Movie Reviews

DVD Review: Cold Sweat (Sudor frío) Will Make You Think Twice About Online Dating

by Alex DiGiovanna

Today, January 17th, Dark Sky Films is releasing Adrián García Bogliano’s nitroglycerin-based thriller, Cold Sweat on DVD. This is my first experience with an Argentinean thriller/horror and it’s one that definitely caught me off guard. Only knowing that it...

DVD Review: ‘Chop’ is a B-Rated Horror/Comedy That’ll Make You Giggle

by Alex DiGiovanna

I’m not sure how I missed this one but on December 27, 2011, Bloody Disgusting Selects released Trent Haaga’s ridiculous horror comedy, Chop, on DVD. It stars Will Keenan, Timothy Muskatell, Mark Irvingsen and a slew of other B-rated...

Movie Review: ‘Contraband’ Is Just Another Foreign Remake That Fails

by Melissa Hanson

Watching the opening credits for Contraband, I caught that it was based off of the film, Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008). The original Icelandic film has received much praise and was Iceland’s official submission to 82nd Academy Award’s Foreign Language in 2010....

Movie Review: ‘Contraband’ Does Enough to get by my Customs’s Inspection

by Alex DiGiovanna

Who doesn’t like a good smuggling movie? They’re just like heist films except that they criminals aren’t stealing anything. Plus, what makes these movies fun is that the person who orchestrates the heist is almost always pretty smart and...

Movie Review: ‘Don’t Go in the Woods’ is a Failed Attempt at a Horror Musical

by Alex DiGiovanna

Don’t Go in the Woods is about a young band who head out to the woods for a weekend escape so that they can focus on their song writing and get the big break that they’ve been hoping for....

Movie Review: ‘The Grey’ is Liam Neeson’s Return to his Dramatic Roots

by Alex DiGiovanna

Starring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney and Ben Brey, The Grey tells the story of a group of oil drillers in Alaska whose plane crashes in the wilderness on their flight home. Only a handful of men survive...

Movie Review: ‘Loosies’ Is Loose on Plot, But Entertaining

by Melissa Hanson

Michael Corrente directs Peter Facinelli (Twilight Saga, Can’t Hardly Wait, Showtime’s Nurse Jackie), who wrote the story and the screenplay of Bobby, a young man struggling to keep his head above water as a pickpocket in New York City....

Blu-ray Review: ‘Shark Night’s 3D Lust Doesn’t Transfer well to the 2D World

by Alex DiGiovanna

When a movie is shot in 3D to make up for its crappier story, it uses typical 3D horror gimmicks to satisfy the audiences thirst. But people forget that when a movie is released on the home video market...

DVD Review: ‘Punished’

by Chris McKittrick

Filmmakers Johnnie To and Law Wing-cheong, who worked with each other on 2005′s awesome Hong Kong crime thriller Election, have reteamed on Punished (Bou ying), another thriller directed by Law and produced by To.  The DVD, soon to be...

Movie Review: ‘The Devil Inside’ Is FULL of SOMETHING… It’s Just Not the Devil

by Chris McKittrick

The Devil Inside sneaks into theaters this weekend — promotion for it didn’t even seem to start until a week ago — and with good reason.  Even though this is the first weekend of 2012 and this is also...

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