New Sam Huntingon comedy Second Nature, directed and co-written by Michael Cross, will get a wide release this September through Nicholas Gyeney’s Mirror Images LTD. The movie stars Interstellar’s Collette Wolfe and revolves around Amanda (Wolfe) who uses a magic mirror to reverse the gender roles in her small town, she gains the upper hand…
I was so ready for a hug and to see some smiles from my 20 month old son after viewing Kathryn Bigelow’s devastating and purposefully harrowing docudrama Detroit. Working again with screenwriter Mark Boal (they previously created the one-two punch of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, which are two of the best topical…
Being a 90’s kid I grew up watching Power Rangers. I was obsessed with it and even went and had power ranger gloves for Christmas. To my brothers regret as a right hook caught him right across the face about five seconds after I put them on, all caught on a video tape I still…
Russel Brody, a one-time successful playwright, works diligently on a follow-up play that could land him back in the spotlight he so early craves. With a baby on the way, however, and a strained marriage, stress and frustration take center stage. When his wife accidentally stumbles down the stairs and dies from her injuries, Brody’s…
It has been two years since I attended Showmasters and one quick type of Showmasters into Google and my review ‘The Showmasters Shambles‘ isn’t far behind. 2015 was probably the worst con experience of my entire life. I completely avoided the 2016 Showmasters convention because of the experience the year before. I heard major improvements…
The Savages is one of those dark comedies which nails a perfect balance between sad and funny, but make no mistake, at times, this is a painful movie to view, as it examines the loss of a parent’s faculties in an upfront and explicit manner. Why has it taken writer/director Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly…
Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi classic Blade Runner is one of those motion pictures where its legacy and lore nearly outweigh the finished product itself. Notice I said nearly. This is an all-consuming piece of cinematic art, a film that blew my mind open as a kid, and has continued to haunt and fascinate me as…
Written by James Cullen Bressack and Zack Ward this movie instantly reminds of House on Haunted Hill (1959) with a modern twist. The story revolves around Balthazar Kane (Tim Abell) a once famous Horror circus magician who sends a group of social media stars a special invitation. This invitation states that any individual who can…
Atomic Blonde promised one thing. A Sexy Charlize Theron shooting bad guys in the face as a mash up of Jason Bourne and James Bond. Doing all of that whilst getting it on with women instead of a male lover. It’s pretty obvious that this movie is guided towards a largely male audience but…
It’s that time of year again when I get my geek on and head to comic con! What’s even better this time around thou is that it was my birthday weekend. This double whammy made for one hell of a trip to Manchester! I was pumped, running on one hour of sleep, let’s do this!…
Not many films instilled as much wide-eyed wonder in me as a youthful movie-lover as The Flight of the Navigator, which was released in the summer of 1986, and while not attaining the runaway big-screen blockbuster status that it truly deserved, has lived on throughout the years as an all-time cult favorite for many children…
Macon Blair’s directorial debut I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, which he also wrote, is a black comedy with serious balls, and as such, this film won’t be for everyone. I love subversive and unexpected material, and this nasty little Netflix acquisition goes to some truly bizarre, and often times (for me…
The recently released Criterion Collection Blu-ray Special Edition of Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece Blow-Up is a thing of pure beauty. From the gorgeous packaging to the wonderful and thoughtful full-color booklet to the plethora of bonus features, they’ve given one of the best films of all time superb physical media treatment. Blow-Up is a true study…
I don’t really feel that I can add all that much new to the chorus of praise that Christopher Nolan has rightfully received for his tour de force action film Dunkirk. Just go out and see it. You don’t need me, or anyone else, to tell you how superb it is. I thought it was…
This short Chinese love story takes the emotional impact of a feature and crams it into nine minutes of brilliance. 90 coins takes you through emotions of happyness, sadness, joy. A film that revives your own personal memories and experiences all in nine minutes. It’s not just a film, it’s an experience of self…
Richard Sarafian’s 1971 road movie Vanishing Point essentially puts on a 98 minute clinic of “being cool.” The cinematography by the amazing John A. Alonzo (Scarface, Chinatown, Harold and Maude) is out of control awesome, the swift editing by Stefan Arnsen keeps a beyond-fast pace, and the on-location shooting and stunt driving is truly tremendous….
