Review: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Posted On 21 Oct 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2.5 Stars (Noteworthy), 2011, Action, By Genre, Horror, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller.
Mobster's Rating: Paranormal Activity manages a hat trick that most ongoing franchises can’t; just when it should be running out of steam, it course corrects and delivers an entry that is scarier, funnier and more distinctly cinematic than its predecessors. This isn’t art, but it is damn scary at times. I wasn’t won over ... Read More
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Tuesday Throwback: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Posted On 18 Oct 2011 By Bartleby. Under 1973, 2.5 Stars (Noteworthy), 70's, Action, By Genre, By The Year, Fantasy, Horror, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller, Throwback Tuesday.
Mobster's Rating: Television movies were a far different beast in the 1970s than they are now. In fact, you don’t see the major networks wasting their time with them much anymore. But some 30 years ago, that was quite different. There were larger spaces to fill, not as many shows ... Read More
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Review: The Thing (2011)
Posted On 14 Oct 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2 Stars (Mediocre), 2011, Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Mobsters Rating: The monster at the heart of The Thing is a curious contraption. It has flown to Earth in a massive starship whose interiors look as if they were furnished by the Ikea in Hell. After smashing into an Antarctic ice shelf, the visitor promptly galumphs from its craft and ... Read More
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Review: The Ides of March (2011)
Posted On 07 Oct 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2 Stars (Mediocre), 2011, By Genre, Drama, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller.
Mobster's Rating: George Clooney’s ambitious and interesting directorial career finally bites off more than it can properly chew with his new political potboiler, The Ides of March. Although it’s never short on tension or aesthetic skill, this latest work lacks the confidence and presence of the others; even with a sports ... Read More
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Throwback Tuesday: The Company of Wolves (1984)
Posted On 04 Oct 2011 By Bartleby. Under 1984, 2.5 Stars (Noteworthy), 80's, Fantasy, Horror, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller, Throwback Tuesday.
“Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet.” The Company of Wolves is either a child’s nightmarish fever dream, or a lurid fairy tale about the dark, shiny promise of adulthood. I’ve just finished watching the film for the first ... Read More
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Foreign Matter: Kill List Review (2011)
Posted On 30 Sep 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2011, 3.5 Stars (Exceptional), Action, By Genre, Crime, Drama, Foreign, Horror, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller.
Our reviewer across the pond, Jarv, sent in this review and it sounds like a doozy. It's apparently a psychological horror film in the vein of The Wicker Man, and sounds like a mix of modern indie filmmaking and 70's existential thrillers. I'm personally intrigued by this, and anxious to see it. There's been ... Read More
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Throwback Tuesday: The Burbs (1989)
Posted On 27 Sep 2011 By Bartleby. Under 1989, 3 Stars (Fantastic), Comedy, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller, Throwback Tuesday.
It's been years since I've seen Joe Dante’s The 'Burbs. As a kid I adored it—watching it so many times that the entire thing feels branded onto my cerebral cortex. Just the other day my wife and I were discussing the issue of lunatic neighbors, and the film came up. It ... Read More
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Review: Contagion (2011)
Posted On 09 Sep 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2.5 Stars (Noteworthy), 2011, Action-Adventure, By Genre, By Star Rating, Drama, Reviews, Suspense/Thriller.
Mobsters Rating: The most foreboding image in Steven Soderbergh’s new outbreak thriller Contagion is an uncovered bowl of bar peanuts. I mean that as a compliment. At the heart of this star infested, globally minded, medical thriller, there’s a maniacal—even healthy if you will—sense of paranoia and anxiety surrounding our habits ... Read More
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Review: Super 8 (2011)
Posted On 10 Jun 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2011, 3 Stars (Fantastic), Action, Action-Adventure, By Genre, Family/Kids, Fantasy, Reviews, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
I am a proud child of the 80s; a once flannel-wearing, Goonies-watching, Zebra-gum chewing, Q-bert playing brat who recalls a time when there were new episodes of The Snorks, Small Wonder and Manimal airing on fuzzy network television. I present this context because JJ Abrams Super 8 has been specifically ... Read More
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Movie Review: Source Code (2011)
Posted On 01 Apr 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2011, 3.5 Stars (Exceptional), Action-Adventure, By Genre, Reviews, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Taking pieces of Groundhog Day, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Matrix and mixing them all together, Ducan Jones comes up with the best action movie of the year to date.
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Review: Limitless (2011)
Posted On 18 Mar 2011 By Bartleby. Under 2010, 2010, Action, Action-Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
An enjoyably wild ride, Limitless suffers from a choppy half-baked script but ultimately gets saved by a charismatic and charming Bradley Cooper
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