Soylent Green: A Mark Bousquet Review

I’ve never watched SOYLENT GREEN because I know how it ends. Dumb. If you are like me and have avoided watching the movie because you know the big twist (which I won’t give away on the odd chance you’ve never heard of the film), rectify that mistake. Because while I knew where SOYLENT ended up, […]

The Ninth Configuration: A Mark Bousquet Review

If you like movies, go watch THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. (It’s streaming on Prime.) I almost don’t want to say anything about it because it’s such a unique film. It’s brilliant and terrible and confused and purposeful. It’s a mess and it always knows what it is. Things happen that have no bearing on anything else, […]

Ratched: S1

2020 Netflix/Further Films/Lighthouse Management+Media/Ryan Murphy Television/ Created by Evan Romansky Developed by Ryan Murphy Music by Mac Quayle Based on the character of Nurse Ratched from “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey and from the Saul Zaentz Company motion picture of the same title 8 Episodes Merriam-Webster defines Grand Guignol as being […]

The Twilight Zone Season Two Review by Sean E. Ali

If there were a theme running through the second season of Jordan Peele’s reboot of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it would be called… …the mean season. Peele still sticks to the spirit of Rod Serling’s brainchild, but there are a lot of episodes that would’ve fit more in the horror vein as a continuation of Serling’s […]

Crawl

2019 Raimi Productions/Fire Axe Pictures/Paramount Pictures Directed by Alexandre Aja Produced by Craig J. Flores/Sam Raimi/Alexandre Aja Written by Michael Rasmussen/Shawn Rasmussen Music by Max Aruj/Steffan Thum Cinematography by Maxime Alexandre Edited By Eliot Greenberg I have to admit with no shame at all that I do so love that I no longer have to […]

The Lighthouse: A Mark Bousquet Review

Directed by Robert Eggers Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson I always feel a bit of pressure to give a film like THE LIGHTHOUSE a better rating. No, not because I once planned to write a book (or maybe I did …?) way back in the MV1 days called THE LIGHTHOUSE, but because we need […]

Us

2019 Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/Universal Pictures Written and Directed by Jordan Peele Produced by Jordan Peele/Jason Blum/Ian Cooper/Sean McKittrick Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis Edited by Nicholas Monsour Music by Michael Abels Saying that fans of Jordan Peele were anxiously waiting for his follow-up to “Get Out” is a serious understatement. “Get Out” was such a cultural/entertainment […]

Happy Death Day 2U

2019 Blumhouse Productions/Universal Pictures Written and Directed by Christopher Landon Produced by Jason Blum Based on characters created by Scott Lobdell Cinematography by Toby Oliver Edited by Ben Baudhuin Music by Bear McCreary One thing I love about the two “Happy Death Day” movies is that they are not ashamed of or try to hide […]

Happy Death Day

2017 Blumhouse Productions/Universal Pictures Directed by Christopher Landon Produced by Jason Blum Written by Scott Lobdell Music by Bear McCreary Cinematography by Toby Oliver Edited by Gregory Plotkin I love how HAPPY DEATH DAY is blatantly upfront with its premise. It doesn’t try to pretend it’s something groundbreaking or particularly innovative in its premise. It […]

The City of The Dead (Horror Hotel)

1960 Vulcan Films Directed by John Llewellyn Moxley Produced by Max Rosenberg/Milton Subotsky Screenplay by George Baxt Story by Milton Subotsky A beautiful young woman travels to a remote, strange hotel. At this hotel she encounters the hotel owner/manager who is shall we say…odd in behavior and demeanor. The young woman is brutally and horrifically […]