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There’s no denying that Tilda Swinton gives a tour de force performance in director Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. No less can be expected from one of the most talented working actors in the business, but the downside is that hers is a tour de force performance … Continue reading
Execution is key when it comes to a good — or even just a mediocre — thriller, especially one that hinges on an implausible gimmick or plot concept. If you try to fake you’re way through it, it’ll collapse faster than a house of cards in an earthquake. Director Asger Leth’s and screenwriter Pablo Fenjves’ … Continue reading
A wasted opportunity if there ever was one, Oren Peli’s (Paranormal Activity) anemic Chernobyl Diaries could have been an inspired bit of B-movie gold if it had been a little less half-assed. The story features the usual stock horror movie victims — er, characters — six young vacationers hanging out in the Ukraine who … Continue reading
Arguably the least-anticipated sequel of the year, Men in Black III undoes a lot of the damage caused by the listless, lackluster 2002 follow-up that sucked the life out of what could have been a quirky, lively franchise and left dormant for a decade. MiB3 may have a arrived too late to fully revive the series (less … Continue reading
While it’s a cheap thrill to see Hammer Film Productions — purveyor of so many other cheap thrills during the 1930s-’80s — back in business after decades in purgatory, their first post-revival production is a reminder of what drained the life from the iconic schlock factory and sent it into limbo to begin with: cheap, … Continue reading
The first big, dumb, and loud movie spectacle of the summer has arrived in the form of Battleship, ostensibly based on the Hasbro board game and directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom) with something for everyone: tons of heavy ordnance and explosions for the boys, and plenty of chiseled eye candy for … Continue reading
One of the most surprising and effective survival films of in a long time, The Grey is a nerve-wracking drama that wrings quite a lot from very little while submitting viewers to a glimpse of an icy hell on earth. It’s hard to believe it’s from director Joe Carnahan and produced by Tony Scott, whose respective screamingly over-the-top … Continue reading
Every movie about demonic possession invariably gets compared to The Exorcist, perhaps unfairly so but not without reason. William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty crafted a white-knuckle exercise in terror that, almost 40 years later, still leaves audiences with nightmares and theater managers with urine-soaked seats. The latest challenger to the throne, The Devil Inside, is a … Continue reading
Much like its progenitor, The Blair Witch Project, the first Paranormal Activity thrived on novelty value and a degree of creativity within its bare-bones indie production that helped turn horror away from the torture porn aspect that dominated it for the past decade. The inevitable sequel and string of knock-offs have since bled it dry. … Continue reading
Though the marketing of Catfish may have unwary viewers believing it to be a thriller of sorts, it’s actually something a bit more conventional. This doesn’t stop it from being suspenseful and, at times, unsettling, through the final payoff. The movie is a documentary on a young New York photographer named Nev Schulman, filmed by his … Continue reading
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