Arnie Carvalho

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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Reviewed Nov 3, 2020

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot. Genres: Drama, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Cloverfield

Looks like Godzilla is just as pissed about that Lost fin...

Reviewed Oct 30, 2020

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors: Shrieker Island

Aruba... Jamaica... Ooh I want a snake hunt...

Reviewed Oct 27, 2020

When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent creatures, and swiftly multiplying Shriekers! Genres: Action, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror

The House That Jack Built

So that's where Uma Thurman has been all this time!

Reviewed Oct 23, 2020

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years. Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell

What’s good for the Graboid is good for the Gummer

Reviewed Oct 20, 2020

Burt Gummer and Travis Welker find themselves in a fight for survival after investigating deadly giant worm attacks in the Canadian arctic. Genres: Action, Adventure, Direct to Video/Streaming, Science Fiction

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

Always Ready, Always There, Always Delicious

Reviewed Oct 16, 2020

A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors 5: Bloodlines

How To Eat Fried Worms

Reviewed Oct 13, 2020

When Gummer is hired to capture a deadly creature terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick, Travis Welker, engage in another battle of survival against the fiercely aggressive Graboids. Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Science Fiction

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Would you set me on fire? I'd set me on fire. I'd set me ...

Reviewed Oct 9, 2020

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins

Once Upon A Time In Perfection

Reviewed Oct 6, 2020

In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community. Genres: Action, Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Western

The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985)

Sleazy Riders

Reviewed Oct 2, 2020

A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors 3: Back to Perfection

I think we're more than six degrees away from Kevin Bacon...

Reviewed Sep 29, 2020

Survivalist Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, to find that the little town has been shaken up again by morphing, man-eating Graboids. Genres: Action, Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

You mean this isn’t the one with Julie Andrews twirling...

Reviewed Sep 25, 2020

Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Do you like Shriekers?

Reviewed Sep 22, 2020

Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil. Genres: Action, Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror

The Last House on the Left (2009)

It couldn’t possibly be more brutal than my subprime mo...

Reviewed Sep 18, 2020

When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget. Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tremors

Grabboids like to eat Bacon

Reviewed Sep 15, 2020

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground. Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

The Last House on the Left (1972)

One, two... Fred and Krug are coming for you!

Reviewed Sep 11, 2020

On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug. Genres: Crime, Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The New Mutants

The Fault In Our Bears

Reviewed Sep 8, 2020

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. Genres: Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Clerks

We hate loiterers, but love an audience. Isn't it ironic?

Reviewed Sep 4, 2020

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives. Genres: Comedy, Theatrical Release

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Yes Way! 2020 has a brand new theatrical movie to review!

Reviewed Sep 1, 2020

Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the stakes are higher than ever for the now middle-aged Bill and Ted who set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Time Travel

The Dark Crystal

Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Because this...

Reviewed Aug 28, 2020

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil. Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Theatrical Release

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

Station!

Reviewed Aug 25, 2020

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living. Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Time Travel

Cast Away

The tribe has spoken!

Reviewed Aug 21, 2020

Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home. Genres: Adventure, Drama, Theatrical Release

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

"We will have a most triumphant time!"

Reviewed Aug 18, 2020

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation. Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Time Travel

Deep Blue Sea 3

It's a Sea-Mageddon!

Reviewed Aug 14, 2020

Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks. Genres: Action, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Science Fiction