Tag: Shyamalan
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Review: The Visit
Director M. Night Shyamalan, perhaps best known for The Sixth Sense is going back to his roots in this movie, i.e. do something on the cheap and hope that cheap gets better reviews than he’s gotten recently with his many big budget failures, like After Earth. In the creepy horror movie genre being cheap means…
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Review: Rear Window (1954)
This may be my first review for a movie that predates my birth. Even more surprising, I saw this famous Alfred Hitchcock movie in an actual movie theater, specifically the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Some years ago the American Film Institute, which used to show movies at The Kennedy Center, renovated the…
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Review: Lady in the Water
I am still sorting through my feelings for this movie, and probably will for months to come. Consider this the Version 1.0 of the review of this movie. For the life of me, it is challenging to know whether to praise or pan Lady in the Water. For those of you who have seen M.…
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Review: The Village
One of the most enjoyable and spooky movies I have ever seen was director M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Sixth Sense. It had just the right mixture of creepiness, suspense and terror. Perhaps one of the reasons I enjoy his movies is (aside from being a terrific director) he can cast so well. Haley Joel Osment,…
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