Joe Show's Movie Blog

Talking movies all day and every day...or at least, whenever it strikes my fancy.

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Under the Shadow Review - StageBuddy.com

Under the Shadow, Review

My StageBuddy review!

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Eye in the Sky Review - StageBuddy.com

Eye in the Sky, Helen Mirren, Gavin Hood, Alan Rickman, Review

My StageBuddy review!

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The Revenant Review - StageBuddy.com

The Revenant Review, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy

My StageBuddy review!

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Joy Review - StageBuddy.com

Joy Review, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper

My StageBuddy review!

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Review The Hallow - StageBuddy.com

Review The Hallow - StageBuddy.com

My StageBuddy review!

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I Smile Back Review - StageBuddy.com

I Smile Back Review Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles

My StageBuddy review!

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Review: Knock Knock - StageBuddy.com

REVIEW Proving to detractors that he's more than just shock value, Eli Roth's Knock Knock represents a welcome departure from his prior fare.

My StageBuddy review!

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Cooties Review - StageBuddy.com

Cooties Review

My StageBuddy review!

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A Lego Brickumentary Interview - StageBuddy.com

A Lego Brickumentary Interview

My StageBuddy interview with the directors!

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The End of the Tour Review - StageBuddy.com

The End of the Tour Review the film stars Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel

My StageBuddy review!

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10.000 KM Review - StageBuddy.com

Long-distance relationships have come a long way since the days where the closest form of contact was a phone call... 10.000 KM Review

My StageBuddy review! This is one of my favorite films of the year!!!

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The Midnight Swim Review - StageBuddy.com

Life, death and folktales converge in Sarah Adina Smith’s dreamy mystery, The Midnight Swim. The Midnight Swim Review

My StageBuddy.com review!

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Queen of Earth Review - StageBuddy.com

A tense and spellbinding psychological study on the fragility of sanity. Queen of Earth Review

My StageBuddy.com review!

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Review: They Look Like People

The horror sub-genre of extraterrestrial possession, which includes classics The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter’s The Thing, is constantly being returned to because it gets to the heart of a natural fear that we deal with our entire life—trust. As a child, there is no greater nightmare than to discover that your parents have been taken over by monsters and want to hurt you. This continues into our adult lives where our greatest relationships are made or broken by trust. They Look Like People pushes this concept further by asking, what if you weren’t sure if you could trust yourself? 

Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews) is seeing strange things and receiving mysterious phone calls in the dead of night warning him of an impending war between humans and an alien race. As the doomsday approaches, he must decipher the truth from madness so he can protect his friend Christian (Evan Dumouchel) from being taken over. Director Perry Blackshear exercises an incredible amount of restraint in the tense sequences that are sprinkled throughout the film, stretching out the duration of the moments about as far possible. Tight close-ups force the viewer to look the threat in the eye for an excruciatingly long time as the tension is amplified further by the bees buzzing in and out of the unnerving sound design.

This is a dynamite feature debut for Perry Blackshear who not only directed the film, but wrote, shot and edited it himself, too. What really sets his film apart from its genre mainstays is that the psychological horror aspect is matched in focus by the friendship Wyatt shares with Christian. One of the film’s most touching moments involves the two guys goofing around in Christian’s New York City apartment playing sock wars. Blackshear uses the Christian character to tackle additional thematic material such as career expectations and a very cute love thread between Christian and Mara (Margaret Ying Drake). In his portrayal of Christian, Evan Dumouchel captures the clueless nature of the everyman while delivering a steady dose of comic relief in his very likable performance. They Look Like People is certainly a creepy film but with a lot more on its mind. It’s a movie that details the true meaning of strength and courage, having faith in the goodness of others and trusting the power of the human bond.

Joseph Hernandez | Joe Show’s Movie Blog

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Review: The Nightmare

Rodney Ascher’s latest documentary follows the plights of eight different people who suffer from an affliction called sleep paralysis. This usually involves lucid dreaming where the person is unable to move or speak and is most often visited by unknown dark entities. Their experiences are visualized in re-enactments, some more successful than others, but the true disturbing factor comes out of the parallels in their individual experiences. Rodney Ascher stays in-obtrusive, allowing the subjects and their stories to speak for themselves and respectfully avoids any scientific explanations. The material is more terrifying than what is actually shown but that doesn’t mean this film won’t linger in your mind once it’s over. I'd be remiss not to mention that half the theater raised their hands during the Q&A to confirm they have experienced it themselves.

Joseph Hernandez | Joe Show’s Movie Blog

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Insidious Chapter 3 Review - StageBuddy.com

Insidious: Chapter 3 is a film that not only delivers on this experience but takes the terror to a new suffocating level. Insidious Chapter 3 Review

My StageBuddy review.

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We Are Still Here Interview - StageBuddy.com

We Are Still Here Interview with director Ted Geoghegan

My interview with the writer/director for StageBuddy.com