There's a phrase they use down south, "too clever by a half" that may well describe Michael Haneke, director and writer of the Austrian thriller Funny Games . The film starts out as a tough, ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2002-11-10 01:00 - 0 comments

Kevin Williamson's I Know What You Did Last Summer is much more modest than his masterpiece Scream in many ways, but it is on an equal level in terms of quality. The story concerns four young adul ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-11 01:00 - 0 comments

Scream 2 is one of those rare sequels that reunites almost everyone from the original, on both sides of the screen. Horror master Wes Craven is again coupled with screenwriter Kevin Williamson, while Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Davi ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-10-12 01:59 - 0 comments

Cube , a 1997 film by Canadian writer/director Vincenzo Natale, was filmed on a single set, with a small cast, and a small budget. Part sci-fi horror, part experiment, part student film, it has all ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2003-03-08 01:00 - 0 comments

Alien Resurrection doesn't have any profound subtexts like Alien 3 . Like Aliens , it's more "Hollywoodish" than Alien or Alien 3 , but it's not quite a ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-05 01:00 - 0 comments

Often deceptively simple -- and isn't that appropriate -- The Devil's Advocate is one of my favorite films from 1997, and would rank at least in my top 50 for the decade. It's yet another film ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-09-27 00:00 - 0 comments

Viewing Premutos is like being a little kid again, waking up earlier than everyone else on Christmas Day to see what's under the tree. Let me just start off by saying I can't even remember the ...

Movie - Dellamorte - 2002-08-21 00:00 - 0 comments

Wes Craven's Wishmaster is darkly and nihilistically marvelous, an extremely enjoyable horror fantasy, even though it is heavily indebted to its influences at times as it treks through Evil Genie ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-08-04 00:00 - 0 comments

Based on an incident in 1972, a clash between a radical left wing student group and the police known as the Asama-Sanso incident, Kichiku Dai Enkai is one of the most notorious Japanese horror ...

Movie - Kairo - 2006-01-16 01:00 - 0 comments

Flip to any review of a television series with a strong female lead, any critical paper on modern pop culture, or any list of the top 10 television series of the 1990s, and you'll find the curiously ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-02-17 22:42 - 0 comments