My quick rating - 4.6/10. Well, Michelle Monaghan was great in this flick. Her son is bitten by the family dog, and soon after, the kid realizes, while in the hospital, that he must drink fresh blood to survive. Why she ends up so good is how she plays out a single mother who will literally do whatever is necessary to keep her son alive and well. Monaghan is really the only point to watching this flick since it never gets exciting, never turns down a horror road with gore o

My quick rating - 7.2/10. Another Oscar nominee for best picture. Austin Butler was excellent in his depiction of Elvis. Oftentimes, he was holding this movie together since Baz Luhrmann has a tendency to get a bit lost in his own flicks. One thing that stuck out to me in this is the complete lack of addressing the drug problem that Elvis had. I understand trying to keep with the all-American image, but if you are going to show the highs and lows of a legend's career such a

My quick rating - 2.4/10. More of a PSA that this is one of the worst documentaries I have seen on really any subject. But to make matters worse, this is a subject I am very interested in and have always tried to read/watch all I can on it. But between the constant annoying music playing in the background and the completely pointless and unrelated videos playing, it is just so amateur. At least they got the verdict about him being Jack the Ripper correct. No one in their righ

My quick rating - 7.6/10. Time to get to this year's Oscar nominations for best picture. I have already reviewed Top Gun , so that leaves 9 more to get to reviewing (8 more to watch). It isn't an easy task to make you feel actually empathetic towards German soldiers, but this movie does about as good a job at that as can be possible. Director Edward Berger is able to capture what I would think is a very real transition from being patriotic for the cause of fighting for your

My quick rating - 3.4/10. I checked out the first Full Moon flick from this series back in August 2022 and was pleasantly surprised ( link ). I didn't know a sequel was coming, but here it is, and at 65 minutes, it fits the bill nicely. I had no idea women have so much fun in the showers. Nice of this flick to give us about 10 minutes of video evidence of it. They had to use this to set up the dumb frat guys to get caught videotaping them. Because a movie like this needs to

My quick rating - 3.8/10. So far, we have a monster flick that has some above-average production quality attached to it. There is a reason why movies like Anaconda or Lake Placid are entertaining even though they may not be considered "Good," and that is because they have fun with their campiness. This movie is the exact opposite of that. As I was watching, I really wanted to like this flick. Unknown creature in the woods, very good quality camerawork, but then the dialogue s

My quick rating - 4.7/10. It isn't that this is a good movie, but it grew on me. It has a sort of grindhouse feel like the 70s-80s horror flicks, when they focused on the satanic cults being the main source of evil. Nostalgia aside, the plot is pretty much paper-thin. A group of people is attacked in the middle of nowhere by a cult, and one of them escapes to a secluded house. Our heroine ( Mya Hudson ) meets a typical character, London May , who is forced into being the her

My quick rating - 3.6/10. Needed a short flick, so this fits at 61 minutes. Also, it didn't take long to see that this is a quick B-budget slasher flick. A group of horrible actors, I mean, old friends, decide to get together for a reunion of sorts since they basically all live in the same town. But when some coworker is invited along for the ride, an escaped asylum inmate happens upon the group, and the fun immediately begins. I use the term fun quite loosely since the budge

My quick rating - 2.8/10. I saw a trailer a while back and thought this one looked creepy. It is one of my least favorites, a found footage type flick, sorta. It is more just constant camera cuts showing different angles of footage. Sometimes these angles appear to be from the children's perspectives. Very "experimental" type of film style, for lack of a better way to put it. So far seems to be a massive test of the viewer's patience. I don't mind a slow burn, especially sinc

My quick rating - 6.5/10. Entertaining, although an extremely tame horror flick, written in part by James Wan . I am sure that you have a...

My quick rating - 7.5/10. (That was from when I watched this in Indonesian with subtitles. I now have a dubbed & uncut version that is eye-friendly, so I'll see if it changes). The story is quite simple. A corrupt police force is sent in to bust a paranoid crime lord's 30-story drug haven. I would love to say I noticed the differences in this uncut version, but I did watch it the first time about a decade ago, so there wasn't anything that jumped out at me. However, that didn

My quick rating - 5.9/10. Fans of Zombie movies should read this. It will not be what you are expecting. Yes, there are zombies, and yes, they get shot....but this movie is so much more than that. This flick is completely character-driven, and the plot is so much more than a zombie flick. Set just after the Civil War, an unlikely couple ends up trying to save one dude's sister. This movie looks incredible, and the scenes really caught me off guard. The acting is excellent for

My quick rating - 3.7/10. Final flick in the Knight trilogy ( Rogue and Redemption ), and since I have seen the other two, which had some entertainment value, I may as well wrap it up. Hey, look at that, it is Dizzy ( Dina Meyer ) from the cult flick, Starship Troopers . This flick is proving that you cannot take just anyone and make him the villain. Yeah, everyone not named Bruce Willis or Lochlyn Munro in this movie is absolutely worthless, but the kid they picked as the

My quick rating - 5.5/10. Even though he seems like a douche, I have always been a fan of Stephen Dorff , especially after the criminally underrated Botched . Speaking of, this movie has a similar wrong guy at the entirely wrong place vibe, such as that flick had. This time, Dorff is hired to rob a pawn shop, in the middle of some small town, that has 250K in cash (i think that was the amount) on hand. Never mind how there is no WAY in hell they would have that much cash, it

My quick rating - 2.3/10. Saw a trailer about a month ago and thought this one was worthy of a look (like I wouldn't have watched it anyway.) You know what would be more exciting than this movie? Staring out the window and watching the SNOW FALL. A group of mostly annoying adults head to a cabin during the winter, but after the power goes out, they start acting like irrational morons. You are supposed to think they are losing their minds, or the snow is inherently evil, but i

My quick rating - 6.6/10. Did the Rock appear in every movie throughout the summer of 2013? Anyway, this movie is based on a true story, which makes it that much better when you see it. Reason for this? These "criminals" have to be the dumbest people in the world. The story revolves around 3 fitness trainers or muscleheads who decide they want better things in life. Well, of course, the best way to get them is to steal them. The mastermind of this is Danny Lugo (played by Mar

My quick rating - 4.8/10. I figured I'd give something a bit different a try. Westerns aren't my typical go-to. But this keeps popping up on the Firecubes Amazon banner, so why not? It was pretty easy to pick out the star of the show, and it was NOT Nicolas Cage . He did have a bit of a bounce back recently with a couple of decent flicks, so I was hoping it was just a spell of poor choices, but this one is mediocre at absolute best. I swear, it seems that he can act so well

My quick rating - 7,1/10. After checking out the first one, I am eager to see this sequel. This time the family has moved to an apartment...

My quick rating - 6,6/10. After enjoying the first Enola Holmes reasonably well, it is time to check out the sequel. Millie Bobby Brown...

My quick rating - 6.9/10. This and its sequel have made "best of" horror lists for their respective years, so I am going to check them out finally. Reading subtitles is a hassle with my eyes as of late, so I procrastinate. Very atmospheric with the camerawork and lack of sound at the right time to really suck you in for the scares. The family is torn apart initially when the mother passes away mysteriously to start this one. But there seems to be far more going on than just a