Forest Hill, Maryland — The stakes turn deadly in the terrifying new thriller The Poker Club, available on DVD this April 21, 2009 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Maryland native Johnathon Schaech (Quarantine, Prom Night) stars in this suspenseful and pulse-pounding thriller, which he co-wrote and co-produced with Richard Chizmar (Masters of Horror, Fear Itself), […]
Just In Time For Halloween: Saw V Delivers A Luke Warm Movie Experience
It’s Halloween time and you all know what that means? Yes, another installment of the Saw franchise hits the big screen. What are we on, number five now? Wow, how time flies and Hollywood exploits the crap out of anything mildly successful. Anyway, as a huge fan of the first Saw movie and a somewhere […]
Love Movies? Love Halloween? Try These Dagger-Recommended Flicks For October
Since October hit, my movie excitement has gone through the roof. This is the month of horror, and for someone like myself, it pleases me to the core. Even though the month is almost over, I thought myself and four other Dagger writers would give you our recommendations for movies to watch in the final […]
Burn After Reading: A Review Of The Latest Coen Brothers Film
After becoming the talk of Hollywood with their film masterpiece No Country For Old Men, Ethan and Joel Coen have become recognized by just about everyone these days. So when their new film, Burn After Reading, came out, everyone wondered if it would become another shining mark on the Coen brothers’ already impressive record, which […]
Baltimore Movie Making 101: 48 Hours of Hangovers, Blood Spray And Things Going Wrong
Trying to get into filmmaking often times means you help out others who have experience. This way you hopefully learn the tricks of the trade and come away with an idea of how to create your own film. With this in mind, I decided to help a team for the Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project. […]
The Dark Knight: Brightened By Ledger’s Painted Freak
Friday morning as 12:01 a.m. struck, theaters all over the United States started the official showings of The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s sequel to Batman Begins. Highly anticipated because of Heath Ledger’s final performance and the hype that has been ramping up for months now, this film is set to break records at the box […]
Why I’m Sick To Death of Sly Stallone
As a writer and a movie-lover, I’ve long admired Sylvester Stallone’s brilliant early effort as the writer, star, and visionary behind the first Rocky movie. Back then, a still-poor Stallone famously held out against studio offers that would have cast a more well-known actor as the lead while lining his pockets with a huge payday. […]
27 Dresses: A Dramedy for both Man and Woman
Each year seems to bring more and more films released into theaters that do nothing short of underwhelm and disappoint. The genre that seems to top this list, besides horror, is the comedy-drama. Or as some in the business call it, dramedy. For this reason, I have made a point to avoid the majority of […]
