Revival!

It's been a while, here is the recent movie roundup.

The Reaping

A town beset by the plagues from the book of Exodus? A cool idea, ruined by shoddy writing, bad acting, and major plot holes. I will spare you my rant about how hollywood writer's address crisises of faith and how they need to learn nuance if they want it to be believable.

Believer's

An interesting twist on doomsday cult movies still suffers from problems but is still a decent film in its' own right.

One Missed Call

Creepy until the dead body chases the heroine, then it's pretty silly and derivitive.

Tideland

Acting? Superb. Well-shot? Yes. Well-written? Hell, no! What could have been a moving story ends up just being a seemingly endless parade of disturbing visual after another with no apparent point. Skip this and rent Pan's Labyrinth.