LITERAL REMAINS

The Coleman’s, John and Kate (plus two), are on the road to recovery having suffered through a couple of tragic events.  As told in the opening sequence, their third child was stillborn; it is later revealed that Kate is in therapy, had has a history of alcohol abuse.  It hasn’t been that long since their [...]

Christine is a loan officer in a bank.  She has a boyfriend named Clayton.  She tries to always to do the right thing, think on the positive side of life, but Christine is having a tough go at things.  Life seems to be one pile driver after another.
First off, she is in line for a promotion as assistant [...]

Honestly, this is a Halloween fanatic’s wet dream.  Trick ‘r Treat, which Warner Bros. has let languish, needlessly, on the shelf since ‘07, is a near perfect treat for this All Hallow’s Eve season.  It continues the streak of studios releasing less than average pictures to wide theatrical releases while sending some quality films (The [...]

If you pop The Hills Run Red into your DVD player, you will see that this movie has a certain infectious, morbid, glee.  It feels nearly as giddy as a school girl on prom night.  It knows it is traveling well trod territory, but makes such a mad dash through it you don’t really mind that you [...]

Mary Florescu, a paranormal researcher/investigator, is a visiting professor.  She is in the city to conduct an investigation into a house that has had some gruesome activity, the most recent of which was a teenage girl being horribly killed.  “Horribly” as in her parents found her with her face ripped off.
Helping Mary, other than her [...]

Is Grace weird?  Yeah.  Is Grace unsettling?  Yeah, in places, but it may be more so from the male perspective.  If you’re tired of some of the dumb horror offerings of late, then you need to see this movie.  Graceis the kind of movie you just have to watch, and it will mean different things to different [...]

While babysitting the neighbor’s kids, Casey finds the young son holding a mirror to the infant’s face.  Casey tells the little boy to stop; he tells her “Jumby wants to be born now,” and then hits Casey with the mirror.  The next day, on her jog, Casey discovers an ambulance at the neighbor’s house.  The baby [...]

One year after Laurie Strode survived her Halloween night of hell fighting deranged killer Michael Myers, she is still haunted by the experience and by disturbing dreams that make her think she is going slowly insane.  Michael killed her parents and most of her friends.  The medicine doesn’t keep the nightmares at bay, neither does talking to [...]

James McCullen’s weapons company MARS sells four nano-technology based warheads to NATO.  While being delivered by the United States Army, the squad are attacked, and if not for the G.I. Joe team, the warheads would have been lost.  The two surviving Army men, Duke and Ripcord, are escorted to the Joe base in Egypt.  The [...]

I’ve been secluded away on a somewhat sabbatical.  In truth, I’ve been kind of busy and haven’t had time to do much in the last week, and when I have had some free time, I’ve just been goofing.  But I’m trying to do better.
Over the last week or so, I’ve had a second (sometimes third or [...]

Wow, it’s July 29th already!  It’s almost friggin’ August!  Christmas will be here before we know it.  Do you ever get cravings for eggnog?  That boiled custard stuff is the bee’s knees.
I intended to do a middle of the year wrap up last month, since June is technically the half way point, but if you’ve [...]

The other day I was talking to someone about This Is Spinal Tap.  As I was watching Skeleton Crew I was reminded of the Spinal Tap observation that there is a fine line between clever and stupid.  Skeleton Crew almost achieves cleverness.
A film crew is making a movie, SILENT CREEK, about the Auteur, a mad doctor [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:  Two couples go into the woods for a relaxing weekend of camping and then begin disappearing one at a time.  I wish I could say Dead Wood had something more to offer on a familiar theme, but, other than an intriguing way of body disposal, it’s the [...]

The tagline for The Haunting In Connecticut is, “Some things cannot be explained.”  The main problem with this movie is it tries to explain.
Sara Campbell drives her cancer stricken son, Matt, eight hours from home every day to the hospital for trial treatments.  The treatments are bad enough, and the drive only adds to the pain.  Sara [...]

Inconsistent.  Disjointed.  Intriguing.  Overlong.  That’s the best way I can describe the Alex Proyas directed/Nicolas Cage headliner Knowing.  It has it’s flaws, that it almost completely overcomes, and is full of mysterious charm.
In 1959, an elementary school buries a time capsule to be opened fifty years in the future.  The children draw pictures of what they [...]