Category: THILLERS AND SUSPENSE
Antiviral (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) – Hollywood is a family affair. You need to look no further than all the Douglases Bridgeseses, and Coppolas (that plural was much easier, also didya know Nic Cage is a Coppola?) for evidence. Sometimes a family is even greedy enough to appropriate two last names as their own.
The Purge (2013)
By: Jake Turner (Three Beers) - After seeing the disturbing but effective trailer for this potentially spookfest, you would think that they would answer the questions about The Purge, but instead it’s turned into a 85 min Brinks Security ad with good acting and spurts of brutal violence. A Toast Let’s be certain that the premise
Sightseers (2013)
By: Liam Hoofe (Two Beers) - A caravanning holiday around the north of England hardly sounds like anything worth getting excited over, in fact its quite the opposite. Anyone whose ever visited the North of England will know that a lot of it is grey, overcast and incredibly mundane, but Ben Wheatley’s SightSeers takes this
Zodiac (2007)
By: Ayden Walker (A Toast) - Spielberg can do it. Tarantino can do it. Polanski can do it. The Coen brothers can do it. These filmmakers are capable of intriguing, captivating, disturbing, and sometimes amusing cinema-goers through one skill: dialogue. And David Fincher has proved a worthy addition to that list. This creepily dark thriller
Ghost (1990)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) – Continuing my trend of watching late 80s/early 90s cultural touchstone movies everybody but me has apparently seen, I recently watched Ghost. This one I pretty much expected to hate, what with all the ghost Swayzes and Whoopis and pageboy haircuts and Walmart bargain bin romance novel-caliber shirtless pottery
Shadow Dancer (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) – You may recognize James Marsh’s name from the world of documentaries, a genre that’s won him plenty of acclaim (Project Nim) and even an Oscar/a bit of mainstream success (Man on Wire). His work in fiction has flown quite a bit further under the radar, however. Maybe you
Erased (2013)
By: Matt Conway (Three Beers) - Its safe to say that at this point in our culture, action films have become the most popular genre in film today, with most of the biggest blockbuster films deriving from some sort of action sub-genre, such as superheroes and disaster films, and it’s no surprise why. Action films offer
Pieta (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) – South Korea has gotten quite the reputation as an exporter of delightful, fully little romantic comedies fit for the whole family. This summer, Pieta will roll into theaters, and right into your hearts… Record scratch Nope, this is South Korean critically acclaimed fare, and furthermore, it’s from provocateur
Shutter Island (2010)
By: Eddie Duncan (Two Beers) - In the wake of a classic turned movie’s recent premiere, The Great Gatsby for those left wondering, I thought it might be nice to take a short stroll down memory lane of one of the greatest actors of all time: Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Shutter Island’. Another book turned movie
Rear Window (1954)
By: B-Side (A Toast) - From the living room of an apartment building, bay windows look out onto a courtyard, a bit of street, and the corresponding windows of other apartments. Through those windows are people of all types and stripes, unaware they’re being observed. What do you see? What should you see? Rear Window is the kind of
