Stars: Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Cam Gigandet, Marshawn “Beastmode” Lynch, Sean Astin | Written by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, Luke Passmore | Directed by Jonathan Eusebio Ke Huy Quan turns Jackie Chan in the action comedy Love Hurts, from producer David Leitch (John Wick), whose production company 87North […]
Stars: Colin Cunningham, Jessica Staples, James Morris, Sean D. Hunter, David E. McMahon, Charla Bocchicchio, William McAllister, Jake Watters, Hailey Nebeker | Written by James Morris, Michael Ballif | Directed by James Morris He Never Left opens with text that sets up the film’s mythology – a killer, known to locals as “Pale Face,” went […]
Stars: Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Dane Witherspoon, Bernard Kates, Holly Fields, John Mooney, Anne Betancourt | Written by Charles Band, Jackson Barr | Directed by Peter Manoogian Released during the high point in Full Moon’s relationship with Paramount Pictures, Seedpeople was heavily advertised on its original UK release back in 1992, with ads appearing in […]
Stars: Pete Davidson, Lil Rel Howery, Isla Fisher, Poppy Liu, Stephen Root, Billy Boyd, Ricky Gervais | Written and Directed by Peter Hastings Written and directed by Peter Hastings, this delightfully manic animated comedy is based on the best-selling series of children’s graphic novels by Dav Pilkey. As such, the film is a spin-off, of […]
Forget what you know about indie filmmaking. This July, Cliff Twemlow, Britain’s forgotten king of blood, sweat, and videotape, is storming back into your living room, fists flying and synths blazing. Severin Films, the cult saviours behind some of the nastiest deep cuts on the planet, are blasting ten of Twemlow’s legendary low-budget brawlers onto […]
Stars: Ken Trujillo, Katerina Eichenberger, Emma Anne Wedemeyer, Chris Genovese | Written and Directed by D.W. Medoff I Will Never Leave You Alone, directed by D.W. Medoff, is a haunting and emotionally intense horror film that made its premiere at this year’s FrightFest. Though it fits comfortably within the horror genre, the film distinguishes itself […]
Stars: Emily Rose Mogilner, Connor Powles, Bruno Cryan, Karolina Ugrenyuk, Fyn Phoenixx, Danielle Ronald, Steven Murphy, Kelly Rian Sanson | Written by Harry Boxley | Directed by William Stead The stream of public domain horror continues, this time it’s E.C. Segar’s iconic sailor Popeye who gets turned into a killer. The script by Harry Boxley, […]
Stars: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Darya Ekamasova, Yura Borisov, Paul Weissman, Lindsey Normington, Emily Weider, Luna Sofía Miranda, Vincent Radwinsky, Brittney Rodriguez, Sophia Carnabuci | Written and Directed by Sean Baker Since releasing his first feature in 2000, writer/director Sean Baker has built himself a name as an exciting voice in independent cinema. As his works […]
Stars: David Pareja, Estefanía de los Santos, Josep Riera, Claudia Riera, Eduardo Antuña | Written by Caye Casas, Cristina Borobia | Directed by Caye Casas I had read quite a lot of comments about The Coffee Table before I had seen it, but pretty much all of them said something along the lines of “watch […]
Stars: Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola | Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold | Directed by Brady Corbet Dark screens are broken by the reading of a letter, and a scramble of people across the screen, all of them fighting to see their […]
Stars: Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Nick Moran, Dominique Tipper, Dean Jagger, Patrick Bergin | Written and Directed by Jesse V. Johnson Opening with the well-worn quote “One riot. One ranger.” from which it takes its title, One Ranger the new film from action specialist Jesse V. Johnson (Chief of Station, Accident Man) quickly segues into […]
Stars: Martin Portlock, Megan Placito, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Kit Green, Kelly Rian Sanson, Chrissie Wunna, Nicola Wright | Written by Scott Chambers, Rhys Frake-Waterfield | Directed by Scott Chambers The most recent entry in the so-called Poohniverse, and the first one not to feature Pooh, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, has arrived. With Winnie the Pooh: Blood […]
Stars: John Phillip Law, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Anthony Dawson, Jose Torres, Franco Balducci | Written by Luciano Vincenzoni | Directed by Giulio Petroni Every so often, a film gallops out of the dusty plains of cinema history and plants its boots squarely on your chest. Death Rides a Horse, directed by […]
Stars: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Sam Jaeger, Matilda Firth, Benedict Hardie, Ben Prendergast, Zac Chandler | Written by Leigh Whannell, Corbett Tuck | Directed by Leigh Whannell Writer-director Leigh Whannell follows 2020’s horror hit The Invisible Man with another revamp of a classic Universal monster movie. Unfortunately, it’s not quite a howling success – it […]
Stars: Michelle Dockery, Topher Grace, Mark Wahlberg, Leah Remini, Paul Ben-Victor | Written by Jared Rosenberg | Directed by Mel Gibson Mel Gibson returns to the director’s chair for the impressively economical single-location thriller Flight Risk. It’s undeniably trashy, thanks to an egregiously over-the-top performance by top-billed Mark Wahlberg, but it’s also surprisingly enjoyable. In […]
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Sophie Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Esther McGregor, Vaughn Reilly, Victor Slezak | Written and Directed by Halina Reijn Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson star in this erotic office drama from writer-director Halina Reijn’s follow-up to last year’s horror favourite Bodies Bodies Bodies. Provocative and crackling with tension, Babygirl explores ideas of […]
Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Saïd Taghmaoui, Eric Cantona, Tchéky Karyo | Written by Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell Matt Stuecken | Directed by John Woo By all accounts, revisiting a classic is a gamble, especially when that classic is 1989’s The Killer, the film that not only defined John Woo’s career […]
Stars: Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Idris Elba, Keanu Reeves, Krysten Ritter, Lee Majdoub, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Alyla Browne, James Wolk | Written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller, John Whittington | Directed by Jeff Fowler The speedy blue hedgehog returns for a third instalment in SEGA’s Sonic […]
Stars: Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins, Kim McKamy (aka Ashlyn Gere) | Written by David DeCoteau, Buford Hauser | Directed by David DeCoteau Creepozoids is one of those cult science fiction horror films that lingered on the fringes of my childhood memory, largely due to its frequent appearances on Stephen King’s […]
Stars: Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney | Written and Directed by Robert Eggers F.W. Murnau’s silent vampire classic Nosferatu receives its second remake, courtesy of Robert Eggers, acclaimed director of The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman. As with its predecessors (including Werner Herzog’s […]
Stars: John Cassavetes, Duncan McIntosh, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes, Erin Noble, Harvey Atkin, Harry Ditson | Written by Ray Russell, George Franklin | Directed by John Hough There are films that scare you in the moment, and then there are films that unnerve you in ways you can’t quite name. The Incubus, a 1981 […]
