A “lost” film by George A. Romero is restored and finally released 46 years after its completion with The Amusement Park. An optimistic elderly man (Lincoln Maazel) spends a day at an amusement park. However, this fairground turns out to be a living metaphor for the way society ignores and mistreats the older population. The man …
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A vacationing family finds themselves terrorized by their doppelgangers in Us. Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) is a woman still affected by traumatic experience she went through as a child, where she came to face to face with someone who looked just like her. With her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and kids Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) …
The fantasy/thriller Escape from Tomorrow, is the infamous film, which gained some notoriety when it premiered at Sundance, due to the fact that it was primarily shot guerrilla-style at Walt Disney World, without the consent of Disney. The plot of the film follows Jim (Roy Abramsohn), who is on vacation at Walt Disney World with …
From the very start Zombieland had a very tongue-in-cheek feel to it. Unlike the last major zombie-based comedy Shaun of the Dead, this film was definitely not a serious zombie film with serious situations. The film is fully of “zombie survival rules” written by Jesse Eisenberg’s character that pop up on screen randomly and help …
I have to admit that Adventureland was not the type of film that I was expecting, since I found that it was more character-driven than comedy driven. However, I opened up to the film and found it a decent coming of age story. There are still fun bits within the film, usually courtesy of Bill …