Films are made up of scenes. “Joe” has powerful ones, and then it has ones that wander and get a…
Author: Mark Ziobro
Mark Ziobro
Mark is a lifetime film lover and founder and Chief Editor of The Movie Buff. His favorite genres are horror, drama, and independent. He misses movie rental stores and is always on the lookout for unsung movies to experience.
The sin of “Hellraiser” is that it offers up a sadistic premise that it doesn’t deliver. Decidedly, the film’s opening is…
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At the behest of a friend, who told me convincingly that this film “scared the crap” out of his mother…
When my parents brought home our first VCR as a kid, they rented two movies. The first, Disney’s “The Land…