daily scream: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper
2005’s The Descent is on Max in the US and Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Descent
Hellboy (2019) movie review: boy, this is hell
Bounces from one preposterous setpiece to another across an inexcusably flavorless magical, monstrous world, and borderline incoherent as it races through the plots of half a dozen different films.
trailer break: ‘Centurion’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… A new movie from Neil Marshall, who gave us Dog Soldiers and The Descent? And starring Michael Fassbender and Noel “Mickey The Idiot Smith” Clarke? Yes, please. It’s just a bonus that it’s set in Roman Britain and features awesome Pictish chick warriors. Centurion is now playing … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Paranormal Activity’ jumps to No. 1
And new openers tank: 1. Paranormal Activity: £1.8 million (2nd week; drops 49%) 2. A Christmas Carol: £1.7 million 3. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: £1.6 million (3rd week; drops 62%) 4. Planet 51: £1.5 million (NEW) 5. Law Abiding Citizen: £.99 million (2nd week; drops 33%) (actual numbers, not estimates) The best a new … more…
August 7: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re too busy cooking your way through Julia Child’s magnum opus and blogging about it to get out of the house. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone … more…
The Descent movie review: classically scary
It may sound bizarre to say that a film about women under threat of vicious, violent death is a triumph of feminism, but there we are…
