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One Sentence Review: Room 237 (2013)
Room 237 (2013) | Tickets Opens Friday, April 5 at Nitehawk Cinema Narrated by hyper-OCD detail freaks and absolutely bonkers conspiracy types, the brilliant and surprisingly funny Room 237 not only...
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One Sentence Review: ‘Evil Dead’ (2013)
I am the drooling fanboy that this film was made for, but despite a rather amusing blood-soaked climax and cute nods to the original’s music and camerawork, Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead doesn’t have the...
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One Sentence Review: This is 40 (2012)
I’m fairly positive that the life shown in This is 40 looks nothing like my life in four years.
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One Sentence Review: SHARKNADO (2013)
Combining everyone’s favorite genres (the shark and disaster movie) into one glorious shark-show, Sharknado dares to dream the impossible dream of super angry sharks being propelled through the air by...
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One Sentence Review: Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
Enforced psychiatry, madness, implied incest, pedophilia, and cannibalism: the subversive implications come to a beautifully manic and cathartic boil in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Suddenly Last Summer,...
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One Sentence Review: CORRUPTION (1968)
Throughout his career, Peter Cushing certainly played his fair share of scientists (evil, good, whatnot) but it’s safe to say none have been stranger than in this swinging 1060s take on Eyes Without a...
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One Sentence Review: MATCH POINT (2005)
Considering the acting abilities of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson are somewhat questionable, Woody Allen’s Match Point (essentially a re-imagining of his own Crimes and Misdemeanors) is...
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One Sentence Review: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
A surprisingly crafty and scary Spanish zombie movie with a bitterly satisfying ending, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie follows two hippies on the run from the law after they’ve been pegged for a series of...
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One Sentence Review: King Kong Lives (1986)
King Kong Lives (1986, Dir. John Guillermin) After ten years spent sleeping off his 1,368 foot drop from the top of the World Trade Center, Kong finds love with a lady Kong and rips men in half in...
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One Sentence Review: Torn Curtain (1966)
I can’t decide which part of Torn Curtain is the most exciting: watching Paul Newman and an old man write obscure math squiggles on a chalk board; his and Julie Andrews’ casual bicycle escape through...
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One Sentence Review: The Square (2013)
Jehane Noujaim’s (Control Room) new documentary, The Square, brings the abstract struggle of the ongoing Egyptian revolution into sharp perspective with incredible, on-the-ground HD footage of the...
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One Sentence Review: “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”
This part’s pretty good, though. I suspected that maybe I had been too hard on Steven Spielberg’s follow up to Jurassic Park back when I was a snotty 13-year-old; that maybe (maybe!) it’s actually...
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One Sentence Review: “Pain and Gain” (2013)
A kind of ‘roided up cousin to Spring Breakers and The Wolf of Wall Street, Pain and Gain allows a trio of dopey wannabes to live out their baller fantasies in a way that’s spry and funny, stepping on...
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One Sentence Review: The Monster Club (1980)
As dull as a thirty-year-old entry of Masterpiece Theater and about as scary, horror anthology The Monster Club would be a total snooze were it not for the incredible frame narrative that involves...
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