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  • Sinister 2012

    ★★★★½ Added

    A pure cinematic jolt to the senses, "Sinister" is a wake-up call to both writers and directors to all these redundant haunted house/ghost films and provides a really cleverly written script, a surprising genuine performance by Ethan Hawke, and some genuine jolts and scares that really pull you down to its inner core of hopelessness and craziness without surfacing until the final frame. "Sinister" while relying on certain jump scares, they feel more earned than feeling cheap as the tension…

  • Detention 2011

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    On a star rating, this is a zero. I truly hated and despised this film. As unique and quirky it tries to be, it never rises above the level of being bloated, pretentious and most of all; boring. Nothing at all happens. This film doesn't have any consistencies, no sense of a world or any rules-just whatever pops into the writer/director's head, it happens. And that would be fine if it wasn't so meandering and just pointless with the convoluted…

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  • Jaws 1975

    ★★★★★ Added 2

    A pinnacle point in my childhood-Spielberg's "Jaws" shook me to my core and introduced me to the very notion of movies. This epic tale of ferocity and bravery instilled in my mind and has never left(thankfully) and has remained the standing Blockbuster for decades. So masterfully crafted by a young, precocious Spielberg(who's life was literally depended in the success of this film) that he elevates this B-movie material to classic heights and standards that it almost is astonishing to see…

  • Jurassic Park 1993

    ★★★★★ Added 1

    Remarkably enchanting and so enthralling. Something about Spielberg and impacting people's childhoods have to be correlated. Quite possibly the most astonishing achievement in both film and special effects, Spielberg, along with his team really brought dinosaurs to life and made them just as lethal and realistic as we as kids would imagine them to be. With a epic score to emphasize the fantasy of this world, this gem of technical wizardry from the wizard himself; Stan Winston and a cast…