Netflix just released their new original series from David Fincher and creator Joe Penhall titled Mindhunters. Fincher directed four out of the episodes in what was heavily advertised and promised as a spiritual follow-up to Fincher’s most seminal and finest work, Zodiac. The series looks great, the cinematography is on point, the score is what…
Brawl In Cell Block 99 isn’t quite the film one would think it would be. Yes, it’s a gruesome and unrelenting film from S. Craig Zahler whose first film BONE TOMAHAWK is an unnerving horror western, but for as raw and unprocessed as BRAWL can be, this film has something to say. It is very…
The Lovers is basically a perfect movie, at least from where I sit on the couch and watch movies. Everything clicked into high-gear with this one, from the skillful leading performances by Debra Winger and Tracy Letts, to the observant writing and patient direction from Azazel Jacobs, who after some sterling work on HBO’s underrated…
Our Souls at Night is a thoroughly lovely film that feels as if it could have been made 20 years ago at the studio level, but now because we live in a movie-world where the studios don’t care about this sort of low-key, adult-minded material, Netflix is here to save the day and continue to…
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…
