mother! is a cinematic experience like no other and features Jennifer Lawrence's best role to date and a story that's as crazy as they can get. There's a point about halfway through Darren Aronofsky's mother! where you're still in the dark on what the film is about, a bit confused, and ultimately weirded out by the film. But…
Wind River finds screenwriter Taylor Sheridan taking the director's chair with thrilling results and stellar performances from Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner. Wind River opens with a terrifying shot of a woman running barefoot through the snowy and isolated landscape of Wyoming. She falls to her knees. We never see who or what is chasing her.…
Red Sparrow delivers a thinly plotted, gratuitous espionage thriller that fails to take off despite a strong cast (with some questionable accents) At the end of Red Sparrow, the entire audience at the screening all physically recoiled when the screen cut to black. A few seconds after that, someone began to slow clap sarcastically and…
Split is an incredibly tense and well-made thriller that features fantastic performances by James McAvoy and Anya Taylor Joy. M. Night Shyamalan is back, for better or worst. The last Shyamalan movie I watched was 2008's The Happening, so you could understand my hesitance going into this movie. Although I heard mostly good things about his last…
Midnight Special proves that you don't need huge explosions, action set pieces, or over-the-top special effects to make a great sci-fi movie The 80s are back in style. From Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION to Stranger Things to Everybody Wants Some, it seems like Hollywood had a board meeting and decided that this is the decade we're…
Tense, grizzly, and incredibly well-made, Green Room is a unique and incredibly strong entry in the thriller genre. What can I say about Jeremy Saulnier's dark and twisted Green Room that hasn't already been said? It's a movie that has never truly existed until now. Maybe the general premise has, but the way Saulnier tackles it is unique in almost…
Max Records gives one of the best performances of the year in the creepy and darkly funny I Am Not A Serial Killer. Animal cruelty, calling living things “it”, stalking, and wetting the bed. These are the four predictors of a serial killer. John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records) has them all. However, as the title suggests, he…
Atmospheric and suspenseful, The Invitation is a blast to watch and easily one of the best movies of the year so far If you haven’t watched The Invitation yet, open up Amazon or iTunes and watch it right now. I’ve said it about other movies, but if I had to choose one movie for you to…
Though it doesn't quite reach the potential of its premise, Oculus packs in enough tension to make it a solid horror movie Yet another entry in the psychological horror rooted in childhood emotional trauma genre. Running in two different timelines, Oculus follows a brother and sister as they try to destroy a mirror that contained the ghosts…
A great homage to the 70s crime films, A Most Violent Year doesn't need flash to be an intense thriller There’s a scene about a third of the way through A Most Violent Year that outlines exactly what the movie is about. After striking a deer on their way home from a dinner, Abel (Oscar Isaac) gets out…
