Haunters: The Art of the Scare from Jon Schnitzer dwells into the art of the macabre and the love of a good haunted attraction. An 88-minute documentary that is highly entertaining and gives you a glimpse into the world of haunts and the passion and dedication of the people behind them. This comprehensive documentary is…
With Gerald’s Game, Netflix is riding the current resurgence of Stephen King properties. While THE DARK TOWER has quickly been forgotten and IT has been taking the box office by storm, there is an awakened interest in King’s works. The source of the same name is a novel from 1992, and one that isn’t as…
If a seesaw was finely balanced with ‘morals’ on one side and ‘fame’ on the other then ‘Reality TV’ would be the huge ten-tonne elephant that would crush the morals side with brute force sending fame skyrocketing into the atmosphere. This Is Your Death brings an eye-opening social commentary to the table that is dark,…
Blade Runner 2049 is that film that comes once in a lifetime. It will lay the fertile groundwork for a bounty of young aspiring filmmakers and artists, and those that know not of what they will eventually create. The film forgoes the relentless tinkering of Ridley Scott from the original film and constructs itself in…
A book like no other. An experience you’ll never forget. The Alien movie franchise has been shocking audiences for more than 35 years, and the series is set to continue into the future, which is where this book comes from. This special interactive edition has been beamed back to us from the future reality witnessed…
Matthew Vaughn returns to his new found, and maybe accidental franchise with KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. This time around he assembles the Statesmen, made up of Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, Halle Berry, and Jeff Bridges who team up with returning cast members Colin Firth, Mark Strong, and Taron Egerton against the wickedly fun Julianne Moore…
Stronger is emotionally potent true-life cinema, a cautiously inspiring film about grotesque physical and mental tragedy, and a film that resists easy sentimentality which would have cheapened the overall package. Directed with a strong sense of focus by the eclectic filmmaker David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Snow Angels, Joe), the film was written by first-time…
The latest prequel that no-one really wanted in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Leatherface. We are catapulted back to the early days of the Sawyer family where Verna Sawyer (Lili Taylor) is playing happy families with her weird little children. After murdering a Texas Rangers daughter the boys are committed to a mental home and…
This movie is cold, hard, steely, lethal, terse, and most especially – REAL. This may well be the last, truly great car-chase movie, if for no other reason than the fact that almost every single bit of action was done on location, by real stunt men and women driving actual cars on actual city-streets and…
Andrew Niccol is a very smart guy. He wrote The Truman Show, the first draft of The Terminal for The Beard, and wrote and directed the supreme sci-fi noir Gattaca, which has to be one of the most prescient pieces of entertainment of the last 20 years. In 2005, he released Lord of War, which…
An eerily familiar premise to this Groundhog Day inspired story in the Netflix comedy Naked. Rob (Marlon Wayans) is about to get married yet he has to keep reliving the same day over and over again until he gets it right. Each and every time his day resets he wakes up naked in a lift….
Fear, Inc is a blend of comedy and horror that revolves around the character of Joe Foster (Lucas Neff) a man obsessed with horror movies and always wants to be scared. Fed up of haunted houses and spooky locations Joe is met by a mystery man who hands him a card for a company called…
For the Tibetan Mastiffs living on Snow Mountain, a dog’s life has a simple riff; Guard a peaceful village of wool-making sheep from the thuggish wolf Linnux (Lewis Black; Inside Out, The Aristocrats) and his rabid pack. To avoid distractions, Mastiff leader Khampa (J.K Simmons; Whiplash, Spider-Man) forbids all music from the mountain. But when…
Stephen King is one of modern American literature’s most adept writers who gets prolific and at times rather mediocre adaptations of his most seminal works. More times than not, King’s works are best adapted to the long form of television. Think Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot, The Stand, and the original miniseries event of IT directed…
It’s true that Francis Ford Coppola had a rough time after the first two Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, but that’s not to say that the films that would follow would all be without merit or importance. 1988’s deeply underrated Tucker: The Man and His Dream deserved to do better than it did at the…
Tom Cruise joins forces with director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) for their second collaboration in American Made. Cruise plays Barry Seal, paycheque former TWA pilot who is recruited by the CIA for reconnaissance missions over Central America. Fed up with the pay cheque and not by choice, Seal starts to sideline in smuggling drugs…
