Stars: Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mason Gooding | Written by Scott Mann, Jonathan Frank | Directed by Scott Mann If you thought you weren’t afraid of heights, think again – this utterly terrifying don’t-look-down thriller from director Scott Mann will have you clutching the sides of your seat in sheer sweaty-palmed […]
Stars: Anwen Bull, James Knapp | Written and Directed by Theo Kai Marlow Making its debut at this year’s FrightFest writer/director Theo Kai Marlow’s (The Most Savage Wedding Ever) eighteen-minute short Everyone Forgot has its roots in one of those nightmares that lurk in the back of everyone’s mind, nobody remembering that it’s your birthday. […]
Stars: Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Jeffries, Sharlto Copley, Martin Munro, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa, Mduduzi Mavimbela, Kazi Khuboni | Written by Ryan Engle | Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Despite a poor script that makes the film too predictable, Beast offers up enough lion thrills to keep you entertained for the 90-minute run time. Idris […]
Kev has been dying to watch the Scott Mann flick Fall and finally here he is getting to talk about it. So let’s see what he thought. Experience a heart-pounding tale of survival from the producers of 47 Meters Down where sacrifice may just be the only way out. A fast drop and a sudden […]
Stars: Emma Appleton, Stefanie Martini, Rory Fleck Byrne, Aaron Monaghan, Hugh O’Conor | Written by Andrew Legge, Angeli Macfarlane | Directed by Andrew Legge Directed by Andrew Legge, LOLA is an inventive and original British time travel thriller that makes inspired use of archive footage and features a superb soundtrack, including an original song by […]
Stars: Charlotte Kirk, Jamie Bamber, Jonathan Howard, Hadi Khanjanpour, Tanji Kibong, Leon Ockenden, Troy Alexander | Written and Directed by Neil Marshall Director Neil Marshall returns with a soldiers-vs-monsters thriller that harks back to his 2002 debut Dog Soldiers. Unfortunately, it’s something of a mixed bag – there are some entertainingly gloopy gore moments and […]
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Javon Walton, Pilou Asbaek, Dascha Polanco, Moisés Arias | Written by Bragi Schut | Directed by Julius Avery Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbour Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is actually a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty years ago, Granite City’s super-powered vigilante, Samaritan, was […]
Stars: Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, Regina Hall, Tahj Mowry, Jimmy O. Yang | Written and Directed by John Hamburg With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure. Do we really need yet another Kevin Hart comedy this […]
Stars: Katreeva Phillips, John Francis McCullagh, Madison Calhoun, Billy Blair, Timothy Stevens | Written and Directed by Timothy Stevens Alex (Katreeva Phillips; The 13th of Never, The Universe Holographic) has returned home for her father Aurthur’s (John Francis McCullagh; The Dead Hand, Stok Stalk Stock) funeral. The only problem is she’s two days late, which […]
Stars: Leonardo Fuica, Caitlin Cameron, Hannah Forest Briand, Alex Gravenstein | Written by Leonardo Fuica | Directed by Demian Fuica, Leonardo Fuica The events around us shape a lot of the entertainment we see on television and in movies. Camping Trip is a movie that shows this is exactly the case. Taking place while the […]
Stars: Jo Koy, Lydia Gaston, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Carly Pope | Written by Kate Angelo, Ken Cheng | Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar A man returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to the Filipino-American community. Jay Chandrasekhar‘s Easter Sunday is definitely a […]
Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM, from director Ray Burdis, is a retelling of the birth and development of a fledgling pirate radio station and those passionate few that would pave their own way in the pursuit of giving a voice to the growing popularity of the indie Britpop scene in the 1990s. […]
Stars: Danny Schluck, Brandon DeLany, Aimee Fogelman, Jennifer Askew, Victoria Meade | Written by Danny Schluck | Directed by Chad Ostrom The Day After Halloween (no relation to the Australian film Snapshot which was released in the US under that title) actually opens on Halloween as Addison (Danny Schluck; Street to Table) and Hayes (Brandon […]
For his latest video review, Kev sits down to talk about They/Them – the new horror slasher from Blumhouse, which stars Kevin Bacon as a conversion therapy camp counsellor; in a film that tries to put the camp back into Summer Camp! A group of teenagers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endures unsettling psychological techniques […]
Stars: Andrea Londo, Shawn Ashmore, Jane Badler, Michael Berry Jr., Elizabeth Cappuccino, Dominic Hoffman, Lorenzo Antonucci, Marc Senter, Madeleine Coghlan, Jackie Dallas, Samuel Davis | Written by Kent Harper | Directed by Adam Stilwell For his freshman film director Adam Stilwell (The Triangle) teams up with writer Kent Harper, who co-wrote the brilliant Surveillance with […]
Welcome to the latest installment in our regular Movies You May Have Missed series here on Nerdly, in which I highlight some of, what I think, are the best movies that have flown under the radar of many or have been “forgotten” in the intervening years since its release. This time round it’s At Your […]
Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Hiro Kanagawa, Matthew Finlan | Written by David Coggeshall | Directed by William Brent Bell After escaping from a psychiatric facility in Estonia, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. Yet, an unexpected twist arises that pits her against a mother who […]
Stars: Geoff Woodman, Tony Manders, Nicole Katherine Riddell, Kemal Yildirim, Alex Nathan-Woods, Emma Feeney, Martin W. Payne | Written by Richard Rowntree, Matthew Davies | Directed by Richard Rowntree Mask of the Devil, the third feature from director Richard Rowntree and co-writer Matthew Davies after Dogged and Nefarious, opens in 1878 somewhere in West Africa. […]
Stars: Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Alessandro Nivola, Molly Shannon, Tim Heidecker | Written by Jeff Baena, Alison Brie | Directed by Jeff Baena When the manager of an American chain restaurant is selected to attend a special training program in Italy, her head swims with dreams of European glamour and romance. But the trip turns […]
Stars: Ego Mikitas, Maxi Witrak, Terrance Livingston Jr., Lydia Hunter, Michael Deni, Tania Fox, Natasha Goubskaya | Written by Ryan Ebert, Anna Rasmussen | Directed by Glenn Campbell, Tammy Klein The biggest surprise about Shark Side of the Moon is that, in a genre that’s already seen Sharks of the Corn, Sharkula, Ouija Shark and […]
Features the voices of: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ynairaly Simo, Zoe Saldana, Juan de Marcos González, Brian Tyree Henry | Written by Kirk DeMicco, Quiara Alegria Hudes | Directed by Kirk DeMicco Vivo follows a one-of-kind kinkajou (aka a rainforest “honey bear,” voiced by Lin-Manuel Miranda), who spends his days playing music to the crowds in a […]
