ending jump scares that basically fund the film. This time we explore old psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) and her encounter with a ferocious demon that bump her back into business and prepare her for more devious …
“Tomorrowland,” Brad Bird’s Labor of Love
Tomorrowland works more as an idea than a place, yet as a film it soars higher than any live action Disney film in recent years. That’s a bold statement, I know, but not since the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” has something been crafted so lovingly that its finished product allowed its highs to outweigh its lows. The film was …
Yes. “It Follows” IS a great film.
It’s like an R.L. Stine story on drugs. The kids play around, piss off a monster, tell it to aloof parents, and leave us on a cliffhanger. There is a moment in David Robert Mitchell’s, “It Follows” where Jay (the film’s protagonist played by Maika Monroe) has just returned home safely from an ordeal she believes is long over. Jay …
The Not Man on Fire
Okay, in response to a friend who recently saw this movie and came out rather upset that no one else inside the theater shared in her excitement as Denzel murdered evildoers with precision and ease, I will convey my thoughts. First of all: Yell all you want Lynn G. If you feel the feeling, express yourself. Reactions to great scenes …
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Fury: A Talking With Burritos Review
Fury is a decent war movie with tense and unsettling scenes but lacks the emotional depth to make it into the pantheon of memorable war movies of the last twenty years. The battle scenes — two actually — were pleasantly executed. I never knew of the antitank used by the Nazi army but whoa, it was a brickhouse and produced many …
Annabelle: Talking With Burritos Review
There’s mother standing in a nursery. Before her is a creepy ass doll with the intention to do bad to the resting baby who apparently sleeps through anything. Three words: Spaghetti Western Standoff. All I needed was a soundtrack from Ennio Morricone and a fight to death…ah, perfection. My kind of scary movie, a spaghetti western horror with a Black …
The Maze Runner – Review
Everything is going to change. Anyone familiar with the book, The Maze Runner, understands the meaning and importance of this phrase. Everything did change with this adaptation of the popular YA novel by James Dasher. However, it wasn’t horrible. The changes made were in concert to the plot and progression of the storyline without the use of too much exposition. …
When the Game Stands Tall – Review
Just as it’s predecessor, Friday Night Lights, Stand Tall is a re telling of actual events about actual people. Embellished to fit the mold of the movie structure which ultimately strips away the importance of what a leader and his gridiron soliders were able to accomplish over a span of six years, one hundred and fifty one wins — no loses. …