By Brian Robert Oliver It’s officially Halloween season and that means it’s time to sit down, kill the lights, and scare the crap out of yourself. You want to watch a scary movie. No, you want to watch the scariest movie of all time. Well, though it’s debatable, many people...
By: Brian Robert Oliver First time director Bishal Dutta's It Lives Inside takes a groundbreaking premise but fails to break any ground. Sam, or Samidha, is a second generation Hindi-American teenager doing everything she can to assimilate into American culture. She shaves her arms and wears heaps of makeup to...
Quick, think of the most shocking scenes in cinema history. You might think of the Chestburster scene in Alien, or the shower scene in Psycho. Maybe you thought about the Crucifix Scene in The Exorcist. All iconic scenes and thoroughly shocking. The problem is, they’re really old. So, with that,...
The Corridor(Hallway/Hammer) Scene: Oldboy by Brian Robert Oliver Oldboy is over the top, funny, melodramatic, aggressively violent, and its ending is so complicated that it needed to be carefully explained for over five minutes including flashbacks to earlier parts in the film. It’s like watching the ending of The Usual...
The Best Horror Movie Aliens? The Thing and Alien By: Brian Robert Oliver The horror movie aliens sub-genre finally found its king in the late 70’s with Ridley Scott’s Alien(1979). John Carpenter’s The Thing(1982) arrived three years later and took its place right beside Alien, setting the bar so high...
Se7en: Why John Doe Wins By Brian Robert Oliver John Doe is calm and resolute. “Become vengeance, David”. Somerset, the angel on Mills’ shoulder counters “David, if you kill him, he wins”. In the shear chaos of his psyche comes the briefest moment of tranquility. Tracy’s angelic face flashes into...
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