Tall Tale (1995)
Sep 23, 2007Characters from Wild West Legends
This has the promising idea of bringing together various mythic figures from the West like Pecos Bill and John Bunyan but then mishandles them in an oddly mundane depiction
Nick Stahl
Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Jul 2, 2005High School Mind Control Experiments
A smart and modestly enjoyable film that plays like a high school version of The Stepford Wives where troubled students are being brainwashed and turned into preppy high-achievers
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Jul 22, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Androids
After the highs of James Cameron’s first two Terminator films, this was a crashing disappointment. Schwarzenegger is back but his performance has become self-parody and the uninspired action sequences are accompanied by some terrible effects
Sin City (2005)
Aug 20, 2005Graphic Novel Adaptation/Ultra-Violent Film Noir Tales
Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novels is groundbreaking and one of the most visually adventurous films in years. A trio of film noir-styled tales where he sets out to replicate the look of Miller's comic panels
Mirrors 2 (2010)
Sep 1, 2021Haunted Mirrors
A sequel to Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors that abandons most of the basics of the first film and strips everything down to a series of gory, novelty deaths
388 Arletta Avenue (2011)
Jun 14, 2012Found Footage Stalker Film
Found Footage film about a stalker secretly filming a couple and abducting the wife, this tepidly circles around thriller cliches where other Found Footage films have delved into the psycho genre with more disturbing effect
Hunter Hunter (2020)
Aug 1, 2022Wolf Attack in the Woods
A solid and well-made film that creates quite a reasonable tension as a family that live in the woods deal with a lurking wolf. What is going on sits in an interesting state of ambiguity.
What Josiah Saw (2021)
Feb 20, 2023Southern Gothic
This is a superbly written and directed work of Southern Gothic that consists of three interwoven tales that gradually expose dark family secrets