Once again, we go back to the Borley Rectory this season of treason among the falling leaves.  And that’s not a bad thing either.  While there are a lot of crazy things happening in Borley Rectory: The Awakening, the pacing is designed to keep everyone on the edge of their   ...

Never has the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction” had more relevance than it does in Roofman, director Derek Cianfrance’s entertaining little crime comedy-drama. The film stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester, a charming, blue-collar, ex-military whose   ...

All aboard for Train Dreams! Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, this moving portrait of logger and railroad worker Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) captures the quiet beauty and heartbreak of a life shaped by a rapidly changing America  ...

Giddy up, Gorehounds! The tried and true western genre just got a major upgrade thanks to Forgive Us All, a post-apocalyptic take on a western frontier sprinkled with . . . wait for it . . . ZOMBIES!.  And this world of zombified cannibals works to deliver a drama-centrific take   ...

“Doctors say there’s still a chance.  Come home.” Shed is a film in which the humidity and the heat seen on the screen is actually felt by its audience.  The thriller never dips in quality either, opening with a curious scene involving a radio newscast, an escaped convict, and a mysterious  ...

Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II isn’t the best release in the series but, with its workmanlike earnestness, the minor dip in glossy quality isn’t a complete undoing.  It holds up better than most slasher sequels.  Besides, measuring the original release both in reception and its critical analysis, the drop  ...

“The worm is the spice!  The spice is the worm!” David Lynch’s Dune might not be the director’s favorite movie-making experience.  It also might not be on any science fiction fan’s top 10 list (although it probably should be).  Those sentences alone do not make Lynch’s attempt at bringing ...

The bookish virgin.  Two selfish friends.  The obsessed psychiatrist.  A babysitting job on October 31st.  And The Shape.  Halloween, masterfully directed by John Carpenter, is considered – some 35 years after its release – a classic film of sound and vision.  It is the film that I have watched more  ...