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Happy Halloween Eve to all you Ghost and Ghouls out there. With Halloween less than twelve hours away, we anxiously wait to put on our costumes, go door to door and get our party on. Until then, its time for another tale to get into the spirit of the season. This is a brand new tale inspired by those delicious King Hawaiian rolls, "Legend of Hallowaiian" In the middle of paradise, three kids Kai (Noah Schnapp), Leilani (Teilor Grubbs) and Eddie (Kiefer O'Reilly) are out surfing the waves one Halloween afternoon when they come across an underwater cave. Hidden inside is an old chest with a wooden figure of a man with a pineapple for a head. At first they don't think much of it and leave the cave without putting it back, but they soon learn from Kai's Grandfather the legend of Pineapplehead and how it nearly destroyed the islands long ago before being imprisoned. Kai doesn't believe in the old island legends and convinces his friends its nothing to worry a

Haunted greetings to all. Its two days before Halloween and the magical and frightening films are at an all time high on television and in theaters. The latest Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis and a terrifying zombie film hitting theaters just after Halloween not to mention two classic films "Hocus Pocus" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" celebrating their 25th anniversaries this year. Also this year, we welcome two films fit for this spooky season starring Jack Black, the first being the sequel to "Goosebumps" and this based of a novel piece "The House with a Clock in Its Walls" Taking place in 1955, Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro) is dealing with the tragic loss of his parents and is on his way to go live with his Uncle Johnathan (Jack Black) who he has never met and only knows that he left home when his mother was young and never came back. Arriving at this impressive yet strange house, there seems to be things going on that Johnathan a

Hello movie fans. My apologies on the lack of post to those who still give my blog a glance. With the Holiday season about to kick off with Halloween and a seasonal job it gets a little hard to sit down and type. Rest assure, I have not given up on giving my two cents on some creepy cinematic pieces for this spooky season. With all the frightening films coming out, some are not appropriate for children, with the exception of a few such as the latest chapter for Goosebumps. In this much anticipated sequel, we are sent to a small town in New York where two teenage boys Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris) are looking to be the next treasure hunters when they start their own junk removal business in the hopes of finding something valuable. While clearing out junk from an old abandoned house, Sonny stumbles on to a hidden room where they find a trunk containing a locked manuscript by R.L.Stine entitled "Haunted Halloween". Much like before, they unlock it and r

Many people believe we are not alone in the universe. Whether its spirits and ghost or intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms from other galaxies. One thing we do know is that the universe is so vast and complex with all forms of energy and biological material that makes up everything from bacteria to human beings that it would be foolish to say that there's no chance of anything existing outside our reality. Yet most of us will never experience such things, but what might one do if they got the chance? This movie gives one boy's answer. Luis Sonntag (Callum Maloney) is a lonely 11-year old boy who seems to be raising himself while his father Armin (Dermont Magennis) while loving is too obsessed with proving the existence of other lifeforms that he has no time for things such as mowing the lawn, making breakfast or even noticing that its Luis's birthday. Things for Luis go from bad to worse when the principal calls in Ms. Diekendaker (Lea Thompson) who seems keen on

Everything is connected to each other and we're all part of a delicate ecosystem. Each species of plant and animal playing their part. Yet as human society grows with its science and technology, sometimes that tips the scales and throws everything out of balance that not only threatens nature around us, but to create something that should never exist. Kim Sweet (Lisa Sheridan) a former pop-star now a struggling single mom of eleven year old son Brody (Jonah Beres) returns to her quiet country town to live with her father. Before they can even settle into the quiet rural life, they notice signs of strange mutations in animals. It starts off with frogs with extra limbs, but then it becomes clear it is not isolated to frogs. As animals like dogs and even people start to give birth to deformed and mutated offspring, Kim realizes that there is a huge epidemic linked to the town's water supply from the river that threatens to spread to the Great Lakes. With little help from the

