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Saw II – Film Review

Officer Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) realizes that Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is back to playing his evil tricks of locking down people and gruesomely torturing them. Eric has to find a way to set his son and others free from Jigsaw’s dungeon. From the opening scene of Saw II, it was quite obvious that the director of…

  • 2025

Saw – Film Review

Two men, Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) awaken to find themselves on the opposite sides of a dead body, each with specific instructions to kill the other or face consequences. These two are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. Saw is one of those franchises where you either love it or…

  • 2025

Project Power – Film Review

When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation. Just the other day, I was sitting down on my couch watching television late at night…

  • 2025

Sputnik – Film Review

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist named Konstantin (Pyotr Fyodorov) is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with…

  • 2025

Inception – Film Review

Dominick “Dom” Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. Saito (Ken Watanabe) offers to wipe clean Cobb’s criminal history as payment for performing an inception on his sick competitor’s son. It may be extremely difficult to believe, but just this past month, Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending and awe-inspiring Inception turned ten years old….

  • 2025

Yi Yi – Film Review

Set in Taiwan, Yi Yi follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the three main family members: father N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), teenage daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), and young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang). N.J., disgruntled with his current job, attempts to court the favor of a prominent video game company while…

  • 2025