A secretary’s relationship with her new coworker at a correctional facility turns sinister in Eileen. Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie) is a young woman working as a secretary at a correctional facility for teenage boys in 1960s Massachusetts. At home, Eileen has to deal with her alcoholic father Jim (Shea Whigham), the retired police chief, who…
A family is tormented by a closet-hiding monster in The Boogeyman. Sisters Sadie (Sophie Thatcher) and Sawyer Harper (Vivien Lyra Blair) are in grief after the death of their mother in a car accident, a subject that their therapist father Will (Chris Messina) tries to ignore. One day, will is visited by a highly disturbed…
An audio recording of our review of The Boogeyman
Two siblings experience strange occurrences at the farm of their dying father in The Dark & The Wicked. Louise (Marin Ireland) and her brother Michael ((Michael Abbott Jr) put their lives on hold to return the farm of their mother (Julie Oliver-Touchstone) and father (Michael Zagst), the latter of whom is on his deathbed. However,…
Two social outcasts find love with each other in Some Freaks. Matt (Thomas Mann) is an awkward teenager, who repeatedly finds himself bullied over the fact that he wears a patch over his lost eye. One day Matt meets Jill (Lily Mae Harrington), an overweight girl with dyed-blue hair and a lip piercing, who also…
Two siblings deal with their performance artist parents in The Family Fang. Annie and Buster Fang (Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman) are two siblings, who are still trying to cope with their parents Caleb and Camille’s (Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett) infamous status as performance artists. When Caleb and Camille goes missing one night, Buster is worried about…
There might be minor SPOILERS in this review.When it comes to curing psychological ailments, it has almost become the norm to just “fix it with a pill.” People often do not think twice when they take the medication prescribed to them by doctors. Most of all, we often don’t stop to consider that these pharmaceuticals…
This film will probably be the final film in my 2008 catch-up and I was spurred to it after Kate Winslet won Best Actress for it at the Golden Globes. I did not know what to think of the the film at first. I did agree that Winslet’s performance was good, but I didn’t get…
