May

Pros: Bettis, Character of May
Cons: Gory ending

Most people, at some point in their lives, feel the need to begin expressing their individuality. Their uniqueness. That which sets them apart from the crowd. For some people, this happens in childhood, for others, not until much later. But for all th ...

Pros: Angela Bettis
Cons: nada zip zilch

Want a humorous movie that will have you thinking for days and scare you later on a deep level? Go pick up 2002's May. You'll never look at that weird little chick at the counter of your local whatever the same again. May is a gal who was ...

Pros: Angela Bettis, the soundtrack, the Grimm Fairytale-like atmosphere...
Cons: Few...

Recently I have heard May described anywhere from a modern day Frankenstein to a lesbian psycho horror film. Sure, for fans of horror, either of these titles are likely to catch your attention but neither does the film justice in any way. The pr ...

Pros: Touching and disturbing story, great cast.
Cons: Takes awhile to get going.

Making a film with a main character that is crazy has to be one of the most difficult undertakings for any director in Hollywood. Swing too far to one side and the film becomes a parody of what insanity and mental illness really are, and an audience can ...

Pros: Interesting premise, Angela Bettis
Cons: Too slow to build, hollow characters, questions left unanswered

I’m not shy when it comes to renting horror films. In fact, I’ve been doing so for most of my life ...

Pros: Excellent script and great performances
Cons: Poor FX

Now don’t get me wrong, sometimes even my best friends can get on my nerves. Sure, they’re decent people, but sometimes it’d be nice if I could just get rid of all their bad points (including each and every one of their suffocatingly ...

Pros: unique, off-beat, and affecting
Cons: teenage audiences that laugh at the wrong times.

Let me preface this by saying that many of you will not be allowed the chance to see this wonderful film for quite some time - and even then, most likely on DVD. I happen to live in one of three 'test markets' that this film has been released to. If it...

Pros: A Weird, Sprawling Masterpiece from Lucky McKee featuring Angela Bettis' Worldly Performance.
Cons: None though Some Will Find It Disturbing.

With recent films like “Ginger Snaps” and “Donnie Darko”, a new emergence of cult films have been circulating through word-of-mouth in the rental stores and indie film circuits. “Ginger Snaps” was a fresh new take on the werewolf genre while “Donnie ...

Pros: The message is pretty strong, Angela Bettis plays a great May
Cons: May be to gruesome, weird for some.

I was picking through some DVDs (buy 2 get 1!!) at the new Movie Gallery in town, and saw an interesting DVD cover; May was what it said, and the strange looking girl's look lured me in... I had to buy it, so I chose two other so-so DVDs and took ...

Pros: Impressive direction and acting, intriguing story, profoundly weird.
Cons: So weird, it will definitely turn off some.

There are a wide array of words in the English language that evoke a diverse collection of images in ...

Pros: Jeremy Sisto
Cons: Oh, way too many...

First of all, the wrong picture is listed beside this movie's title up above. The movie is called ...

Pros: atmosphere, quirk, payoff---and Bettis is superb.
Cons: nay.

Some four years ago, I wrote a treatise on Lucky McKee's debut feature May---a film that made minor waves when it was unceremoniously dumped damn-near direct-to-dvd in 2003---that reflected my ambivalence to the picture. The review came and ...

Pros: smart directing, good acting, avoids clichés, great payoff, awesome audience reaction
Cons: nada

When you have a lazy eye growing up as a child that can only be treated with an enormous eye patch , you can expect to have few friends. When your mother gives you a doll she crafted herself that looks like Marilyn Manson--without eyes--and tells you, "T ...

Pros: Angela Bettis is a radiant presence, and Lucky McKee has a knack for style.
Cons: The shocks and developments are forced, and have hastily gory pay-offs.

MAY is a 2 Loop Films/Lions Gate Entertainment presentation, rated R for strong violence/gore ...

Pros: Angela Bettis is perfect; Both funny and scary. Emotional.
Cons: A few plot holes here and there.

The theme of the outcast has seen its face in countless films. Girls or boys abused during their childhood and still dismissed as they age have forever been characters with the letters s-y-m-p-a-t-h-y tattooed on their foreheads. Often we viewers feel ...