Tell-Tale (2009)
Sep 21, 2010Possessed Transplant Organ
This is supposedly an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story The Tell-Tale Heart but it throws out all semblance to the story and instead tells a possessed transplant limb tale
Michael Kenneth Williams
Life During Wartime (2009)
Dec 31, 2009Interwoven Dramas/Ghosts of Ex Boyfriends
Todd Solondz is one of the finest US indie directors. This sequel to his masterpiece Happiness lacks the original's savage bite and is his weakest work to date
The Road (2009)
Nov 30, 2009Grim Post-Holocaust Survivalism
The extraordinary poetry of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man trying to retain his humanity amid the harsh struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world is necessarily weakened in being translated to screen but the film still does a fine job of capturing the essence of the book
Ghostbusters (2016)
Jul 23, 2016Team of Spook Chasers Comedy
There was a lot of hate centred on this for recasting what is considered a classic film with an all-girl cast. It emerges mostly likeably, no better, no worse on the whole, where the new ensemble make a solid showing