Small budgets can inspire tremendous end products as it forces the filmmakers to become increasingly creative to make their film feel authentic, complete, and worthy of our attention. The Endless chec…
Movie Review: First Kill
The opening shot of the movie may be its best. The remainder of the movie is very mediocre. Hayden Christensen stars as a father on a mission to rescue his kidnapped young son with Bruce Willis playin…
Review: 47 Meters Down
Few movies can make you cringe and clench your teeth, but 47 Meters Down is one of those movies, completely packed to the brim with tension. Mandy Moore and CW favorite Claire Holt play sisters vacati…
Movie Review: Unforgettable
No one will confuse Unforgettable with being an unforgettable movie. We have seen this story plenty of times before wit the ”crazy white female” that is obsessed over her ex and his new pa…
Interview: The Shadow Effect
I was given the chance to check out a film made by brothers Amariah and Obin Olson called The Shadow Effect. I also managed to get an interview with one of the brothers, Amariah, to talk about the cha…
From the Record Crate: Michael Jackson – “Thriller” (1982)
Like many people, I grew up with Michael Jackson’s music playing constantly—wafting through the kitchen as my mom cooked dinner, pumping through the car as I drove to tennis lessons, even thrumming qu…
Movie Review: The King
No two words coalesce into satire the way capitalism and hedonism do, the two ideas have been appropriated by filmmakers for decades but it wasn’t until Martin Scorsese’s bacchanalian epic The Wolf of…