Bloody Revenge, Bare-Knuckle Thrills, and Family Drama: Out of the Furnace Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On December 8 2013 05:16 PM
Over the past few years, it seems that it has become routine for Hollywood to release one or two rundown drama-thrillers a year that feature blue collar characters having it out with one another in a gasping American neighborhood that ...
Fast Cars, Fast Action, Fierce Rivalry: Rush Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On September 28 2013 12:19 PM
In 1976, little Opie Taylor himself Ron Howard starred in the Roger Corman car chase movie called Eat My Dust, agreeing to be in the film if B-movie king Corman would let him direct his own picture down the line. ...
Sick, Twisted, and Hilarious: ‘You’re Next’ Advanced Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 9 2013 02:42 PM
It’s extremely rare for Hollywood to muster up one semi-decent horror movie a year. Sure, there is always one or two that manage to generate a little bit of buzz before coming out, but once its on the market, they ...
Home Invasion Clichés: The Purge Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On June 9 2013 09:12 AM
After four weeks of hulking action blockbusters, Hollywood has finally decided to take a breather and offer up a smaller scale horror-thriller. On paper and in the Universal Studios boardroom, director James DeMonaco’s The Purge probably sounded like a great ...
A Decade of Desperation and Suspense: Zero Dark Thirty
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On January 13 2013 11:52 AM
After becoming the first woman ever to receive a Best Director Oscar for the 2009 teeth-rattler The Hurt Locker, the world anxiously awaited to see what director Kathryn Bigelow would produce next. It turned out that the next project she ...
Looper: A Fresh but Flawed Science Fiction Thriller
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On September 29 2012 11:05 AM
For quite some time, I’ve been griping about the never-ending stream of recycled ideas coming out of Hollywood over the past few years. I’d say that one of the most original films I’ve seen recently is without question Christopher Nolan’s ...
Movie Review: Savages
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 13 2012 12:13 PM
Controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone has plenty of hits to his name. He penned Scarface and directed classics like Platoon, Wall Street, The Doors, JFK, and Natural Born Killers, to name a few. After a string of misfires and a hurried ...
Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On May 27 2012 11:37 AM
A few years ago, I happened to catch an episode of Sy-Fy’s Destination Truth, the reality show where obnoxious douche bag Josh Gates hunts down paranormal entities and other beasties around the world. In the episode, the extremely unfunny Gates ...
Transformers do Thriller
In Geektastic | By AverageThomas | On April 11 2011 07:35 AM
Call it absurdity if you want, but you know you're more excited to see the Transformers do the THRILLER dance than you are to see Transformers 3.
