In Killing Season, John Travolta plays Emil Kovac, a member of the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary group that committed war crimes during the Bosnian War in the early 1990s. As the film opens, we see American soldiers liberating some of the Bosnian people from one of the Scorpions’ detention camps.Continue Reading
White Bird in a Blizzard tells the story of Katrina Connors (Shailene Woodley) and her family. Kat is a young woman growing up in a suburban neighborhood in the late 80s. Kat comes home from school one day to find that her mother, Eve (Eva Green,) has mysteriously disappeared. HerContinue Reading
Corporate podcaster Allen (Jasper Hammer) hosts a show called U.S. Sane that features conspiracy theorists and an odd assortment of characters. Allen chooses his subjects from a mail container labeled “Box of Freaks.” After one of the guests commits suicide during a live broadcast, Allen loses his job and facesContinue Reading
As I noted in my review of Assassin 33 A.D., I don’t usually review faith-based movies. Due to their intended audience, they’re inherently review-proof. In the case of Nefarious, I didn’t know going in that it was a faith-based film. Although marketed as a mainstream horror movie, Nefarious unveils itselfContinue Reading
The poster for The Lake, a 2022 creature feature from Thailand, features the tagline “A Monster Will Rise.” And, indeed, a monster does rise. Two of them, in fact. Unfortunately, no one bothered to figure out what to do with these creatures afterwards. So, rise they do. And then theyContinue Reading
It’s been a while since I’ve subjected myself to one of writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s films. I believe the last one I watched was Glass in 2019. That movie, like much of Shyamalan’s recent work, was disappointing. I haven’t yet bothered to watch 2021’s Old mainly because reviews have saidContinue Reading
I was only a few minutes into Zero Hour! when I recognized the name Ted Striker or, as it is spelled in the movie, Ted Stryker. The name of the protagonist of this 1957 thriller, as played by Dana Andrews, is the same as the protagonist of 1980’s Airplane!, asContinue Reading