When Las Vegas cop Vincent Downs (Foxx) and his crooked partner steal a cocaine shipment bound for a drug dealing casino boss. The desperate businessman retaliates by kidnapping Vincent’s son. Pursued by an idealistic fellow cop and a drug kingpin, Vincent must rely on his street smarts and sheer force of will as he tries…
The Prop Store auction is fast approaching and out of 600 items that will be up for sale at the auction it was incredibly hard to choose just 50 of my favorites. I’ve taken a look at the catalog and made some tough decisions along the way and I hope you enjoy the top 50…
Happy force Friday everyone and what a treat I have for you in store today. Found in the dark recesses of the galaxy is this levitating Death Star speaker courtesy of Plox and licensed by Disney. The novelty of all novelties this Death Star Bluetooth speaker will play all the tunes in your dark side…
Tonight’s feature presentation is one of my all-time favourites from childhood, the 1986 family movie SpaceCamp, which is finally hitting Blu-ray later this year courtesy of those wonderful people at Kino Lorber. I watched this movie 8,458 times while growing up, endlessly hoping that somehow, someday, I’d end up in a space ship. It was…
No, I’m not admitting to being in love with a zombie although if you’ve seen the TV show horror I’d be more than happy to fall in love with Liv the zombie. Just keep her well fed with brains (to avoid her eating you) and you’re golden! Rotting flesh and a love of brains (eating…
The charming, offbeat indie Dave Made a Maze is one of those efforts that truly feels hand-made and the product of a filmmaker who had a very specific vision and a very specific way of realizing that vision. Directed by Bill Watterson from a script he co-wrote with Steven Sears, this quirky and unconventional piece…
ARZombi is an ARKit designed game that turns your home into a live-action zombie apocalypse. The game will map your windows and doors and it’s your job to board them up and protect your home from a zombie invasion using all the tools and weapons at your disposal. As you fight the horde of the…
I can remember seeing Steven Soderbergh’s sad, romantic, and often times thought provoking science fiction film Solaris on opening weekend at the Arclight in Hollywood back in 2002, and as I recall, I seemed to be one of the only people in that theater who enjoyed what they’d seen. I’m not sure what people were…
A neon art collector seduces a lone drifter into killing her abusive husband. Death Waits For No Man is directed and written by Armin Siljkovic. The movie starts off on a slow burn with the opening sequence failing to suck me in via the usual personalities of those involved on screen. The opening scene alone…
File this one under “IT WOULD NEVER BE MADE TODAY.” Totally awesome and completely irresponsible, the 1984 children’s fantasy action film Cloak & Dagger was a staple item of my HBO-watching youth, and I can remember literally exhausting the family VHS copy after my mom taped it off the movie channel. Directed by Richard Franklin…
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Dirty Dancing, Amazon Prime members will be able to stream and download the original Dirty Dancing (1987) and the musical Dirty Dancing (2017) in the UK and Ireland from the 27th August 2017. And if that’s not enough for you, we’ve got the rest of your bank holiday weekend…
A Brilliant Monster is a study into the stressful depths of the creative mind, the lengths that one goes through for success, and the anxiety to keep on producing while on top. Is it mental instability? Or the pressures of a society built to reward the selfish? This uber low independent movie takes an abstract…
Wind River is masterful, utterly immaculate filmmaking, almost suffocating in its greatness by the time its powerful conclusion unfolds. Written and directed by the extremely talented storyteller Taylor Sheridan, who in the past few years has scripted the one-two punch of Sicario (for Denis Villeneuve) and Hell or High Water (for David Mackenzie); I’m happy…
So, you thought our Chucky coverage for the night was all done and dusted? Oh hell naw! The opening night film at this year’s UK FrightFest in London was of course Cult of Chucky but that’s not all. Right before Cult of Chucky started playing we were treated to a small documentary shot by Krya…
Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently smiling face —…
Steven Soderbergh is back to directing feature films with the recently released Southern-fried heist-comedy Logan Lucky. This is an enjoyable late-summer offering with a busy plot, featuring one narrative strand that could’ve been jettisoned with no overall harm being done to the movie. I’m surprised that this little pisser of a film wasn’t a tad…
