The Boondock Saints, 1999. Directed by Troy Duffy. Starring Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly, and Dot-Marie Jones. SYNOPSIS: A pair of Catholic brothers turn vigilante and go on the rampage in Boston’s criminal underworld. With a production history as troubled as some of the characters in the movie, […]
Book Review – After Atlas by Emma Newman
Michelle Herbert reviews After Atlas by Emma Newman… After Atlas is set in the same world as Planetfall, and is a partial sequel to that novel, as it set forty years after Atlas left Earth. I feel that you could read either book first as the characters in both books do not really cross over. After […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Sonsabitches’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Preacher season 3… Extracting a soul appears to be easy involving wheels, levers and foot pumps coupled with numerous lengths of rubber tubing and eager operatives in tow to hold down poor unfortunates. Throw in the needles, screaming, unsterilized insertion of blunt metals through paper-thin skin and you […]
Second Opinion – The First Purge (2018)
The First Purge, 2018. Directed by Gerard McMurray. Starring Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Christian Robinson, Mugga, Patch Darragh, Luna Lauren Velez, Kristen Solis, Rotini Paul, Mo McRae, Jermel Howard, Siya, Steve Harris, Mitchell Edwards, D.K. Bowser, Derek Basco, Maria Rivera, Chyna Layne, Ian Blackman, Melonie Diaz, Naszir Nance, and Marisa Tomei. SYNOPSIS: After […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘Angelville’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Preacher season 3… Coated in a sheen of Louisiana voodoo, seeping sultry from pores coated in Southern sweat and welcoming us back with plantation melodrama, this third go round shows potential. Penned by Breaking Bad alumni Sam Catlin and featuring Michael Slovis behind the camera, ‘Angelville’ cross cuts […]
Movie Review – Super Troopers 2 (2018)
Super Troopers 2, 2018. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar. Starring Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Paul Sotor, Kevin Heffernan, Brian Cox, Marisa Coughlan, Bruce McCulloch, Lynda Carter, Rob Lowe, Hayes MacArthur, Tyler Labine, and Will Sasso. SYNOPSIS: When a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a […]
DVD Review – I Kill Giants (2017)
I Kill Giants, 2017. Directed by Anders Walter. Starring Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots and Jennifer Ehle. SYNOPSIS: Strange things lurk off shore in this small coastal town. Barbara (Madison Wolfe) is the self-appointed guardian keeping mile denizens at bay. Isolated, precocious and uniquely qualified, only the arrival of Sophia (Sydney Wade) […]
Blu-ray Review – The Endless (2017)
The Endless, 2017. Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead. Starring Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Lew Temple, Emily Montague, James Jordan, Tate Ellington, and Kira Powell. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers return to the cult they fled a decade ago, only to discover that perhaps there was something in what they believed. Movies about cults […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Toby Chu discusses giving musical life to Pixar short Bao
Composer Toby Chu discusses Disney-Pixar’s Bao… Breaking box office records, Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 premiered to $182.7 million at the domestic box office, soaring past the record for biggest animated film opening in box office history by nearly $50 million, which was previously held by Finding Dory. While that may not be a surprise to forecasters […]
DVD Review – Jackals (2017)
Jackals, 2017. Directed by Kevin Greutert. Starring Stephen Dorff, Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger, Chelsea Ricketts, Nick Roux, and Jason Scott Jenkins. SYNOPSIS: A family tries to deprogram their estranged son from a satanic cult while the disgruntled cultists surround the family’s property. Home invasion movies have become increasingly popular over the past decade since […]