• February 8, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Mystery

I had heard buzz about The Door in the Floor when it was initially released, especially for Jeff Bridges’ performance (which doesn’t surprise me, as he is one of...

• December 21, 2013
• At Home, Mystery, Thriller

Almost from the opening frames, I couldn’t help but notice that Shutter Island oozes with style. From the booming Hitchcockian soundtrack to the arty and transfixing flashbacks, you can...

• December 21, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

I’m not a fan of the Affleck boys and their Boston-centric, f-word laden style of moviemaking, but I have to confess that I was mightily impressed by Gone Baby...

• December 21, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alrighty, I’ll readily admit that I’ve been sitting on this review for awhile. I saw Mystic River several months ago, and since then have had pounded into me the...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

According to screenwriting guru Syd Field, Chinatown may well be the most brilliant screenplay ever written. I’m inclined to think he’s right. Despite having watched the film about five...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Hey kids! Look what’s out just in time for Halloween—it’s the new Amityville Horror! What the world really needs is an Amityville movie at least every five years, and...

• October 27, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Horror, Mystery

The Uninvited is a mish-mash ghost story that combines elements of The Sixth Sense with an Asian horror movie (it is based on the Korean chiller A Tale of...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

There’s just something creepy about some urban legends and how they sometimes become self-fulfilling prophecies. If you plant a suggestion of something—like inevitable death—into someone’s mind, sooner or later...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Richard Gere plays a Washington Post reporter whose lovely wife (Debra Messing) tragically dies shortly after a car accident right after they purchase an American Dream home. As she...

• October 12, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

I always imagined that The Wicker Man would be about a great big Wicker Man lumbering across the countryside, wreaking havoc and scaring the bumpkins. Oh, and he’d also...

• September 29, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

David Fincher’s Zodiac is a curious film. An extremely earnest recounting of the serial killer murders in the Bay Area in the late 60s and early 70s, the film...

• September 23, 2013
• Action, At Home, Crime, Mystery

Despite the fact that I flat-out couldn’t finish The Polar Express and have no idea how it ends, I feel like Night Train would make a perfect sequel.  It’s...