Movie Review: JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM (2018)

25 years ago, I fell in love with a film for the first time, and in turn, fell in love with film as a whole.  Jurassic Park was everything to me.  It gave me a wonderful escape to a land I’d never experienced before, and it has stuck with me for two and a half decades.  And over those years, I’ve seen several sequels come and go, none living up to sheer awe and wonder of the original.  But Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom managed to do the next best thing by evoking the essence of the first film while bringing something wholly new to the franchise.

Movie Review: A MONSTER CALLS (Review #3)

A Monster Calls is the third film by Spanish director J.A. Bayona. The film follows the story of a young boy dealing with his mother being very ill and being bullied at school as he is visited in his dreams by a monster set on teaching him some kind of life lesson. The film stars Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell, and Liam Neeson as the Monster. I was floored by this movie as it was a wonderful combination of stunningly beautiful and emotionally resonant. One of the best films of the year.

Movie Review: A MONSTER CALLS (Review #2)

A Monster Calls follows a young boy named Conor (Lewis MacDougall), whose mother (Felicity Jones) is ill from cancer, and gravely so -- she is terminal. Having difficulty dealing with this horrible situation, Conor is visited by a tree monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) at 12:07. On one occasion the monster comes and tells him he is going to narrate him three stories and once he is done Conor will have to tell a fourth one and said story will have to be 'the truth'.

31 Days of Horror: EL ORFANATO (THE ORPHANAGE) (2007)

Welcome horror fans, to Day 10 of the 31 DAYS OF HORROR! We are back in our lead up to Halloween with a stellar foreign horror film...EL ORFANATO (THE ORPHANAGE). Enjoy!