Body Cam (2020): Movie Review

                                                                                                      

Jim's Review

Veteran Renee Lomito (Mary J Blige) discovers something sinister is targeting cops and she is bent on finding out why

6 out of 10 stars

About film

While investigating the murder of a fellow officer, veteran Renee Lomito discovers a mysterious figure in the body cam footage. Haunted by visions of the event, she suspects something supernatural is targeting the cops in her unit. 

Now, in a race against time to find the one person who can stop these killings, Renee uncovers a sinister secret among the police force surrounding the shooting and cover-up of an unarmed youth.

Green Room (2015):Movie Review

                                                     

            Jim Pagiamtzis review
                   Darcy (Patrick Stewart) has lots of trouble on his hands when four visiting band members witness a murder and the cast and mouse games begin. Pat (Anton Yelchin) and 3 band mates try to figure out a way to escape. Twist and turns will have you guessing what would you do!

                     Sadly this is one of the last film Anton Yelchin did before is untimely death in 2016. He appeared in the recent Star Trek films learn more
 
    9 out of 10 stars

               Movie Plot:
          A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white power skinheads who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.



                                              

The Foreigner (2017): Movie Review

                                                                    

          Jim Pagiamtzis Review
               Quan( Jackie Chan) like you never seen him before as a driven father fuel for revenge for the killing of  his daughter by a rogue group of terrorist. He goes after Liam Hennessy (Pierce Brosnan) and so begin a cat and mouse game to find out who did the crime and why.

          There are multiple plot lines that lead the climatic and action packed climatic end that will have you following all the way to the end.

       9 out of 10 stars


          Movie plot:
             Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love -- his teenage daughter -- dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
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The Tournament (2009): Movie Review

                                                        

    Jim Pagiamtzis review
               Amazing cast with lots of running, jumping and explosions!!!

        7 out of 10 stars

        Movie plot:
           Top assassins (Ian Somerhalder, Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames) gather for a competition where the last one alive wins a cash prize.


                                                   

Sabotage (2014): Movie Review

                                                                            

                Jim Pagiamtzis review
           Arnold Schwarzenegger and all star cast are all in to keep some money from a recent job. Things go haywire when some of the team members start to go missed and getting killed. Olivia Williams (Det Caroline Brentwood) has an amazing performance as lead detective set out to find out why this happening

  5 out 10 stars

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              Movie Plot
                            Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.

                                           

Paranoia (2013) : Movie Review

                                                                            

              Jim Pagiamtzis Review
                 The amazing opportunity to watch Garry Oldman (Jock Goddard) and Gary Oldman (Nicolas Wyatt) in the same film is amazing masterpiece, two season veterans in the tech industry are out to beat each other. Enter Liam Hemsworth (Adam Cassidy) who get himself and his friends involved.
            It's a cat and mouse game throughout the film until the climatic ending, where the true meaning of what they were both up to is told

        6 out of 10 stars


                  Movie Plot:
Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a rising star at a global tech company run by Nicolas Wyatt (Gary Oldman). An innocent mistake proves costly to Adam when Wyatt forces him to become a corporate spy to obtain trade secrets from a rival company run by Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford), Wyatt's former partner. At first, Adam finds that the assignment is like a clever game -- but when he wants to get out of the situation, he learns that each tech titan will go to shocking lengths to protect his secrets.

                                      
                       

Happy Death Day (2017): Movie Review

                                                          

                    Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
            A superb movie to watch. Ground Hog Day (1993) Bill Murry played a TV reporter living the day over over, Has become a cult classic. Happy Death Day turns repeating the day on its head with this thriller / comedy as Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) plays her day over and over again. Getting killed every single time until she turns detective to figure out who is doing it to her and why?

 It will keep you guessing all the way until the end.Twist and turns and hilarious moments throughout the film.

    9 of 10 stars
                      Movie Plot:
                  Tree Gelbman is a blissfully self-centered collegian who wakes up on her birthday in the bed of a student named Carter. 

As the morning goes on, Tree gets the eerie feeling that she's experienced the events of this day before. 

When a masked killer suddenly takes her life in a brutal attack, she once again magically wakes up in Carter's dorm room unharmed. 

Now, the frightened young woman must relive the same day over and over until she figures out who murdered her.

                                           

The Snowman (2017): Movie Review

                                                              

        Jim Pagiamtzis review
            It takes some time for the film to get moving and the story to flow. When it does get ready for a intense thrill ride as to who is The Snowman and why is the carnage happening? Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) plays conflicted detective with his own issue and dilemmas  to deal with

    7 out of 10 stars


            About film
For Detective Harry Hole, the death of a young woman during the first snowfall of winter feels like anything but a routine homicide.

 His investigation leads him to "The Snowman Killer," an elusive sociopath who continuously taunts Hole with cat-and-mouse games. 

