
The Belko Experiment movie review: team-killing exercise
A one-note scenario that never ups the ante on itself, and never even bothers to use its extreme situation to send up office politics or corporate policies.
A one-note scenario that never ups the ante on itself, and never even bothers to use its extreme situation to send up office politics or corporate policies.
The simple elegance of the first film has been lost in a jumbled mess that sometimes hits on fresh angles on ghost stories but most often is shoddy, sloppy, and lazy.
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
There is too much awesome in this fantastic (and fantastical) premise for a proper geek girl such as myself to be properly rational about her anticipation. I know I expected too much. But, you know, the movie, it sort of promised a lot.
Where does the “night” part come in? Cuz it’s broad daylight in 99.99 percent of this trailer.
I can’t help but recall Eddie Murphy’s standup bit in which he suggested — this is decades ago now — that when a scary voice in your haunted house tells you to “Gettttt outtttt!” the best thing to do is leave…
Hollywood just isn’t even pretending anymore that they’re merely recycling the same stuff over and over again.
It’s so common these days that I’ve stopped thinking about it as unusual: Lots of movies simply are not screened for critics before they open. (I’ve even stopped bothering to keep a list of these movies, which I did last year and started this year before it just got too depressing.) So I didn’t think … more…
Here are the thoughts I jotted down, pretty much in order as they occurred to me as I watched…
The little horror movie that could just keeps on keeping on: 1. Paranormal Activity: $21.1 million (2nd week in wide release; more than doubled its number of screens; up 8%) 2. Saw VI: $14.1 million (NEW) 3. Where the Wild Things Are: $14 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 4. Law Abiding Citizen: $12.4 million (2nd … more…