10th Jun2020

‘Gold Dust’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: David Wysocki, David Wall, Darin Brooks, Chris Romano, Kerry Wall, Burns Burns, Garrett Marchbank, Maggie Hough, Derek Severson, Liam Wall, Much Hough, Finnegan Wall, Lucy Hough | Written and Directed by David Wall Somewhere along the border with Mexico, two lifelong friends – prospectors – use moth eaten maps and passed down legends in […]

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09th Jun2020

‘Becky’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Ryan McDonald, Robert Mailett, Amanda Brugel, Isaiah Rockcliffe, James McDougall | Written by Nick Morris, Ruckus Skye, Lane Skye | Directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion Co-directing duo Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion (Cooties, Bushwick) return for Becky, a smartly conceived home invasion thriller that plays like a […]

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09th Jun2020

‘They Reach’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell, Kyan Zielinski, Elizabeth Rhoades, Ash Calder, Frederick Floyd, Taylor Bartle, Damian Vines, Adrienne Jordan, Steffanie Foster Gustafson, Eric Schmidt, Kara Puerschner, Tyler Time, Tony Gee | Written by Sylas Dall, Bry Troyer | Directed by Sylas Dall Opening in 1969, They Reach sees father and son supernatural […]

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09th Jun2020

‘Celebrity Crush’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Oliver Robins, Alissa Schneider, Melissa McNerney, Jonathan D. Lee, Wade Hunt Williams, Eddie Craig, Sage Croft, Jim Horning | Written by Oliver Robins, Jeff Rubin | Directed by Oliver Robins Oliver Robins, who most genre fans will know from the first two Poltergeist movies where he’d played Robbie Freeling, steps both infront and behind […]

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09th Jun2020

‘Assassin’s Target’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jimena Gala, Ben Vinnicombe, James Giblin, Karina Matas Piper, Maarten Swaan, Gilles Gambino, Alika Del Sol, Mat Cruz | Written and Directed by Gilles Gambino Rosa is a unassuming woman who is also a master assassin with a knack for poisons wants out of her line of work. Given the opportunity for one last […]

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08th Jun2020

‘The Candy Witch’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jon Callaway, Abi Casson Thompson, Kate Lush, Heather Jackson, Richard D. Myers, Will Stanton, Hannah Ponting, Kate Milner Evans, Jon-Scott Clark, Barbara Dabson, Shakil Hussain, Hattie Willow, Richard Harfst, Shawn C. Phillips, Chelsea Murphy | Written by Scott Jeffrey | Directed by Rebecca Matthews The latest film from prolific UK genre out fit Proportion […]

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05th Jun2020

‘Buffaloed’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Zoey Deutch, Jai Courtney, Jermaine Fowler, Judy Greer, Noah Reid, Lusia Strus, Lorrie Odom, Raymond Ablack, Nicholas Carella, Paulyne Wei, James M. Connor, Jayne Eastwood, Kate Moyer | Written by Brian Sacca | Directed by Tanya Wexler When an acceptance letter to the school of her dreams arrives, hustler Peg Dahl (Zoey Deutch) falls […]

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04th Jun2020

‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Blu-ray Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Lee Majdoub, Neal McDonough, Tom Butler, Frank C. Turner | Written by Patrick Casey, Josh Miller | Directed by Jeff Fowler Things didn’t exactly get off to a flying start with the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. When the initial trailer was released, fans […]

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04th Jun2020

‘Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Stacey Oristano, Rib Hillis, Ed Amatrudo, Bruce Thomas, Tyler Perez, Morgan Lindholm, Evan Sloan, Mike Capozzi, Jason Cabell, Soufiane El Khalidy, Josh Crotty, Cassidy Schiltz, Chris Ashworth, Autumn Federici | Written by Blaine Chiappetta, Rafael Jordan, Ari Novak | Directed by Nick Lyon When massive volcanic storms begin to spew from the Earth, geophysicist […]

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04th Jun2020

‘Madness in the Method’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Teri Hatcher, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Gina Carano, Jaime Camil, Mickey Gooch Jr., Stan Lee, Brian O’Halloran, Esther Anderson, Blake Harrison, Matt Willis | Written by Dominic Burns, Chris Anastasi | Directed by Jason Mewes [NOTE: With the film hitting digital outlets next week, here’s a reposting of our review […]

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03rd Jun2020

‘Next Door Spy’ VOD Review

by Alain Elliott

Features the voices of: Simone Edemann Møgelbjerg, Dar Salim, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Tommy Kenter, Søs Egelind, Oliver Bøtcher, Kristine Sloth, Viggo Bengtson | Written and Directed by Karla von Bengtson A spy movie for children might seem like an odd choice for me to review but I have watched and enjoyed several […]