As the vicious murders continue, Harry teams up with a brilliant recruit to try and lure the madman out of the shadows before he can strike again.

                                                            
                                                     

Get Out (2017) Movie Review

                                                            

           Jim Pagiamtzis review
               "An adventurous weekend journey for a young coupe turns it thought provoking film with spectacular scenes and amazing performances in the spellbinding story that has twist and turns you won't see coming!"

        9 out 10 stars
 
               Movie Plot:
                 Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean.

 At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

                                               

Wind River (2017): Movie Review

                  
                                                                   

         
          Jim Pagiamtzis Review
                     Jeremy Renner (Avengers) and Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Age of Ultron) are reunited for a investigation in a deth of 18 year old woman on Indian Reservation.  The conversation and story are pulsating leading to a climatic ending that will affect many lives.

               7 of 10 stars

              Movie plot:

        Cory Lambert is a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. When the autopsy reveals that she was raped, FBI agent Jane Banner arrives to investigate. Teaming up with Lambert as a guide, the duo soon find that their lives are in danger while trying to solve the mystery of the teen's death.

                                          

Ripley's Game(2002): Movie Review

                                             

                  Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
                    All start cast with John Malkovich (Conair) and Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible 2) play a game of trust and deception. Ultimately headed for deadly climax of dangerous game.


                  Movie Plot:

            Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend.
 A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man.
The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them.
 If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control?
Does it stop at one killing?
What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Luisa prepares for her concert.

                                     

Split (2017) : Movie Review

                                                            

                        Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
                               James McAvoy is amazing performance playing multiple personalities!

                   Rating  8 out of 10


                             Movie plot:
While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being.

 Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch), Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him—as well as everyone around him—as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.





                                                   

Eye in the Sky (2015): Movie Review

                                                                  

                   Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
                    A quick paces movie with lots of twist and turns. All star cast Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul and Allan Rickman face some tough decision in eliminating three important targets.

               rating 8 out 10
           

                       About film
           A lieutenant general (Alan Rickman) and a colonel (Helen Mirren) face political opposition after ordering a drone missile strike to take out a group of suicide bombers in Nairobi, Kenya.  
                                      


                                                 

Equalizer 2 (2018) : Movie Review

                                                
     Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
      Robert McCall ( Denzel Washington) is back for sequel to hit movie. This time he is a Lyft driver listening and taking care of business when needed! 
        Things get personal this time when a dear friend is murdered in Brussel, Belgium investigated a murder.  McCall is on the case and uncovers some disturbing facts very quickly.
          There a few other plot lines that keep the drama flowing but don't really have anything to do with the plot.

       5 of 10 stars



    Sujit K Reddy Review:
        Good: Engaging from start to finish.
       BAD: Too much story not enough action
      UGLY: The use of the word "handicapped"not "disabled/physically challenged" in one dialogue exchange.

  KJ Proulx Review: read more

       About film:
     If you have a problem and there is nowhere else to turn, the mysterious and elusive Robert McCall will deliver the vigilante justice you seek. This time, however, McCall's past cuts especially close to home when thugs kill Susan Plummer -- his best friend and former colleague. Now out for revenge, McCall must take on a crew of highly trained assassins who'll stop at nothing to destroy him.

                                          

A Quiet Place (2018) : Movie Review

                                                                  

Jim Pagiamtzis review

A nail biting thriller that will you have at the edge of you seat in fear. Family is living in fear and surviving in an environment on not make noise with 3 kids! John Kransinski (Director and Father) has an outstanding performance with his real wife (Emily Blunt). The three kids are zoned in and play powerful roles in this epic thrill seeking film. The aliens are scary and well done!

Martin Hutnik review: Great balance of narratives — family and the dynamics there, survival, fear. movie keeps you on your toes!

Sujit K Reddy:
Good: Suspenseful
Bad: Could have started from Day 1
Ugly: The story could have the other people in different places in the area.

KJ Proulx Review: https://horror.media/a-quiet-place-movie-review

Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_2018

Movie plot:Those who have survived live by one rule: never make a sound.

                                                    

Movie Review: Chappaquiddick (2018)

                                                           
    Jim Pagiamtzis review:
        Political thriller of untold true story of accident that occured at Chappaquiddick Island. Sentator Ted Kenndy (Jason Clarke) went on late night car ride with Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).
     What happens next follows twist and turns on the truth and how Ted Kennedy faught to save his political career. Great performances by Ed Helms (Joe Gargan) Jim Gaffigan (Paul Markham) and Bruce Dern (Joe Kennedy).
         Rating 7 out 10


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   Movie Plot

  On July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. The accident results in the death of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old campaign strategist who worked for Kennedy. The ongoing investigation into the mysterious and scandalous events forever alters his political legacy -- and ultimately changes the course of presidential history.