NewsFilms
Poker Night (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
A rookie police detective has been kidnapped and is being imprisoned by a masked serial killer. He thinks about the lessons he learned…
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December 2014
NewsHorror
The Babadook (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
A mother is driven to the edge of insanity by her seven year-old who insists that the monster in his storybook is really…
NewsHorror
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014) a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
Iranian-American Ana Lily Amirpour wrote and directed ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’, setting the film in the quiet town in Iran…
November 2014
NewsFilms
The Immortalists (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
‘The Immortalists’ is a portrait of two advanced biologists working with promising results on the problems of reversing aging. Your mileage may vary but…
NewsFilms
Antarctica: A Year On Ice (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) (2014).
This is a film about human survival in an alien world, but it is not Science Fiction. It is a documentary about the…
NewsHorror
Housebound (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
A 20-ish delinquent is sentenced by the court to eight months’ house arrest in the home she grew up in and finally escaped.…
ReviewScifi
Interstellar (2014): a film review by Mark R. Leeper (film review).
With the depth and complexity of a Science Fiction novel, Christopher Nolan brings ‘Interstellar’ to the screen, based on an original screenplay he…
October 2014
NewsHorror
Wake Wood (2009) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
This is a reworking of W. W. Jacobs’s story ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ crossed with a bit of ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’. A young couple…
September 2014
NewsFilms
Drive Hard (2014) (film review: Mark’s take).
A former car racer, now a driving instructor, finds himself an involuntary getaway driver when a phony student robs a bank. You have…
NewsFilms
Field Of Lost Shoes (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) (2014).
‘Field Of Lost Shoes’ recounts the story of the 1864 Civil War battle of New Market. In Virginia, this battle is remembered primarily…
ReviewHorror
The Scribbler (2014) (film review) (Mark’s take).
A woman with multiple personality disorder is sent to a half-way house to submit to a cure that will ‘burn away’ her unwanted…
August 2014
ReviewHorror
Septic Man (2013) (film review).
A sewage worker will get a large reward if he goes into the sewer to fix a bad water contamination problem. But he…