Category Archives: The Grey Area

It didn’t ‘Wow’ me, but with a couple of decent moments and a fresh perspective there might be something there for you.

In the Mouth of Madness (Review)

Posted on November 21, 2016 by OGR

When Sutter Kane (Jurgen Prochnow), the iconic horror writer (think of Stephen King in the 80s and 90s when people gave a shit about writers in genres aside from ‘young adult’) vanishes into thin air on the eve of the … Continue reading →

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Midnight Sting AKA Diggstown (Review)

Posted on November 12, 2016 by OGR

A fresh out of jail con man Gabriel Cain (James Woods) and local Diggstown business man and scumbag John Gillon (Bruce Dern) both agree to stitch the other over. The contest on paper is for Cain’s man Honey Roy Palmer … Continue reading →

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Training Day (Review)

Posted on November 8, 2016 by OGR

There is a muddled justification for all that takes place on this so called ‘Training Day’, but I cannot fathom how so many egregious plot holes and inconsistencies could be glossed over at award time upon this film’s release. As … Continue reading →

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Haunted (Review)

Posted on November 7, 2016 by OGR

After a tragedy in his youth costs him a sibling, David becomes a scholar specialising in disproving the supernatural, something you wouldn’t have wagered would be especially necessary or profitable in early 1900s England… When called to a large mansion … Continue reading →

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Dirty Dancing: An OGR Protest Review

Posted on November 5, 2016 by OGR

It was the 80s masquerading as the 60s. The air is fresh. The sun is shining. The lawns are manicured. Cars are well maintain. Jars of gel keep every hair locked in place. ensible cashmere sweaters cannot conceal perky young … Continue reading →

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The Day After Tomorrow (Review)

Posted on November 1, 2016 by OGR

The Day After Tomorrow will not be spent worrying about storyline or nuanced characters. It will not be a day of reflection of plausibility or concern about logic. No. Like the inventor who builds an expensive contraption designed to perform … Continue reading →

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Rounders (Review)

Posted on October 25, 2016 by OGR

In the poker world Mike (Matt Damon) is a ‘grinder’, a skilled poker player who plays the game by the book without resorting to cheating. He reads his opponents, works the odds and tries to manipulate the ‘pot’ (potential winnings) … Continue reading →

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The Magnificent Seven 2016 (Review)

Posted on October 21, 2016 by OGR

It is 1879. The town of Rose Creek is on its knees. Already in the midst of the hardest of times, now it is being plundered and ravaged by extremely violent opportunists who will stop at nothing to profit from … Continue reading →

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SkipTrace (Review)

Posted on October 14, 2016 by OGR

In trying to recapture the homogenised buddy flick magic of the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon films, at least Skiptrace… serves to remind us how good those films were by comparison. Bennie (Jackie Chan) is a Hong Kong cop chasing … Continue reading →

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The Veil (Review)

Posted on October 13, 2016 by OGR

It has been a long time since charismatic lunatic Jim Jacobs (Thomas Jane) convinced his almost 50 acolytes to mass suicide. A quarter century in fact. Long enough for the Sarah the lone survivor to become an adult, an adult … Continue reading →

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