Haunted Mansion

Haunted Mansion

A grieving tour guide helps a single mother rid herself of the ghosts haunting her new home in Haunted Mansion. Ben Matthias (LaKeith Stanfield) is a former astrophysicist, who has been giving ghost tours in New Orleans since the tragic death of his wife. Ben is recruited by Father Kent (Owen Wilson) to visit the…

Clerks III

Clerks III

The directionless convenience store workers decide to make a movie about their lives in Clerks III. Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) are still working in the Quick Stop Convenience Store as they approach their 50s. However, Randal is forced to reflect on his life when he has a near-fatal heart attack….

The LEGO Batman Movie

The LEGO Batman Movie

The LEGO Dark Knight sets out to protect Gotham City from The Joker in The LEGO Batman Movie. After foiling the latest plan by The Joker (Zach Galifianakis), Batman (Will Arnett) is shocked to discover that new commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson) wants to de-emphasize Batman’s vigilantism. In addition, Batman is shocked to discover that he…

Top Five

Top Five

Chris Rock writes, directs, and stars in this dramedy about a comedian, who wants to be taken more seriously.  Andre Allen (Rock) is considered the funniest man in American, whose claim to fame was a trilogy of Hammy the Bear buddy cop films, in which Allen performed in a bear costume.  No longer wanting to…

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Nine years after the original, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller return for more tales from Sin City.  In the titular story A Dame to Kill For, photographer Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) is approached for a favour by his highly seductive ex-lover Ava Lord (Eva Green).  However, Dwight soon gets more than he bargained for and…

Trance

Trance

After playing the awards game with the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and Oscar-nominated 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle returns to dishing out his unique take on genre films.  In the case of Trance, what starts off as a fairly ordinary heist film, turns into psychological thriller in which the main protagonist begins to doubt the reality…

Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye

I find it a bit ironic that it a negative review of Eagle Eye at FirstShowing.net that resulted in me to bite the bullet of see the film, after going back and forth about it all day, and I ended up liking it. The key to me decided to see the film was the desire…

Grindhouse

Grindhouse

This film can’t be really described in words, you really must experience it yourself. That said, it was the most fun I can at the movies this year. Of the two features, I would say I enjoyed Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror better. It just seemed more campy and fun. However, as a whole package, I…