Stars: Lauren Lyle, Layla Kirk, Joe Rising, James Watterson, Eoin Sweeney, Nicolette McKeown | Written by Ryan Hendrick, Meliá Grasska | Directed by Ryan Hendrick Going into this review, I don’t think I have much to say about Mercy Falls other than, with all respect to the cast and crew, you all came together and […]
Stars: Jennifer Nangle, James Morris, Emily Ashby, Derric Hyde, Rose Spencer, Taylor Rhoades, Yasmin Qudah, Brucellious Morris Jr., Justin P. Martin, Rosaria Eraso | Written by Michael Ballif, Jacob Perrett, Melissa Sapienza, Todd Martin, Zane Hershberger | Directed by Michael Ballif, Jacob Perrett, Brad Twigg, Zane Hershberger It’s taken a few more years than expected […]
Stars: Beck Bennett, Joel McHale, Alyson Hannigan, Tywayne Wheatt, Geoffrey Arend, Katlyn Carlson, Kelsey Grammer, J.B. Smoove, Kylie Bunbury | Written by Jared Lapidus, James McCarthy | Directed by Jared Lapidus In a slight change of pace from my recent viewing pleasures I decided to check out Office Race. A movie that by all accounts […]
Features the voices of: J.K. Simmons, Jimmy O. Yang, Chloe Bennet, Sharon Horgan, Lisa Lu, Catherine Tate, John Cleese | Written and Directed by Ross Venokur It must be kind of difficult for any modern-day animated filmmakers to make a film that is going to be popular. Outside of Disney/Pixar, Dreamworks and Studio Ghibli, It’s […]
Stars: Stephanie Leet, Neil Green, Erik Skybak, Chynna Rae Shurts | Written and Directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy Insidious Inferno is the latest film from Calvin Morie McCarthy and like his previous films Conjuring: The Beyond and An Amityville Poltergeist it has a title that refers to two other genre films, neither of which it […]
Stars: James Duval, Shawn C. Phillips, Lauren Francesca, Lisa Wilcox, Tom Sizemore, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Robert LaSardo, Lorelei Linklater, Sadie Katz, Eva Hamilton | Written by Shawn C. Phillips | Directed by Lauren Francesca, Shawn C. Phillips Woods Witch begins with the standard found footage title card telling us that what we are about to […]
Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, Anthony De La Torre, Jonathan Barnwell, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Lucian Charles Collier | Written by Jonas Akerlund, Dennis Magnusson | Directed by Jonas Akerlund Rory Culkin, starring in one of the most interesting and weird true stories of all time should be a […]
Stars: Sonya Walger, Hayley Erin, Tony Amendola | Written and Directed by John Rosman New Life is a low-key ground-floor beginning of-the-apocalypse thriller. A character-driven piece of one woman’s fight to evade capture and another woman’s race to find her. Told from two very uniquely distinctive perspectives worlds apart yet not so different. As a […]
Stars: Randy Couture, Oleg Prudius, Natalie Eva Marie, Neal McDonough, Rashad Evans, Frank Mir, Chuck Zito, Jonathan Camp, Bai Ling | Written and Directed by Daniel Zirilli Everett Grant (Randy Couture; Antidote, Blowback) has beef with Russian mobster Maxim Vasiliiv played by Oleg Prudius (Miami Heat, The Weapon) or if you’re a pro wrestling fan, […]
Stars: Annabel Logan, Joma West, Josie Rogers, Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Cedric Gall, Paddy Kondracki | Written and Directed by Graham Hughes Just when I start to think the “Found Footage” genre has been completely played out, along comes Hostile Dimensions, a low-budget indie horror sci-fi that on paper plays on a whole bunch of […]
Features the voices of: Tess Passero, Sydney Wharton, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, Ellar Coltrane | Written and Directed by Zach Passero If ever there was a movie you could not blame for false advertising, it would be Weird Kidz. Having just finished this feature-length animation about… Well… Christ knows what it is really about but […]
Stars: Tal Hymans, Alec Snow, Tara Jay, Melissa Brattoni | Written and Directed by Jon Cohen The Hanged Girl was initially shot, and released in some countries as The Haunting at Saint Joseph’s, something writer/director Jon Cohen should be used to as his 2009 exercise in torture porn, The 7th Hunt was retitled and rereleased […]
Stars: Alain Moussi, Stephen Dorff, Zoe Worn, Frank Grillo, Gianni Capaldi, Georges St-Pierre, Marie Avgeropoulos, Kevin Grevioux | Written and Directed by Kevin Grevioux With the possible exception of rock stars and professional athletes, hitmen have the worst record for staying retired. And the central character of King of Killers is certainly no exception. Marcus […]
Stars: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila | Written and Directed by Jalmari Helander Finnish writer-director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, Big Game) returns with an outrageously violent and deliriously entertaining WWII action movie that’s an absolute must-see if you’re a fan of exploding Nazis. An inspired mash-up of Inglourious Basterds, Road […]
Directed by Gavin J. Konop and starring Warden Wayne, Sean Thomas Reid and Moriah Brooklyn, Spider-Man: Lotus tells another tale of Peter Parker, who is struggling to recover from the loss of Gwen Stacy and contemplating hanging up the suit for good, until he receives a letter from a terminally ill child, requesting that Spider-Man […]
Stars: Hannah New, Vince Lozano, Tom Malloy, David Josh Lawrence, Jamie Scott Gordon, Gordon Holliday, Megan Tremethick | Written by Tom Malloy, David Josh Lawrence | Directed by Lawrie Brewster When we reviewed Trauma Therapy: Psychosis it was mentioned the fillm was a reworked version of The Vance Institute. A was originally shot with the […]
Stars: Ted Raimi, Merrick McCartha, Noel Douglas Orput, Melissa Diaz | Written and Directed by Alex Kahuam Having debuted his 2021 film Forgiveness at Frightfest, director Alex Kahuam follows it up with Failure! another “one-take” horror that sees 56-year-old James (Ted Raimi) caught between a rock and a hard place. Due to a massive debt […]
Stars: Hugo Dillon, Ophelia Kolb, Arben Bajraktaraj, Manon Maindivide | Written and Directed by Quarxx Nathan and Daniel wake at the scene of a car crash, confused and seemingly unscathed. The two men begin to slowly understand that they did not make it. They are dead. Nathan’s previous acts will now determine his fate, however […]
Stars: Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Stefan Kapicic, Grace Patterson, Olivia Rouyre, Kelly Lynn Reiter, Bianca Beckles-Rose, Tiff Stevenson | Written by Bradley Fowler, Cady Lanigan | Directed by Matthew Goodhue What could possibly top the recent run of cocaine-fueled bears, sharks, and cougars? How about a cute, three-toed critter turning a sorority house into a […]
Stars: Dana Berger, Max Woertendyke | Written and Directed by Dane Elcar Let’s get this out of the way up front… I’ll be honest, in my opinion, Brightwood is one of the smartest well-executed high concept low low-budget projects I have seen in a good long while. I will be diving into the film a […]
