‘The Bay’ swamped by terrible choices ★ 1/2
It was only a matter of time before the found-footage craze drew a bona-fide name-brand Hollywood filmmaker into its vortex. "The Bay" is directed by Oscar-winning Barry Levinson, known for...
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‘The Bay’ swamped by terrible choices ★ 1/2
It was only a matter of time before the found-footage craze drew a bona-fide name-brand Hollywood filmmaker into its vortex. "The Bay" is directed by Oscar-winning Barry Levinson, known for...
‘Paranormal Activity’: 4th stash of footage still has some surprises ★★
Even at their best, the films in the unlikely "Paranormal Activity" franchise are never exactly thrilling, but they have cannily managed to wring more scares out of empty rooms than...
‘Paranormal Activity’: 4th stash of footage still has some surprises ★★
Even at their best, the films in the unlikely "Paranormal Activity" franchise are never exactly thrilling, but they have cannily managed to wring more scares out of empty rooms than...
‘Stars in Shorts’: Casts buoy a collection of 7 films
Truth in advertising is not entirely dead, as "Stars In Shorts" is a collection of seven short films, all with stars in them who need not be acting in short...
Simple premise serves post-apocalyptic story
Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski, "The Day" charts 24 hours in a post-apocalyptic world. The premise is simple: A small band of people, three men, two women, move across a desolate...
Actresses’ talent wasted in creepy, perverted ‘Hick’ ✭ 1/2
Directed by Derick Martini from a screenplay adapted by Andrea Portes from her own novel,"Hick" is part road movie and part coming-of-age story but mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia...
Actresses’ talent wasted in creepy, perverted ‘Hick’ ✭ 1/2
Directed by Derick Martini from a screenplay adapted by Andrea Portes from her own novel,"Hick" is part road movie and part coming-of-age story but mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia...
Lebanese villagers work it out in ‘Where Do We Go Now?’ ✭✭ 1/2
At the outset of the new film "Where Do We Go Now?" the usual constant fighting between Muslim and Christian men in a remote Lebanese village has reached a fragile...
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'Outsourced' ** 1/2 "Outsourced" is a light cross-cultural comedy that takes as its backdrop the story of an American executive sent to India to set up a call center for...