Review: Let Him Go
Let Him Go is a slow burn. That takes a turn. That’ll make you squirm. Perhaps if you’ve read the 2013 novel “Let Him Go” by Larry Watson, the shocking…
Quickie Review: Honest Thief
Honestly, Liam, what were you thinking? Honest Thief is simply not worthy of your well-documented 'particular set of skills.' The plot is beyond paper thin, making this particular action crime…
Quickie Review: Killed My Wife
In this Korean thriller, a man wakes up from a drunken night. His clothes are covered in blood and he has no memory of how they got that way. But…
Quickie Review: Antebellum
Antebellum could have been a seminal film for the times - if the story made any sense. It aims high, but gets bogged down in a metaphorical morass about past…
Review: Sputnik
Russia, 1983. The Cold War is still raging. Two men are orbiting earth in a spacecraft, preparing for their reentry when there is an incident. And when they crash land…
Review: The Burnt Orange Heresy
The Burnt Orange Heresy is an ‘arty’ film, in more than ways than one. It drew me in early on, meandered ever so slowly in the middle, then came back…
Quickie Review: The Rental
The setup is all there for your usual thriller, with a few of the standard horror tropes thrown in. A couple of couples rent a house for the weekend in…
Review: 7500
If the coronavirus isn’t enough to keep you grounded, perhaps this will do the trick! Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the young, soft-spoken American co-pilot of a commercial flight from Berlin to…
Review: Extraction
It appears quite likely that battered and bloody mercenary-with-a-conscience Tyler Rake will live to see another day, and facilitate another extraction, amidst a barrage of gunfire, RPGs, exploding helicopters and…
Review: Resistance
When you think of mime, you naturally think of Marcel Marceau. But you probably don't know how he saved a group of Jewish orphans from the Nazis during World War…
Review: The Whistlers (La Gomera)
A beautiful woman. 30 million euros. A detective who's tired of his job. All the elements of a classic thriller are present in this Romanian film noir. Cristi (Vlad Ivanov)…
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COVID-19 Streaming List
Just in case you're caught at home wondering what you can do to pass the time, here's a list of films that, if you haven't seen, you should, and if…
Review: Swallow
This R-rated psychological thriller was a complete surprise to me. In a good way. It's a Stepford Wives meets #Girlpower story that has you yelling at the screen and wondering…
Review: Incitement
Talk about a film that is hard to watch! In this political thriller, you're watching the evolution of assassin Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halevi), a law student who decides that…
Review: Balloon (Ballon)
Seems like all I'm seeing lately are film based on true stories. In this one, two families living in Cold War East Germany in 1979 plan a daring escape to…