Reviews

[SXSW Review] Housebound

Housebound takes the sealed bottle horror genre and waltzes right up to it, telling it that everything you expect, the characters expect as well, and lets thing...

[Review] The Den

Nothing indicates the evolution of independent found footage horror more than the camera. In 1999, the sub-genre's granddaddy, Blair Witch Project, was shot wit...

[SXSW Review] Neighbors

Feeling refreshed and shocked are durable signs that a comedy has delivered, but most of all, one wants laughs. As subjective as that factor may be, director Ni...

[SXSW Review] Honeymoon

Honeymoon is a kind of Trojan horse; going in cold and not knowing that its playing in the “Midnighters” section of SXSW, you’d think you were in just another f...

[Review] Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Perhaps like the key demographic for DreamWorks' latest animation, I must begin by admitting I had been unfamiliar with the source material, Peabody’s Improbabl...

[SXSW Review] Harmontown

We all know our own flaws, but change can be so devastatingly difficult to accomplish that it can haunt some people. Whether it is alcoholism or other kinds of ...

[SXSW Review] Chef

How close is too close to home? That has to be the question going through the mind of anyone familiar with the last decade of Jon Favreau’s career while watchin...

[Review] Repentance

Set in gothic New Orleans, the first act of Repentance seems to offer more than its second and third acts deliver. One has to give director Philippe Caland poin...

[Review] Awful Nice

Homer Simpson once described Branson, the setting for Todd Sklar’s Awful Nice, as “Vegas run by Ned Flanders.”  With that said, like the Cedar Rapids of Miguel ...

[Review] Blood Glacier

Blood Glacier boldly announces itself before running through a list of familiar horror movie tropes. A team of scientists led by the burly and morose Janek (Ger...