In theaters June 14, 2024
In a very controlled environment, a young girl starts seeing changes to her body, changes that turn horrific fast.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Gunfighter Paradise (2024)
Recently selected to the 2024 RiverRun Film Festival.
Like a Southern fried “Donnie Darko,” writer/director Jethro Waters’s darkly comic dissection of America and masculinity is truly one of the most unique and bizarre dark comedies to come out of the independent circuit. I don’t think audiences are ready for what someone like Waters has in store, placing America’s current social climate up to a big lens and lending some insight in to the lunacy of it all, and how the lunacy has become the new norm.
Mute Witness (1995)
Out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD June 11th, 2024, from Arrow Video.
A mute woman witnessed a murder while stuck in the studio after hours on the set she is a makeup artist for a slasher film.
The Valiant Ones (1975) (aka Zhong lie tu) [The Masters of Cinema Series]
Available on Blu-ray and 4K UHD June 11th, 2024, from Eureka Entertainment
When pirates invade the land, the emperor dispatches an officer and his cohorts to take care of the problem.
Blind War (2022) (Mang zhan)
Available from WellGoUSA on 06/11/2024 on Digital and Blu-ray.
A SWAT captain blinded in a mission that went awry must get back into fighting shape when his daughter is in danger from a former foe.
The Watchers (2024)
The Original novel from A.M. Shine is now available.
Now Exclusively in Theaters.
With the debut of Ishina Night Shyamalan I was hopeful that we would get a bold new voice for the genre film. Instead, she offers up a lukewarm, barely edible movie that fails as cinema, and failed as a movie you cam just use it as a means of killing time on a boring Sunday. You won’t kill time, but you might just doze off every now and then, thanks to its almost pride in tedium and dullness. For almost a ninety minutes movie, Shyamalan’s movie is painfully uneven in tone and pacing slowing down big time in various moments as a means to stage her clunky symbolism.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
Now Exclusively in Theaters.
I’ve had my problems with the “Bad Boys” series in the past, but unlike the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, it’s been one of the most consistent series of action films ever released. The vision for “Bad Boys” has remained very precise and direct without adding too much or taking too much away. The stakes get higher with every film, and through it all we’ve stayed with Marcus and Mike only without adding on so much excess characters like “Lethal Weapon” fell victim to. “Bad Boys” has mainly been a vehicle for Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, sure, but at least it knows what it is and tries to deliver on more complex ideas and bigger stakes.