DON’T BREATHE Review — Breathtaking Horror
Staci Layne Wilson’s Don’t Breathe Review will leave you breathless @StaciWilson Don’t breathe… he might hear you. And if he can hear you, he can find you. If he finds you, he will kill you. He is The Blind Man (Stephen Lang), a wounded war vet with scads of cash hidden away in his dilapidated…
THE 9th LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX Review – A Kids Movie for Adults, or an Adults Movie for Kids?
While The 9th Life of Louis Drax reminds critic Staci Layne Wilson of kids movies of the 80’s, it’s rated R. Hmmm… Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth) is eight years old, but no one is sure he’ll make it to see another year after he tumbles off a high cliff on his ninth birthday. Broken-boned and in a…
Guillermo del Toro — At Home with Monsters
Guillermo del Toro has a frightfully fashion forward exhibit at LACMA By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Writer-director Guillermo del Toro is obsessed with ghouls, ghosts, creeps and creatures. But they are nothing if not well-dressed monsters. Just take a look at his cinematic opuses, which include period pieces like Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth and Crimson Peak. Even the vampires…
THE LITTLE PRINCE Review — Out of This World
The Little Prince Review — Out of This World By Staci Layne Wilson The Little Girl (Mackenzie Foy) is all work and no play – that’s because her micromanaging Mom (Rachel McAdams) has got the whole summer vacation wrapped up in study so she can get into the most prestigious academy of higher learning in all the…
THE SECRET LIFE of PETS Review — Purrfect or a Dog?
Know that this THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS review is written by a true animal movie expert. Staci Layne Wilson (@StaciWilson) is the author of the Animal Movies Guide, available on Amazon. Movies about pets having secret lives is not new – it was done to great effect by Disney in the 1960s with That Darn Cat!…
LIGHTS OUT Review — Electric Ghoul Ade
LIGHTS OUT Review by Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Imagine you see something lurking in the dark. You’re uneasy, so you turn the light on and sure enough: there’s nothing there. Just your mind playing tricks on you. Sighing with relief, you turn the light off and – boom! The figure you thought you saw…
THE SHALLOWS Review — Suspense Runs Deep
Staci Layne Wilson’s The Shallows review expounds on the beach-based summer thriller starring the lovely Blake Lively as a surfer at odds with a killer great white, armed with nothing but her wits. Generally, I love shark-attack movies – Jaws is of course my favorite, and so when this flick was touted as “Jaws for a new generation” I…
Mick Rock Doc 'Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra of Rock'
The new documentary film, Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra of Rock, is about legendary music photographer and videographer Mick Rock, best known for his iconic images of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, Blondie, Joan Jett and countless others. Mick Rock shot the covers of dozens of classic album covers (Space Oddity, Transformer, Raw…
THE CONJURING 2 Review: Perfect Summer Scare
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson THE CONJURING 2 Review – Things are going bump in the night again as director James Wan returns to his horror roots after a detour into the world of car crashes and killer abs in Furious 7. In 2013, Wan re-introduced real-life husband-and-wife demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren to the world with…
A BIGGER SPLASH Review — Dive Right In!
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Bowie-esque rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating from a long, hard tour on the volcanic island of Pantelleria in Sicily with her lover Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts), when iconoclast record producer and flamboyant old flame Harry (Ralph Fiennes) unexpectedly arrives with his seductive, illegitimate daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson) in…
