Film reviews, entertainment news, and insight.
Posts tagged Crime
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans (2009)
Dec 26th
Director: Werner Herzog | Rated: R | Review date: 26-Dec-2009
Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans is a loose remake of 1992′s The Bad Lieutenant which starred Harvey Keitel as a junkie and gambling addicted police officer. In the update, Nicolas Cage plays detective Terrance McDonagh in post-Katrina New Orleans. On the surface, the lieutenant is a star officer: making big busts, taking heroic risks to save lives, and looking out for the good of the community. Deeper down, however, we find the lieutenant hides personal demons which slowly become more prevalent after an on the job injury.
Cage is More >
Smash Cut (2009)
Dec 25th
Rated: n/a (extreme gore) | Review date: 25-Dec-2009
The team of director Lee Demarbre and writer Ian Driscoll, who brought us titles such as Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and The Dead Sleep Easy, pair up again for Smash Cut. The film follows independent filmmaker Able Whitman, played by David Hess, who begins to question his faith in his craft after his latest film received negative reviews. Able seeks inspiration from his stripper friend and muse Georgina Carson aka Gigi Spot. After a late night accident, Able thinks he’s found a new formula to create the most believable horror movies in existence.
Sasha More >
Martin (1977)
Oct 25th
Rated: R | Review date: 25-Oct-2009
George A. Romero’s “Martin” is a rare gem in the horror world. It’s highly original concept plays well between genres, making it hard to classify. With a shoestring budget and a cast primarily made up of unknowns, “Martin” is a thought-provoking and thorough character study that’s rarely been rivaled to this day.
The story follows the title character, played by John Amplas (Day of the Dead), as he ventures to a small Pittsburgh town to live with his much older cousin (Lincoln Maazel), who’s slightly reluctant to have Martin in his home. Martin’s cousin, Tada Cuda, More >
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)
Oct 12th
aka Death House
Rated R | Review date: 13-Oct-2009
In spirit of Halloween being around the corner, I plan on releasing nothing but horror reviews for the remainder of October. To start things off, I’ve pulled a cult classic, Silent Night, Bloody Night.
Silent Night, Bloody Night was directed and written by the late Theodore Gershuny, and it was his last feature film (he only directed three in his career). What he left us with was a low-budget horror masterpiece. The movie opens up with a narration by Diane Adams (Mary Woronov; The Devils Rejects), setting the tone for this creepy chiller. The More >
Assassination of a High School President (2008)
Oct 10th
Who said there’s nothing left to do with high school comedies?
Rated R | Review date: 10-Oct-2009
Up and coming director Brett Simon’s Assassination of a High School President takes the high school comedy to a whole new level. It provides a take on neo-noir detective films mixed with classic high school situations and humor. The story is partially narrated by Sophomore school newspaper reporter and all-around nobody Bobby Funke (Reece Thompson; Rocket Science) as he attempts to write a groundbreaking story to rock the Catholic high school as well as to earn a summer scholarship at Northwestern University. His story begins More >
