Category: Movie Reviews

The Witch Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw Directed by: Robert Eggers Written by: Robert Eggers Rating: R Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Genre: Horror Release Date: 2016 The buzz on The Witch was this was super spooky movie that was really well done. It was marketed as a horror movie, but I...

The Shining Starring: Steven Weber, Rebecca De Morney, Courtland Mead, Wil Horneff, Melvin Van Peebles Directed by: Mick Garris Written by: Stephen King (teleplay and novel) Rating: Unrated Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Genre: Horror Release Date: 1997 I remember when this miniseries came out. I meant to watch it, but never got around to it, most...

Room Starring: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Joan Allen Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson Written by: Emma Donoghue (novel and screenplay) Rating: R Length: 1 hour 58 minutes Genre: Drama Release Date: 2015 I had heard really good things about the book that Room is based from, but I did not read it before going in...

The Shining Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson Rating: R Length: 2 hour, 26 minutes Genre: Horror Release Date: 1980 I’ve seen this movie many times. I love this movie. It still scares me. I watched it immediately after first reading The...

Spotlight Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James, Stanley Tucci Directed by: Tom McCarthy Written by: Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer Rating: R Length: 2 hour, 8 minutes Genre: Historical Drama Release Date: 2015 Making a movie about a bunch of newspaper reporters from the Boston Globe, who uncovered the massive...

Carol Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, John Magaro Directed by: Todd Haynes Written by: Phyllis Nagy (screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (novel) Rating: R Genre: Romance Release Date: 2015 Carol is a slow movie, but I was never bored while watching it. I could see other people not having the...

I have no recollection of this 2004 version of Salem’s Lot existing. I think I would have paid attention to it somewhat because of Rob Lowe, but I didn’t. In some ways I enjoyed watching this version of the story better than the 1979 original, but I did not...

The Revenant is brutal. It is not a fun movie to watch, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy watching it. I could almost feel all the pain that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Hugh Glass, was experiencing in the American wilderness–from the horrendous bear attack to the bitter cold...

The 1979 television miniseries of Salem’s Lot does a decent job of translating the spirit and most of the plot points of the Stephen King novel into three hours of spooky vampire shenanigans. Any unintentional laughter I had from it mostly came from the limited special effects due to the...

I am a fan of Quentin Tarantino movies. I love the very wordy dialogue and the extreme violence. I find it very entertaining. Before The Hateful Eight, I had never seen a movie in 70mm before in the theater and it was quite an experience. There was an overture...