Stars: Deiondre Teagle, Faith Monique, Travis Cutner, Brad Belemjian, Scot Scurlock | Written and Directed by Charlie Steeds Death Ranch sees writer/director Charlie Steeds (The Barge People, An English Haunting) mixing blaxploitation films with grindhouse horror and, at times, healthy doses of black humour. The result is a gory, over-the-top exercise in bad taste that […]
Stars: Bruce Willis, Swen Temmel, Kate Katzman, Zack Ward, Chad Michael Murray, Kristos Andrews, Donna D’Errico, Canyon Prince, Michael Sirow | Written by Ross Peacock | Directed by James Cullen Bressack Survive the Game is the fourth Bruce Willis film I’ve reviewed this year. The first three, Cosmic Sin, Midnight in the Switchgrass and Out […]
Stars: Arianna Scott, Katie Sereika, Eric Roberts, Quinn Baker, Shayne Hartigan, Case Matthews, R.J. Wagner | Written by George Michael Phillips | Directed by Daniel Lusko [NOTE: With the film now out on DVD in the UK, here’s a reposting of our review of Ape vs. Monster from its US digital release] In 1985 the […]
Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich, Katie Finneran, Dana Drori | Written by Michael Kennedy, Christopher Landon | Directed by Christopher Landon Freaky is one of the few major motion pictures that has been released in the last few months of the year (at least in the United States) and is a […]
Stars: Danny Trejo, Rachele Brooke Smith, Terri Ivens, Nicolas Coster, Leah Ann Cevoli, Branden Smith, Adam Horner, Melanie Brooke Sweeney, Dennis LaValle | Written by Robin Bain, Amy Brown Carver, Lizzie Gordon | Directed by Robin Bain I have watched too many Danny Trejo movies to know that just by having his name on the […]
Features the voices of: Summer Jenkins, Richard E. Grant, Dan Stevens, Taylor-Paige Henderson, Vanessa Marshall | Written by Diana Wynne Jones (book), Keiko Niwa, Emi Gunji (screenplay)| Directed by Goro Miyazaki One of the things about Ghibli movies is that they have beautiful animation that feels full of life and has a certain style to […]
Stars: Steve Vanderzee, Eric Stone, Lowell Deo, Tonya M. Skoog, Meranda Long, Angela DiMarco, Marcus Leppard, Brad Jesernig, Nick Sage Palmieri, Luke Schuck, Jeffrey Arrington, Scott C Brown | Written and Directed by Jeremy Berg People say they would kill to be famous. Most of them, of course, wouldn’t. But would they keep quiet and […]
Stars: Wayne Gonsalves, Payton St. James, Brandon Perras-Sanchez, Christopher Dalpe | Written and Directed by Michael J. Ahern, Christopher Dalpe, Brandon Perras-Sanchez It’s unlikely that you go into Death Drop Gorgeous not knowing what to expect. But just in case you’ve came upon this review blind, then here’s what you get. A dejected bartender returns […]
Stars: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear | Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga No Time to Die, not to be confused with Too Young […]
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier | Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux If the name Quentin Dupieux rings a bell with you it may well be for his film Rubber, a monster movie in which the monster is a murderous tire. Deerskin doesn’t have any killer tires, but it does have […]
Stars: Megan Purvis, Jake Watkins, Georgie Banks, Tom Taplin, Becca Hirani, Kate Sandison, Tara MacGowran, Antonia Johnstone, Howard J Davey, Stuart Packer | Written by Sam Ashurst | Directed by Dan Allen As a kid growing up near North Yorkshire one of the few school trips we used to take were to the myriad of […]
Stars: Ariel Sekiya, Takeaki Abe, Miharu Chiba | Written and Directed by Masaya Kato Despite its title, Ouija Japan is not another carbon copy film about a bunch of kids summoning evil spirits. For one thing, the characters are all grown women. For another in this film the entity doesn’t bother killing them, it traps […]
Written by Mike McPherson, Jennifer Nangle | Directed by Brett DeJager, Max Groah, John Hale III, Zane Hershberger, Robert Lanphere, Jennifer Nangle, Tory van Buskirk, Stephen Wolfe I do love horror anthology movies. They can cover a wide range of horror sub genres, cost nothing or millions, a segment can be thirty seconds or thirty […]
Stars: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear | Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Daniel Craig makes his fifth and final appearance as James Bond […]
Stars: Dane Oliver, Jeffrey Byron, Thomas Shevela, Christina Hélène Braa, Michael Paré, Amanda Wyss, Alex Keener, Amanda Jones, Josh Cole, Hannah Hueston | Written and Directed by William Butler Coming from Full Moon Films and bearing the title The Resonator: Miskatonic U, it isn’t hard to guess this is a sequel to Stuart Gordon’s 80s […]
Stars: Jey Reynolds, Brendan Hines, Tatjana Marjanovic, Ola Kaminska, Kevin Daniels | Written and Directed by Chris Beyrooty, Connor Martin If a pandemic is going to strand you somewhere The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel would seem to be the ideal location to be forced to shelter in place. The oldest continually operating hotel in Los Angeles, […]