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03rd Jun2020

‘Parasite’ Blu-ray Review

by Alex Ginnelly

Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Jeong-eun Lee, Hye-jin Jang, Ji-hye Lee, Ji-so Jung, Myeong-hoon Park, Seo-joon Park, Keun-rok Park | Written and Directed by Bong Joon Ho Best picture winner at the Oscars, Parasite is yet another force to prove that Bong Joon Ho is one of the best […]

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02nd Jun2020

‘Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway’ VOD Review

by Stuart Wright

Stars: Daniel Tadesse, Guillermo Llansó, Agustín Mateo, Gerda-Annette Allikas, Solomon Tashe, Lauri Lagle, Rene Köster, Iveta Pole, Aris Rozentals | Written and Directed by Miguel Llanso At its heart, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, is a Cold War paranoia thriller. It’s about two CIA Agents: Palmer and Gagano. They need to destroy […]

02nd Jun2020

‘Don’t Run’ VOD Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Charlotte Arnold, Holly Arnold, Grant Brooks, Cody Cheatwood, Darlene Cooper, Jodie Dunn, Dan Foley, Cameron Hollstegge, Jeremias Iribarren, Danny Irizarry, Wendy Keeling, John Newkirk | Written and Directed by Ben Rood In a rather strange story, Don’t Run is about a shy and quiet teenager who ends up trapped in his house by a […]

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01st Jun2020

‘Porno’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Evan Daves, Jillian Mueller, Katelyn Pearce, Peter Reznikoff, Larry Saperstein, Glenn Stott, Robbie Tann | Written by Matt Black, Laurence Vannicelli | Directed by Keola Racela Two of my all-time favourite horror films are Michele Soavi’s Stagefright (1987), which sees a group of stage actors locked in the theater for a rehearsal of their […]

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01st Jun2020

‘Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Features: Al Adamson, Ken Adamson, Stevee Ashlock, Ewing ‘Lucky’ Brown, John ‘Bud’ Cardos, Greydon Clark, Robert Dix, Guadalupe Garcia, Gary Graver, Marilyn Joi, Gary Kent, Samuel M. Sherman, Russ Tamblyn, Zandor Vorkov, Vilmos Zsigmond | Written and Directed by David Gregory Documentaries chronicling cinemas past are nothing new, but it seems that since the debut […]

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29th May2020

‘White Fire’ Blu-ray Review (Arrow Video)

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn, Mirella Banti, Diana Goodman, Gordon Mitchell | Written and Directed by Jean-Marie Pallardy White Fire, also known as Vivre Pour Survivre (the on-screen title of this new Arrow Video Blu-ray release) is a 1984 action film made in Turkey, by a French man, and features two […]

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29th May2020

‘Ouija Shark’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Steph Goodwin, Kylie Gough, Robin Hodge, John Migliore, Amy Osborne, Christina Roman, Zoe Towne, Peter Whittaker | Written by David A. Lloyd | Directed by Scott Patrick (aka Brett Kelly) Director Brett Kelly, under his Scott Patrick pseudonym, re-teams with writer David A. Lloyd for the duos THIRD shark movie (the first two being […]

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29th May2020

‘Blood Tide’ Blu-ray Review (Arrow Video)

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Martin Kove, James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer, Mary Louise Weller, Deborah Shelton, Lila Kedrova, Lydia Cornell, Sofia Seirli, Spyros Papafrantzis | Written by Richard Jeffries, Nico Mastorakis | Directed by Richard Jeffries Arrow Video’s line of Niko Mastorakis releases (keep them coming Arrow, please!) continues with early 80s exploitationer Blood Tide, a film that […]

28th May2020

‘Exorcism at 60,0000 Feet’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Robert Miano, Bai Ling, Lance Henriksen, Matthew Moy, Kevin J. O’Connor, Bill Moseley, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Rhine, Silvia Spross, Kelli Maroney, Kyle Jones, Johnny Williams, Jin N. Tonic, Stephanie Peti, Gina Salvano | Written by Robert Rhine, Daniel Benton | Directed by Chad Ferrin Produced by genre magazine Girls and Corpses and distributed by […]

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28th May2020

‘The Rizen’ VOD Review

by Nik Holman

Stars: Laura Swift, Patrick Knowles, Christopher Tajah, Laurence Kennedy, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adrian Edmondson, Sally Phillips, Tom Goodman-Hill, Bruce Payne, Stephen Marcus, Bruce Herbelin-Earle | Written and Directed by Matt Mitchell [NOTE: With High Fliers Films re-releasing The Rizen on VOD this week, here’s a reposting of our review from the films original DVD release back […]

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28th May2020

‘Bad Boys For Life’ Blu-ray Review

by Alex Ginnelly

Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Nuñez, Kate del Castillo, Joe Pantoliano | Written by Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan | Directed by Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah The world of Bad Boys started 25 years ago in 1995, when Will Smith was just Will Smith from The […]

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