Stars: Joe Begos, Matt Mercer, Riley Dandy, Jason Eisener, Josh Ethier, James Russo | Written and Directed by Joe Begos There’s a particular strain of indie genre cinema that feels like it was made by a couple of horror-obsessed mates who’ve mainlined VHS-era splatter and decided to just go for it. Jimmy and Stiggs sits […]
Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Lukas Hassel, Lin Shaye, Gary Clarke, Marval A. Rex, Sean Freeland, William Magnuson, Kelsey Pribilski | Written by Lukas Hassel | Directed by Lisa Belcher Every so often a horror film comes along that doesn’t want to scare you in the traditional sense. It doesn’t care about jump scares, masked slashers, or […]
Stars: Norma-Sue Hill, Osawa Muskwa, Ryan Lunn, Derek Groulx, Alex Sobchuk, Ali Chappell, Sayla de Goede, Tim Denis, Zeus Fleming | Written by Christopher Darton | Directed by Christopher Darton, Sophie Godin You know that feeling when a horror movie somehow beats the odds just by existing? That’s The Damnation. Born from a three-year production […]
Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Shaun Ashmore, Jessy Schram, Elizabeth Mitchell, Brent Bailey, Maddison Bullock, Bruce Davis | Written by Kyle Kauwika Harris, Steven Jon Whritner | Directed by Kyle Kauwika Harris The Huntsman – not to be confused with the Chris Hemsworth vehicle of the same name, although there is a Snow White connection here. There’s […]
Stars: Willa Holland, Paul Sparks, Mark Steger, Shelly Gibson, Keena Ferguson, John Adams, Emily Bennett | Written by Tracee Beebe, Brian Clarke | Directed by Jeremiah Kipp For his latest feature, director Jeremiah Kipp opens with a sight one would expect from the title – a body being embalmed. This is the final step for […]
Stars: Alexander Arnold, Jussi Lampi, Liam James Collins, Arthur Sylense, Nadine Higgin, Jeremiah Crosby, Darren McStay, Celin El Azizi | Written by Joey Palmroos, Anders Holmes | Directed by Joey Palmroos “Going up the mountain, are we?” Alexander Arnold (no, not that one) delivers a performance that thrives as Delivery Run takes the highway to […]
When you think of Hong Kong cinema, one name towers above the rest: Chang Cheh. A true titan of the industry, his career spanned six decades, and at his most prolific, he was releasing up to eight films in a single year – an output that more than justifies his reputation as the ‘Godfather of […]
Stars: Jennifer Nangle, Jennifer Moriarty, Sayeed Bensalama, Cody J. Briscoe, Anastasia Elfman, Rich Gordon, Ken May, David McManus, Emily Tait | Written and Directed by Dustin Ferguson, Matthew McManus, Taylor McManus, Dylan R. Nix, Ryan Sheets Having previously covered 10/31: Part II and 10/31: Part III here on Nerdly, it’s fair to say the 10/31 […]
Stars: Josh Duhamel, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Rick Hoffman, Aidan Gillen, Neil Sandlands, Arnold Vosloo | Written by Omer Levin Menekse, Quinn Wolfe, Allan Ungar | Directed by Allan Ungar Josh Duhamel first made a name for himself on the soap opera All My Children, a role that earned him a Daytime Emmy and put him […]
Stars: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Fred Tatasciore | Written by Darrick Bachman, Pete Browngardt, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, Alex Kirwan, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher, Michael Ruocco, Johnny Ryan, Eddie Trigueros | Directed by Pete Browngardt The Day the Earth Blew Up is the fourth Looney Tunes feature film and the first […]
Stars: Chance Johnson, Robin Covington, Ryan Teer, Joelle Arp-Dunham, Nullen Boyde, Sterling Muse, Tyler Woods | Written and Directed by Walter Wright There are microbudget movies… and then there’s Only Feet – a black-and-white, iPhone-shot erotic “thriller” that leans heavily into the word erotic while never quite earning the label. Written, produced and directed by […]
Stars: Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace, Richard ‘Dirty Harry’ Hall, Monica Craig, Marjorie Norman, Jacob Miller, Gregory Isaacs, Winston Rodney, Frank Dowding, Robbie Shakespeare | Written and Directed by Ted Bafaloukos Before reggae conquered international charts and became a global movement, it was already the lifeblood of Kingston’s streets – blasting from sound systems, drifting through alleyways […]
Stars: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Liam Neeson, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Robbert Addie, Gabriel Byrne, Keith Buckley, Corin Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Ciarán Hinds, Clive Swift, Katrine Boorman | Written by Thomas Malory, Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | Directed by John Boorman Some legends are simply destined for the big screen. The tale of […]
Stars: Alexander Arnold, Jussi Lampi, Liam James Collins, Arthur Sylense, Nadine Higgin, Jeremiah Crosby, Darren McStay, Celin El Azizi | Written by Joey Palmroos, Anders Holmes | Directed by Joey Palmroos A hard-up food delivery driver finds himself fighting for his life when he makes an enemy of a murderous snowplough driver in snowy Minnesota. […]
Down on the farm, humour was on full display with the hilarious antics of Ma and Pa Kettle. No one ever dreamed that when Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray went to the farm with the film The Egg and I, it would lead to a film series, but not with them. Margorie Main and Percy […]
Stars: Jorma Tommila, Richard Brake, Stephen Lang | Written and Directed by Jalmari Helander Breath-takingly violent Finnish WWII action flick Sisu became a sleeper hit in 2022, seemingly coming out of nowhere and delighting legions of genre fans in the process. Now director Jalmari Helander and stoic star Jorma Tommila are back, with an enjoyable […]
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Larry John Meyers, Beth Grant, Rohn Thomas, Molly Renfroe, Judy Grafe, Robert Joy | Written and Directed by George A. Romero There are few authors as prolific – or as consistently adapted – as Stephen King. His novels and short stories have found their way onto the big screen time and […]
Stars: Dafne Keen, Sophie Nelisse, Percy Hynes White, Nick Frost, Jhaleil Swaby, Ali Skovbye, Sky Yang, Michelle Fairley | Written by Owen Egerton | Directed by Corin Hardy A group of high schoolers encounter a cursed Aztec death whistle in this enjoyable teen horror from director Corin Hardy (The Nun, TV’s Gangs of London). Various […]
Stars: Laura Ellen Wilson, Bill Oberst Jr., Lynn Lowry, Shawn Michael Clankie | Written by József Gallai, Beáta Boldog | Directed by József Gallai In unsettling found footage film A Stranger in the Woods, by director József Gallai, filmmaker Edith (Laura Ellen Wilson) heads into remote woodland America to interview the reclusive old man said to […]
Stars: Scott Adkins, Vinnie Jones, Dean Gaffney, Nicole Deon, Kris Johnson, Mark Strange | Written by Matthew Robert Kelly, Stu Small | Directed by Elliott Montello I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve opened a review with a line like, “I’ll watch anything with Scott Adkins.” But the sentiment always stands. If I […]
Stars: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Michelle Phillips | Written and Directed by John Milius Gangsters and the mafia have always fascinated me; these people were larger-than-life characters. Even in the depression era, Al Capone was considered by many Americans to be a hero. That is crazy to me. Perhaps that […]
