Suddenly, everyone on the planet begins to have a meltdown of their collective senses. Everything that we take for granted, every single day, gets thrown into chaos; unexpected fits of rage, compulsive eating, spontaneous deafness, loss of taste, and sudden blindness. Directed with extreme care and control by the eclectic filmmaker David Mackenzie (Starred Up,…
In a world where fairy tale monsters and humans are forced to co-exist is the realm where Abnormal Attraction takes place. The story focuses around an AA group (Abnormal Attraction) where a group of humans admit to having unhealthy attractions to their fairy tale counterparts. What follows is a wacky series of events where we…
Your dreams of being a film director can now become a reality with the brand new LEGO Movie 2 Movie Maker set. Simply attach a phone camera to the custom-built lego camera stand, build your set and props and record your very own Lego movie with the movie maker app. The set comes with 3…
Absolutely chilling – I’ve seen three episodes of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace and I can’t wait to see the next six. Slickly put together by executive producer Ryan Murphy (who directed the very stylish pilot), I can’t imagine it was mentally healthy for Golden Globe winner Darren Criss (terrifying in a…
Absolutely wild stuff. I’m no major mark for horror movies, and I’m not sure I fully “got” each plot development as it naturally unfolded, but Luca Guadagnino’s ultra-stylish re-imagining of Dario Argento’s iconic horror film Suspiria is a bloody blast of surreal and creepy imagery. It also serves as a fully-loaded thematic exploration of motherhood,…
I’ve become something of a regular customer with Mathew Cullen’s vibrant and ambitious director’s cut film version of the celebrated British cult novel London Fields. Over multiple viewings, I’ve been able to pull something new and interesting from the experience, especially on a visual level; London Fields is jam-packed with verbal and pictorial information…
Glenn Close is phenomenal as a woman who has spent 40 years living in the shadows of her mega-successful husband (Jonathan Pryce, terrific) whose prolific literary career has just netted him a Nobel Prize for literature. Off to Sweden they go to collect his trophy, with years of hostility and resentment boiling to the surface,…
Nineteen years later, filmmaker M Night Shyamalan has finally closed his Unbreakable trilogy. Sam Jackson and Bruce Willis do not skip a beat, re-entering their seminal early 00s characters while James McAvoy expands upon his already career-high performance as The Horde. Shyamalan’s final entry to the journey of David Dunn, Elijah Price, and Kevin Wendell…
A bit too long-winded but still quite entertaining and definitely constructed with considerable narrative skill and cinematic style, Bad Times at the El Royale is a stylish neo-noir mystery that benefits from a great soundtrack, terrific production design (Marin Whist), and slick cinematography (Seamus McGarvey), with strong performances from a cool ensemble. The less you…
Horror fans get excited as Vice Press and Grey Matter are set to release limited edition posters of John Carpenters work in classic cinema quad sizing today! The Fog, They Live, Escape from New York and Price of Darkness will all be released in quad-sized glory for four of John’s most iconic titles. All four…
Karyn Kusama’s hardcore police drama Destroyer, from a jumbled yet effective script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, allowed Nicole Kidman to get down and dirty as she’s never been on-screen, with the veteran actress dropping a studied performance that fits right in line with the demands of the cynical, modern day, cop movie formula,…
With prequels, sequels and reboots aplenty, it can be pretty tough to keep up with who’s who and what’s what in modern film franchises. In the case of the Ocean’s series of glitzy casino heist films, things are made more difficult still by less than obvious numbering. Rather than being Ocean’s One, Ocean’s Two and…
Vice, the spectacular new film from writer/director Adam McKay, is such a sucker-punch that you can feel the sly presence of everyone involved who collaborated on this motion picture, in every frame. It’s big, it’s sprawling, it’s wickedly clever, and it’s extremely funny. But, what’s most disturbing is that at no point should you ever…
James Wan’s Aquaman is the precise injection that Warner Brothers needed after their inconsistent handling of the DCEU; it is an incredibly fun adventure film stocked full of fantastical world building, an interwoven storyline, and a great ensemble that delivers with colorful performances. Aquaman is everything a comic book movie should be and is one…
Sylvester Stallone has lived a dual life in 2018. He gave us Creed II while also completing filming on Rambo: The Last Blood, but he also has starred in a few direct to VOD flicks. The first, Escape Plan 2, was a monumental disappointment, especially for those who enjoyed the first film, and his latest,…
If Beale Street Could Talk, which serves as Barry Jenkins’ confident follow-up to his Oscar winning Moonlight, is a bittersweet romantic drama that further underscores the racial divide in America, whether it be from decades previous, or right now in the moment. The film takes a perceptive (and saddening) look at how race defines everything…
