After Halloween H20, it appeared that Michael Myers was finally dead, but the producers of the series, buoyed by that film’s success, decided to continue the saga with a seventh sequel. It turns out that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) […]
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Reviews by Mike Marcangelo, guest contributor
The Descendants (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
A wealthy Hawaiian lawyer, Matt King (George Clooney), is about to sell his family’s huge tract of untouched land when his wife suffers a marine accident and ends up in a coma. While he struggles to manage his daughters (Shailene […]
Continue reading »The Lookout (2007) ✰ ✰ ½
A high school student driving at night (Joseph Gordon Levitt) gets into a serious accident that kills two of his friends, maims his girlfriend, and leaves him with a serious traumatic brain injury. A few years later, we find that […]
Continue reading »Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) ✰ ✰ ½
Michael Myers arrives years after his first rampage at the house of the nurse (Nancy Stephens) who helped Dr. Loomis transport him, to find out more about his sister’s disappearance. After dispatching some obstacles, including a young Joseph Gordon Levitt, […]
Continue reading »Hugo (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
In 1920s Paris, Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in the train station and maintains the clocks in an effort to avoid the orphanage. In his spare time he works on an automaton that his father left him in the hopes that […]
Continue reading »Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) ✰
Jamie Strode, Michael Myers’ niece from the fourth and fifth entries in the series, has a baby at the beginning of the film. She then escapes a hospital, gets chased by her old nemesis Michael Myers, and is eventually murdered. […]
Continue reading »Mysterious Skin (2004) ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Two young men, Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) and Brain Lackey (Brady Corbett), live in small town America and are both struggling to grow into adults. McCormick makes his living as a prostitute and sleeps with as many men as […]
Continue reading »Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) ✰ ✰
After the horrifying events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Myers returns to life after sleeping in a hermit’s hut for a year and begins the slaughter anew. His niece (Danielle Harris) is able to sense his presence […]
Continue reading »The Lost Weekend (1945) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Billy Wilder’s first Academy Award wins came for directing and writing (with Charles Brackett) The Lost Weekend. The film concerns Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a writer living in New York and suffering from alcoholism. His brother (Phillip Terry) plans to […]
Continue reading »Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) ✰ ✰
At the outset of this installment (really the third film in the Michael Myers saga) we are told that the Shape has survived the fire at the end of Halloween II and has been in a high security psychiatric hospital […]
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