Fame can be a fleeting thing for many who pursue it. Some actors seem to have no limit while others fall to obscurity. Yet when fame is your entire life, to lose it and everything it comes with can either give you some perspective or it can make you do the unthinkable. Markey Marlowe (Analeigh Tipton) has had her world turned upside down. A star since she was young and coming from a famous lineage from her late grandmother, fame is all she has known until her mother Kara (Lauren Bowles) and her budding sister Jade (Addyson Bell) turn their backs on her resulting in an incident that has Markey wind up under house arrest and a restraining order from her family. Forced to spend the next 30 days in an old duplex with a reclusive landlord Daryl (Tyler Labine) right next door, she finds some comfort in telling Daryl about the darkness of her life and what she would do to those who wronged her if she could. It doesn't take long before she realizes Daryl would be willing to do anyt

While the month of October is usually all about the scary and fun Halloween movies, its good to take a step back and recognize the other genres. Though this movie has something just as scary as monsters, greed. Greed has a way of taking ahold and turning you into something that you don't even recognize, and in the 1980's that's just what happened to a few individuals that found out wealth comes with a price. High school friends Joe Hunt (Ansel Elgort) and Dean Karny (Taron Egerton) cross paths with each other in the early 1980's in L.A. finding their lives have not changed much since their days of high school of being charity kids in a wealthy school. Though despite Joe's lack of wealth, he's gifted with a head for business and comes up with a "get rich quick" idea that Dean talks him into doing with a loan of one of their rich high school friend's money. This desperate act evolves into the B.B.C. as they talk the wealthy into investing inclu

It's time once again for one of Mo VT ie Critic's "Movie Verses". For those who don't know what that is, its when I take two movies with similar themes and have them go head to head for the best rating of my Green Mountain Stars (G.M.Stars) five being the best and one being the worst. So without further to do, the theme to day is as you probably guessed alien movies where other lifeforms have come to our planet and how the humans deal with this. Up first is "UFO", this dramatic suspense film focuses on college student Derek (Alex Sharp) who is gifted with exceptional math skills and his pursuit to use them after a U.F.O sighting at an airport by several people has him fascinated as to the real story no one is telling and to find out if they will return. Becoming obsessed with the data and showing neglect to his friends Natalie (Ella Purnell) and Lee (Benjamin Beatty), Derek becomes convinced that there is a formula that can pinpoint where they will

We've all heard the stories of families moving into a new home. They fix it up in the hopes of building their lives and watching their family grow up there. It's an ideal dream every family wants, then they find that their dream home carries its skeletons when things start to move and terrible nightmares rule their nights. Most of those stories work out in the end, most of them. Katrina Hughes (Kendal Rae) is expecting and she and her husband Detective Eric Hughes (Blake Northfield) are able to get the loan to buy a fixer upper home in the country to make it their dream home for their growing family. Yet just as they've moved their things in, Katrina starts being haunted by frightening images of a nun telling her to give her the baby. Meanwhile, Eric is dealing with his own darkness at work after arresting Charles Winter (Jake Ryan) for murdering his two children and pregnant wife and causing the disappearance of the baby. He claims that it was the shadows that took t

Happy October 1st everybody! We are officially in the month where its okay to pick out costumes, buy scary decorations and plan your scary movie marathon night. To kick off the month, I'm reviewing a frightful delight from the Lifetime channel with famous actor known for her terrifying roles as an evil witch and at one point Morticia Addams, Anjelica Huston Jan Carstairs (Tallulah Evans) is less than thrilled to be moving to the Welsh countryside with her parents Kate and Paul Carstairs (Melanie Walters and Rufus Wright) and little sister Ellie (Dixie Edgerickx, who ironically was born on Halloween) into a strange old house out in the middle of nowhere with the less than warm welcoming owner Mrs. Aylwood (Anjelica Huston). At first things seem strange, but normal until Jan starts to notice Ellie having strange dreams and moments where she talks in her sleep and blacks out finding herself elsewhere with no recollection and that the locals are afraid to travel through the woo