"Sicario", Violently Good!
Director Dennis Villenueve brings us Sicario, an edge of your seat crime thriller starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio del Toro. Blunt plays FBI SWAT agent Kate Macer who is hired on in a joint task force mission to take down a leading drug lord. On top of that, the task force also brings on a particular expert named Alejandro (del Toro). Tensions rises at the border between the United States and Mexico, as well as with Kate and Alejandro, as the FBI agent starts to questions the motives of her mission as well Alejandro. Sicario is f…
"Spring Breakers" or What Happens When You Mix A Clockwork Orange, Scarface, and MTV
When I heard about Spring Breakers, a film about a group of college girls who attend a Spring Break bash in Florida, which stars former Disney Channel stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, I thought it was going to be a light-hearted teen comedy about these girls getting into shenanigans and finding romance during Spring Break, so of course I had no interest in it. Then when I saw the first trailer for Spring Breakers , it was not that all. It seemed like it was going to be a crime-drama story about these girls partying way too hard, end up …
CHRISTMAS REVIEW OF THE DAY: Die Hard (1988)
Is there such thing as a Christmas film that does take place during the Christmas season but it's content have nothing to do with Christmas, yet it is a movie that audiences are willing to watch around this time of year? Of course there is, and that movie is the 1988 action blockbuster Die Hard. The film stars Bruce Willis as a New York cop named John McClane who visits Los Angeles to meet up with his estranged wife for a Christmas party at the high rise she works at. But when a group of German terrorists crash the party and hold the civil…
HALLOWEEN REVIEW OF THE DAY: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Silence of the Lambs by many is considered to be one of the most terrifying movies ever to be put out in cinema. Well we all know the reason of that, thanks to Anthony Hopkins performance of the ever so charismatic yet psychotic and villainous cannibal Hannibal Lector. But before I get to what everybody else remembers about the movie, I will be looking at the things that are not well quite overlooked whenever there is a discussion about this film but definitely not talked about enough as Hannibal. First there's our main protagonist Clarice…
HALLOWEEN REVIEW OF THE DAY: Jaws (1975)
A film about the dangerous side of nature, Jaws is about a killer great white shark that eats people alive near a small New England island. Originally supposed to be a rushed B-Movie, director Steven Spielberg decided to add so much to this film that were risky during actual production, but more than worth it when the finished product was released to the general public. This film back in the summer of 1975 actually scared people away from the beaches because they did not want to experience the horrors that were featured in this film. The idea …
HALLOWEEN REVIEW OF THE DAY: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead is often considered the essential zombie movie. I am not sure if it is the first but what I do know is that it is definitley one of the most famous. When I saw this film for the first time, I have to say I had a pretty interesting experience. For one, most of the characters, I CANNOT stand! There's a family with the father who thinks he's the smartest person in the hiding house, and is completely obssesed with basement, even though hiding in the basement wouldn't be such a good idea. But the biggest idiot o…
HALLOWEEN REVIEW OF THE DAY: The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting is a classic horror film directed by famed director Robert Wise; it is a film about how many of your fears can exist and how dangerous they can be that they can mess with your mind. This a very clever ghost story because throughout the film you never know how much of the supernatural elements are real, you do not even know if they are real or not. Throughout the film we follow the story of our tortured protagonist Eleanor as she is invited to an abandoned mansion by a paranormal scientist along with another woman and a jock to stu…
