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Splinter (2008) 62%

Wise Film Choices Splinter (2008) Wise Rating  62%Review Date: 2016 The dregs of streaming subscription video these days. It’s getting harder than ever to find a decent movie on streaming services, especially now that Amazon Video and Netflix are focusing more on...

The Conjuring 2 (2016) 65%

Wise Film Choices The Conjuring 2 (2016) Wise Rating  60% Review Date: 2017  Funny thing. The day after I saw this movie, my wife and I were doing some chores and she turned on the TV right in the middle of the 1961 film “Judgment at Nuremberg,” a movie I had seen a...

Extraordinary Tales (2013) 65%

Wise Film Choices Extraordinary Tales (2013) Wise Rating 65%Review Date: 2016 An interesting experiment in animation. This movie presents six computer-animated shorts that each deliver a classic tale by Edgar Allen Poe in a different style, tied together by a wrapper...

Targets (1968) 95%

Wise Film Choices Targets (1968) Wise Rating  95%Review Date: 2016 A powerful movie about the horror of our times, people picking up a weapon and just plowing down human beings as if they were grain on a field. This movie was made in the 1960s, but it feels like it...

Poltergeist (1982) 90%

Wise Film Choices Poltergeist (1982) Wise Rating  90%Review Date: 2016 A horror classic and probably the best haunted house movie after “The Haunting” (1960), “Poltergeist” is a hair-raising roller-coaster of a ride. A suburban couple struggles to find their youngest...