by Alica McKenna Johnson | Aug 3, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
The Fog is a Bollywood horror movie, now I LOVE Bollywood and horror movie. I’m even fine with bad horror movies, if they are fun and campy enough to make them good, in their own unique Attack of the Killer Tomatoes way. Unfortunately The Fog doesn’t do this. There...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jun 29, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
Several years ago I was caring for five teenage girls who kept squealing about how Twilight is the best vampire movie ever made. Once I was done crying my hubby and I decided to review as many vampire movies as we possibly could and put them on the web because we...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jun 8, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
I love a good ghost story, and I love Daniel Radcliff. I was really excited when I saw the commercials for The Woman in Black. After a while I was worried that the best and scariest scenes were being shown in the commercials, however this was not true. This was a...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jan 27, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
You know those movies where the good guy arrests the bad guy instead of killing him or her? Or the one where the bad guys dies and it’s over so quickly that you feel cheated and you’re yelling at the screen “He needed to suffer, suffer and then die.” I hope that’s not...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Dec 9, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
Attack the Block This film is what I mean when I talk about adding diversity without making it the focal point in your work. Attack the Block takes place in a London slum run by a drug gang. The main characters are black teenagers whose best option is getting in good...