Thriller

Jun 7 2013

The Purge

The blueprints for director James DeMonaco’s new film The Purge can be found between pages 173 and 177 of the hardcover edition of “Brain Droppings” by the late George Carlin; it’s here that he outlines his plan for “Legal Murder Once A Month,” an event where people are allowed to kill one person without consequence. […]
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Nov 30 2012

Sushi Girl

(This review was originally published on November 30, 2012 at Reel Film News) Last year when I interviewed Tony Todd for “Final Destination 5”, he was already in serious promotional mode for a new film called “Sushi Girl”, in which he co-stars with Mark Hamill, James Duval and Andy Mackenzie, and is also billed among […]
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Nov 30 2012

Deadfall

(This review was originally published on November 30, 2012 at Reel Film News) If you were to combine “Reindeer Games” with “The Ref”, you might end up with something like “Deadfall”, a film that circles hungrily around the promise of a moral, as well as a twist, like a vulture waiting for something to die. […]
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