25/100
** Spoiler Warning ** A woman returns to her estranged father's home after an accident and strange things begin to happen. The trailer is terrifying but the film is terrifyingly slow ...they doled out tiny little bits of information, along with a few scary bits, so they could stretch it out for 90 minutes. Secondly, the sound would whisper so you had to crank the volume all the way up ...just in time for them to slam you with noise that'll blow out your windows. I guess they were afraid you'd fall asleep. In the end, you realize that everything they've had to endure was futile. O…
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32/100
Frodo! Say it ain't so!! Actually, far from being typecast, Elijah Wood has grabbed quite a variety of roles including this one as a totally psychopathic - but likable - manikin maker and does a fantastic job. Unfortunately, that's the only good thing about this dark and very uncomfortably slow remake of the 1980 film. Apparently, someone didn't think the original was depraved enough. -- DrNostromo.com…
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81/100
In a house containing a slaughtered family, a nude female half buried in the basement is discovered. Then things get really strange when the autopsy begins. A completely original atmospheric piece that totally creeped me out ...which isn't easy to do anymore. The slow but progressive series of unnerving events without any real explanation as to what's happening until practically the end was well done and left me wondering, "What could possibly happen next"? Good stuff!! -- DrNostromo.com…
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53/100
"Tales from the Darkside" was a fairly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek, horror anthology TV series. For a movie, however, you'd think they would have turned it up a few notches ...especially with the talent backing up the writing. But, basically what we have here is 3 stories that are no different than watching 3 episodes of the TV show. It's not bad - in fact, I enjoyed it for what it was - it just wasn't anything special. - DrNostromo.com…
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78/100
A fictionalized (but fairly accurate with the main points) depiction of the short career of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as notorious bank robbers and killers during the depression years of the early 30's. All the actors in this did stupendous jobs giving their characters a wealth of personality, humor, and depth making them likable and someone to cheer for despite their sociopathic ruthlessness. If you're unfamiliar with their tragic story, this is a good place to start for some broad information ...as well as damn good entertainment. -- DrNostromo.com…
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76/100
A professional mercenary is brought back from the dead using a medical technique developed by the company he works for. Unfortunately, it only gives him 24 hours and the company finds that it probably wasn't a good idea to bring him back. A exceptionally well made film with a realistically presented story, despite the unrealistic premise, excellent performances from both Ethan Hawke and Qing Xu, and some absolutely stellar, brilliantly choreographed action and gun fight sequences. Very exciting stuff! -- DrNostromo.com…
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Australian production "Scurry" offers up a claustrophobic, survivalist horror.
Confined underground spaces, tight tunnels, the stuff of nightmares for many of us, are as much a core aspect of what makes this film uncomfortable and nerve wracking, as the horrific over sized bugs, that pursue the protagonists. You could say this is a giant ant farm where people have been dropped in and must now escape.
Its not a bad premise for a horror film but physical limitations also impose a further limit on what this film can creatively achieve. Unsurprisingly, it can feel a little repetitiv…
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If you’ve seen “Dragon’s Den” then you’ll be familiar with the concept of some nervous entrepreneurial types making a pitch for resources to a panel of investors. Well here it’s “Vera” (Asta Kamma August) and her boyfriend “André” (Herbert Nordrum) who have come up with a plan to help out women with certain, un-defined, medical problems. With the big day approaching, she goes off to see a hypnotherapist whom she has read can help wean her off tobacco. Afterwards, when they arrive at the hotel, she appears different. Indeed, her behaviour becomes more and more eccentric and their partnership st…
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Ok, so perhaps some of the claims made in the narration about some of the stars featured here are a bit optimistically speculative, but it still manages to use some very well researched archive and the benefit of hindsight to portray a sort of “Hollywood Babylon” approach to a century of gay Hollywood film-making. Starting way back, pre-code, with films from the likes of Cecil B. DeMille, it presents and engaging analysis of cinematic history that includes some of the talked-about regulars like Greta Garbo, Dame Judith Anderson, Rock Hudson and Monty Clift, but instead of reverting to the goss…
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I have to admit that I was completely unaware that San Francisco mayor George Moscone was also shot on the same day as Harvey Milk, nor that both were shot by a fellow city supervisor in their offices at City Hall - Dan White. This well-informed documentary begins at the start of Milk’s career where this man of Jewish immigrant heritage begins to assume some civic responsibility for his district. Attempting to get onto the city’s council in the early 1970s, he was able to raise the profile of the difficulties faced by the burgeoning gay population of the Castro and eventually, thanks to a more…
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