Tag: Carla Gugino
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The Girls on the Bus review, women power takes a ride
The Girls on the Bus takes four different women journalists and puts them on a bus following after a candidate for President. The political aspect of the story forms the background for the central relationship between the women.
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Lisa Frankenstein, a bonkers horror comedy
Lisa Frankenstein tells the story of Lisa (Kathryn Newton), a teen girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse from a neglected graveyard. The name on the grave is Frankenstein. The Creature (Cole Sprouse) from the grave shows up at her door covered in mud. She cleans him up and discovers he’s missing a…
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The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe is eternal
The Fall of the House of Usher from writer and director Mike Flanagan is another horror classic from this prolific creator of horror. This series is based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s short story titles are used as episode titles, with events in the episodes harking back to their macabre and gory…
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Jett, with Carla Gugino, brings action and excitement
Jett is an action thriller starring Carla Gugino as a master thief. After a stint in prison, she finds herself in a dangerous situation. The series was made for Cinemax but is now available on HBO Max. Season 1 ended just before the pandemic hit, and the series has not been renewed for a second…
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Review: Gunpowder Milkshake
Gunpowder Milkshake is like a hundred other films you’ve seen where dozens of men get killed in dozens of creative ways by only a few heroic characters. This film fits that genre. With one exception. The heroic characters are women. It’s streaming on Netflix.
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Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
The Haunting of Bly Manor can be considered horror – a ghost story. More accurately it should be called stories about love, life, death, guilt, sacrifice, and chicanery. It’s streaming on Netflix.
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Review: The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House will be discussed and analyzed for years to come. It’s that kind of work of art. Watching it is like peeling an onion – you think you’ve found the meat, but there’s always one more layer. You dig deeper and deeper in tighter and tighter circles until the whole opens…
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Watch This: Trailer for San Andreas
I don’t think I’ve ever paid money to see a movie starring Dwayne Johnson. That may change. The upcoming disaster movie San Andreas stars Dwayne Johnson as a father and Alexandra Daddario as his daughter. It also features Archie Panjabi, Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti, Ione Gruffudd and Kylie Minogue. The film description: “In the aftermath…