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 […]
Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone | Written by Will Tracy | Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Emma Stone reunites with director Yorgos Lanthimos for Bugonia, the pair’s fourth feature following their fruitful collaborations on The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, as well as a short film. A remake […]
Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Birkett Turton, Eden Weiss, Claire Friesen, Christin Park, Erin Boyes, Tess Degenstein | Written by Nick Lepard | Directed by Osgood Perkins Prolific horror specialist Osgood Perkins (Longlegs, The Monkey) is back with freaky cabin-in-the-woods horror, Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany, who’s rapidly becoming one of Hollywood’s best actresses. Experimental in […]
Hollywood legend Spencer Tracy starred in countless iconic films over the course of his remarkable career, earning two Academy Awards along the way – one for Captains Courageous (1937) and another for Boys Town (1938). Warner Archive Collection has been releasing actor-spotlight Blu-ray sets that bring together previously issued individual discs into a single collection […]
Stars: Jason Statham, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Harriet Walter, Celine Buckens | Written by Ward Parry | Directed by Ric Roman Waugh Jason Statham teams with action director Ric Roman Waugh (Greenland, Angel Has Fallen) for Shelter, a generic but entertaining action thriller set in the UK. As such, the […]
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, Edyll Ismail, Xavier Samuel, Chris Pang, Dennis Haysbert, Thaneth Warakulnukroh | Written by Mark Swift, Damian Shannon | Directed by Sam Raimi Director Sam Raimi makes a welcome return to horror with Send Help, 17 years after his previous foray into the genre with Drag Me To Hell (2009). Co-starring […]
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, Edyll Ismail, Xavier Samuel, Chris Pang, Dennis Haysbert, Thaneth Warakulnukroh | Written by Mark Swift, Damian Shannon | Directed by Sam Raimi It’s a joy to have Sam Raimi back. Amongst his interesting filmography, the most popular works are his iconic trilogies of Spider-Man and The Evil Dead. Following nearly […]
Stars: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yuen, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Kyle Chandler | Written and Directed by Joe Carnahan Matt Damon and Ben Affleck re-team for straight-to-Netflix dirty cop thriller The Rip, written and directed by Joe Carnahan (Narc). Frankly, the fact that the film has gone direct to streaming is an even bigger […]
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Danny Huston, Cara Jade Myers, Graham Greene | Written by Steve Isles, George Mahaffey | Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky When it comes to survival cinema, the genre boasts more than its fair share of unforgettable classics: from The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno to Eight Below and, of course, Cast Away. […]
Stars: Silvia Presente, Kit Esuruoso, Joey Lockhart, Paul David-Gough, Gregory Fung, Samy Elkhatib, Reece Henderson, Tom Stocker, Pippa Winslow, Pat Garrett | Written and Directed by Oliver Cox Lure has a rather simple set-up, as six men are lured (the title was kept simple too) by a woman to a house party. Only when they […]
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Carman Lee, Wyman Wong, Michael Wong, Glen Chin, Moses Chan, Lynne Langdon | Written by Steven E. de Souza | Directed by Tsui Hark From the late 1980s through the early 1990s, few action stars were as popular as Jean-Claude Van Damme. A run of […]
Stars: Virginia Gardner, Mel Jarnson, Mitchell Hope, Ron Smyck, Mia Grunwald, Aliandra Calabrese, Isaac Crawley, Scott James George | Written by Jo-Anne Brechin, Katharine McPhee | Directed by Jo-Anne Brechin When Jaws hit cinemas, it unleashed an entire wave of aquatic imitators, from sharks to piranhas and just about everything in between. Oddly, despite Orca […]
Stars: Johnny Sequoyah, Jess Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Charlie Mann, Tienne Simon, Miguel Torres Umba, Amina Abdi | Written by Johannes Roberts, Ernest Riera | Directed by Johannes Roberts Giving your chimp rabies will NOT turn him into a sadistic ninja… I’d like you to pay close attention to the […]
Stars: Steven Seagal, Erika Eleniak, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Damian Chapa, Troy Jones, David McKnight, Patrick O’Neal, Glenn Morshower, Bernie Casey | Written by J.F. Lawton | Directed by Andrew Davis Controversial actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist and musician Steven Seagal became a bona fide action icon during his peak years, thanks largely to […]
Stars: Jesse Kove, Gail O’Grady, Lorenzo Lamas, David Chokachi, Gina Vitori, Johnny Pacar, Paul Logan, G. Anthony Joseph, Chris Cleveland | Written by Geoff Meed, Kenny Zinn | Directed by Nick Lyon Sometimes, The Asylum really do shoot themselves in the foot — to butcher that particular phrase – by hiding genuinely solid B-movies behind […]
Stars: Mark Fischbach, Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock, Elle LaMont, Seán McLoughlin | Written and Directed by Mark Fischbach Released in 2022, Iron Lung is a short video game made by David Szymanski, which offers a minimalist approach to a submarine-set horror. The tale has been adapted for the big screen by first-time filmmaker […]
Stars: Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa, Jacob Batalon, Morena Baccarin, Temuera Morrison, Roimata Fox, Frankie Adams, Claes Bang | Written by Jonathan Tropper | Directed by Angel Manuel Soto Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa team up for The Wrecking Crew, an entertaining, Hawaii-set buddy-cop thriller, directed by Angel Manuel Soto (Blue Beetle). With terrific action sequences, […]
