Stars: Harley Wallen, Angelina Danielle Cama, Kaiti Wallen, Jimmy Doom, Erika Hoveland, Jamie Bernadette | Written by Bret Miller | Directed by Harley Wallen Director Harley Wallen opens his film in compelling fashion, intercutting the credits with night-time scenes of a woman running through the grass. She’s out of breath and distressed, courtesy of trying […]
Stars: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, Ian Pirie, Eilidh Fisher, Steffan Cennydd, Thoren Ferguson, Alexandra Lewis | Written by Christopher Smith, Laurie Cook | Directed by Chris Smith How would the modern world cope with the coming of a fallen angel? How would science and religion collide and what if a “scientist” was in […]
Stars: Natalie Terrazzino, JC Oakley III, Larry Bunton, Philip Zimny, Trevor Tucker | Written by Greg Swinson | Directed by Ryan Thiessen, Greg Swinson Hunt Her Kill Her is somewhat of a home invasion thriller but on a grander scale, set in the large landscape of a warehouse rather than the small confines of a […]
Stars: Isabella Händler, Inga Maux, Jochen Nickel | Written and Directed by Marie Alice Wolfszahn Sigrun Fink, desperate for information about her biological family, starts a new position as nurse to the aging, ill and eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. For a shared longing binds them together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun’s true […]
Stars: Michael Bonini, Spencer Harrison Levin, Taneisha Figueroa | Written by Travis Bible, Kemerton Hargrove | Directed by Travis Bible Found footage is SO hard to get right. For every Blair Witch Project we get a myriad of direct-to-DVD (or streaming) shaky-cam horrors that substitute actual filmmaking and crafting real scares for cheap camerawork and […]
Stars: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, Rachel Zegler, Djimon Hounsou, Grace Fulton, Ian Chen, Jovan Armand, Faithe Herman, Cooper Andrews, Marta Milans, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, Meagan Good | Written by Henry Gayden, Chris Morgan, Bill Parker | Directed by David F. Sandberg Zachary Levi returns for a sequel […]
Stars: Kimberly-Sue Murray | Features the voices of: Shaun Benson, Stephen Bogaert, Ellen Dubin, Samora Smallwood, Art Hindle | Written and Directed by Corey Stanton From the opening shot panning downstairs into a basement apartment, writer/director Corey Stanton establishes the sole location his film occurs within. A phone call is taking place, as a lone […]
Stars: Tom Staunton, Michael Brewster, Megan Tremethick, Alexander Zorn, Richard Pate | Written by Tom Staunton | Directed by Lawrie Brewster Tom (Tom Staunton, who also wrote the script) and his cameraman Mike (Michael Brewster; The Unkindness of Ravens, Slot) are The Ghost Crew, a paranormal investigation team try, without much success, to get some […]
Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Nuno Lopes, Kris Hitchen | Written by Marco Martins, Ricardo Adolfo | Directed by Marco Martins Three months before Brexit, hundreds of migrant workers arrive at the UK seaside town of Great Yarmouth looking for work. Many of them end up in local turkey processing plants, with Tânia (Beatriz Batarda) now overseeing […]
Stars: Michael Ironside, Jackson Rathbone, Arnold Vosloo, Jorge Garcia, Bruce Davison, Jacob Keohane, Al Pagano, Corinne Britti, James Urbaniak | Written and Directed by Phil Blattenberger Writer and director Phil Blattenburg has done a good job here to create a World War II movie set ten years after the end of the war. That might […]
Stars: Felissa Rose, Al Gomez, Holly Rockwell, Kevin Caliber, Ashley Undercuffler, Xavier Roe, Likun Jing, Rachel Amanda Bryant, Toya Morman, Gregory Blair, Frankie Guzman, Miranda Bourke | Written by Gregory Blair, J. Horton | Directed by J. Horton Opening in 1998, two armed officers enter an abandoned bar to witness the aftermath of a slaughter. […]
Stars: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King, Brian Dare | Written and Directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods Adam Driver is undoubtedly one of the most talented actors working today, perhaps even the most talented, yet all that talent can’t help save 65 from being one of the dullest films in recent years. […]
Stars: Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem | Written and Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski Immersed in her job as a teacher at a local middle school, Rachel (Virginie Efira) lives with her reality of being 40 years old with no children. At a group guitar lesson, she meets Ali (Roschdy Zem) and the pair strike up a […]
Stars: Peter Stephen Wolmarans, Sandra Pizzullo, Penelope Sangiorgi, Rocco Marazzita | Written and Directed by Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà Sound of Silence was written and directed by Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar, and Stefano Mandalà who work collectively under the label of T3. They previously made the feature You Die and several shorts including […]
Stars: Romain Duris, Beěreěnice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Sébastien Chassagne, Raphaël Quenard, Lyès Salem, Jean-Pascal Zadi | Written and Directed by Michel Hazanavicius When I first saw One Cut of the Dead, I didn’t think that in a couple of years’ time I would be watching a French remake of […]
Stars: Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aishling Franciosi | Written by Shane Crowley | Directed by Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer In a small Irish fishing town, a son unexpectedly comes home from Australia out of the blue. Though his mother is delighted, the rest of his family appear to be wary — up until the […]
Stars: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Chris Walley, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Kristian Nairn, Niamh Cusack | Written by Jon Wright, Mark Stay | Directed by Jon Wright Well my friends I have officially seen what I consider to be my best of 2023… So far of course, I mean it’s only March. However I kid […]
