Once upon a time a very popular Stephen King novel was made in to a hit movie and it became influential among many horror buffs. That’s about the extent of drama or intriguing Hollywood back story you’ll get with “Unearthed & Untold.” I’m sure it would make for a wonderful extra in its initial release, but I don’t know per se if it granted its own special release on Blu-Ray. The oddly celebrated horror drama is a movie that wasn’t much of an underdog like “Nightmare on Elm Street,” and didn’t garner weird supernatural coincidences like the set of “Poltergeist.” It was just a movie that was made thanks to a book that scared its own author to the core…
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
#ACTORSLIFE (2016)
An actor eager to make his mark in film takes a part offered by a more established actor who doesn’t feel like taking the job. This leads him down a very unexpected path.
Inquilinos (2018) [San Diego Latino Film Festival 2018]
A young couple, Luzma and Demian, having had to make some hard choices moves into their new place and things start getting weirder and weirder as they attempt to make this new place a home.
Justice Served (2017)
In a world where being a good person is suspicious and being punished, a man is on trial for pushing a little girl. Was he trying to kill her or save her?
Enthusiastic Sinners (2017) [CineQuest 2018]
Bruce and Shelley meet when the police are called on gunshots at her place. As there is no issue beyond misbehaving kids, they get to talking and lust quickly takes over. As they spend some times together getting to know each other, lust makes way to something much stronger.
Father’s Day (2017)
A recently widowed father visits his daughters in Los Angeles for Father’s Day with the hopes of saving them from their tortured artists’ lives.
Written and directed by Betty Ouyang, this short film explores family relations between two artist sisters and their more down to Earth father through one meal together. The family dynamics on display here are interesting to watch develop as more information is revealed about each member. Ouyang takes this subject and makes it distinctly hers by putting herself in the lead as well as in the writing and directing style. Here the subject is taken head-on and shown through intimate conversations. The way she approaches each discussion, each interaction is honest and done in a manner that is up close and personal for the characters thus pulling the viewer into their lives.
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998) [Blu-Ray]
Boyd Kirkland’s “SubZero” stands as not only one of the best animated Batman films of all time, but one of the best Batman films, period. In a time where Warner were handing us goofy films like “Batman Forever,” behind the scenes, Bruce Timm took the material seriously, delivering entertaining mature fare like “SubZero.” Something of a sequel to “Deep Freeze,” Kirkland’s film is also a stark contrast to last year’s “Batman and Harley Quinn,” choosing to expand on the hit episode, rather than repeat the same beats ad nauseum like the latter chose to.