Movie Review Archives

Warrior

The unabridged Moby Dick audiobook runs 24 hours and 49 m...

Reviewed Mar 3, 2023

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother. Genres: Action, Drama

Dracula Untold

Bat Man Forever

Reviewed Feb 28, 2023

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula. Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Brown Arrow

Waterworld

Dances With Whales

Reviewed Feb 24, 2023

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Catch Me If You Kang

Reviewed Feb 21, 2023

Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope's parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Brazil

Welcome to the Team!

Reviewed Feb 17, 2023

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies. Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

I never drink… wine (unless it comes from the Coppola v...

Reviewed Feb 14, 2023

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down. Genres: Horror, Romance

Knock at the Cabin

The Sixth Nonsense

Reviewed Feb 10, 2023

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost. Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Dracula

Stayin’ Alive 

Reviewed Feb 7, 2023

In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Subconscious Uncoupling

Reviewed Feb 3, 2023

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake. Genres: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Son of Dracula

The Big Slurp

Reviewed Jan 31, 2023

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world. Genres: Horror

About Schmidt

Uneasy Rider

Reviewed Jan 27, 2023

A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. Genres: Comedy, Drama

Dracula’s Daughter

Daddy’s Little Ghoul

Reviewed Jan 24, 2023

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings. Genres: Horror

THX 1138

The Empire Strikes Baldies

Reviewed Jan 20, 2023

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction

Dracula

The Original Pain in the Neck 

Reviewed Jan 17, 2023

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites. Genres: Horror

Soylent Green

Where’s the beef?

Reviewed Jan 13, 2023

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green. Genres: Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Somehow I didn’t imagine the children of the night maki...

Reviewed Jan 10, 2023

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Genres: Drama, Horror

Fahrenheit 451

The Arson Chronicles

Reviewed Jan 6, 2023

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation… Genres: Drama, Science Fiction

Nosferatu

This guy invented lurking

Reviewed Jan 3, 2023

The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal. Genres: Fantasy, Horror

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Big Brother Is Listening.  Why not you?

Reviewed Dec 30, 2022

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

People who live in glass onions shouldn’t throw murder ...

Reviewed Dec 27, 2022

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends. Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

Happy Life Day Everybody! 

Reviewed Dec 25, 2022

On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present. Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

Brave New World (2020)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised… It Will Be Stream...

Reviewed Dec 23, 2022

In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution. Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, TV Series

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Deep Blue See

Reviewed Dec 20, 2022

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Metropolis

We Built This City On Rock And Ro-oooll (too bad it’s a...

Reviewed Dec 16, 2022

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction