The Vast of Night: A Mark Bousquet Review

Balder bless filmmakers who know how to make a 90-minute movie. Seems like everything these days is a 2 hour and 45 minute epic, and that’s fine, but sometimes I just want to watch a movie that’s not going to involve hitting pause so I can take the dog out. With THE VAST OF NIGHT […]

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, […]

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 […]

Brown Paper Bag

2019 Knuckle Sandwich Productions/Indie Rights Written and Directed by Detdrich McClure Produced by David Douglas/Kiarra Graves/Raymond James Herrera/LaCora Stephens/Detdrich McClure Music by Jairo Duarte-Lopez/Michael Eremiasova Cinematography by Adam Gan Edited by Brian Uskokovich When Patricia and I get together in the evenings to watch a movie I like to let her pick what we watch. […]

Shadow

2019 Motion Story Productions/Netflix Created by Philip Wolmarans/Fred Wolmarans/Nick Keulemans/Gareth Crocker Executive Producers: Chris Lawrance/Colleen Lawrance If you spent enough time in my company in recent years then you’ve most likely heard me carrying on whining and complaining about two things; #1: TV series filled with way too much padding and bloat. Series that have […]

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 […]

Blade Runner 2049

Alcon Entertainment/Columbia Pictures/Scott Free Productions/Torridon Films/16:14 Entertainment/Thunderbird Entertainment/Warner Bros./Sony Pictures Directed by Denis Villeneueve Produced by Andrew A. Kosove/Broderick Johnson/Bud Yorkin/Cynthia Sikes Yorkin Screenplay by Hampton Fancher/Michael Green Story by Hampton Fancher Based on characters from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick Based on his past track record with me, I […]

Isle Of The Dead

1945 RKO RADIO PICTURES Directed by Mark Robson Produced by Val Lewton Written by Ardel Wray Music by Leigh Harline Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie Edited by Lyle Boyer Those of you who are fans of horror movies are probably well acquainted with the career of Val Lewton. Even though he didn’t direct any of his […]