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‘Overlord’ Film Review!

‘Overlord is the latest endeavor from sophomore feature film director Julius Avery and is produced by professional fanboy JJ Abrams.  Here’s how I imagine their

Film Review: ‘Sequence Break’!

I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say that Graham Skipper watched a lot of horror movies in the 80’s and played “tempest”

Film Review: ‘The Commuter’!

SOMEONE PLEASE STOP TAKING LIAM NEESON’S FAMILY!!! Ok, so maybe ‘The Commuter‘ isn’t so much about having his family ‘Taken’, but they get threatened to get

Film Review: ‘The Disaster Artist’!

By now you must know about the “The Room.”  If by some chance you don’t know what it is, I would highly recommend viewing before

Film Review: ‘The Room’!

There is nothing that can be said about ‘The Room‘ that hasn’t been said already.  There’s a book about it, there’s about to be a

Film Review: ‘Happy Death Day’!

Written By: Fernando Martinez… Ok, let me start off by saying that “Happy Death Day” is not a great movie., although there are a lot

Film Review: The Mummy (2017)!

Fernando M., here…. The Mummy (1999) is by far one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.  Written and directed by Stephen Sommers, it works

Film Review: ‘Power Rangers’!

Fernando M., here…. Yeah, I’m not gonna write this.  I’m off to buy the action figures.  See ya later kids.  OK, I’m back.  America, if

Film Review: ‘The Great Wall’!

Fernando M., here…. This is a bad year for walls. ‘The Great Wall‘ easily wins the “biggest misnomer of the year” award. Should have gone

Film Review: ‘The Bye Bye Man’!

Fernando M., here…. Let me set this stage.  We open on a scene in 1969 involving a guy that has obviously snapped and is muttering,

Film Review: ‘Sunny in the Dark’!

Fernando M., Here… Nowadays we tend to think of independent cinema as anything that plays at “Angelika” theaters that doesn’t involve special effects.  They usually

Film Review: ‘Victor Frankenstein’!

Fernando M., Here… Is there any real need to make another Frankenstein movie?  Probably not.   Is there any real need to add extra cheese

Film Review: ‘Transporter: Refueled’!

Fernando M., Here… It’s probably been thirteen years since I’ve actually seen the original “The Transporter.”  I don’t remember all the details, but I remember

Film Review: ‘Bloodsucking Bastards’!

Fernando M., Here… It’s sophomoric, juvenile, low budget, lacks any name recognition actors, but I dare say I had a good time watching it. Blood

Film Review: ‘Hitman: Agent 47’!

Fernando M., Here… When in the world will someone get one of these right?  I can’t count the number of times I’ve been disappointed by

Film Review: ‘Insidious 3’!!

Fernando M., Here… The “Insidious” franchise is a strange one.  The movies have developed a formula that they have successfully recreated now for a third

Film Review: ‘Hot Pursuit’!

Fernando M., Here… What happened?  I mean, Reese Witherspoon was just nominated for an Oscar, right?  She follows up her acclaimed role in “Wild” with

Film Review: ‘The Water Diviner’!

Fernando M., Here… Director Russell Crowe.  Sounds a bit strange, doesn’t it?  Russell Crowe has starred in a ton of films, and it feels like

Film Review: ‘Ex Machina’!

Fernando M., Here…  It’s very rare that we get to say that a directorial debut is nothing short of a rousing success. Ex Machina is one

Film Review: ‘The Hunting Ground’!

Fernando M., Here… “The Hunting Ground” is a documentary film shedding light on a situation that nobody wants to talk about.  Rape.  Specifically, it explores

Film Review: ‘Chappie’!

Fernando M., Here… OK, so Neill Blomkamp (‘District 9‘) likes video games and old school sci-fi movies.  Just putting it out there. Chappie, the character, not the

Film Review: ‘Seventh Son’!!

Fernando M., Here… Look, I’m not saying that making a good Fantasy movie is easy, but we live in a post-Lord of the Rings world

Film Review: ‘Project Almanac’!!

Fernando M., Here… Found footage films have become a genre of their own.  In recent memory, they have been a favorite conduit for sci fi

Film Review: ‘Pride’!!

Fernando M., Here… Films based on historic events concerning equal rights and marginalized groups rarely, if ever, have giant dance sequences and laugh out loud

Film Review: ‘Annabelle’!!

Fernando M., Here… It’s really hard to make a good horror film these days.  I’m not sure if it’s because the genre has been so

Fernando’s Review of ‘The Equalizer’!!

Fernando M., Here…. Antoine Fuqua is two men.  He is the director of the critically acclaimed “Training Day,” for starters.  He is also evidently also