Thomas Harris chats with filmmaker Mike Leigh… Mike Leigh may be our formative filmmaker. His career has spanned close to fifty years, encompassing the minutiae of interpersonal relationships and tackling epics with that same deft touch. His latest, Peterloo is his most expansive piece; a sprawling epic that, as with his other films, finds the […]
Blu-ray Review – Long Weekend (1978)
Long Weekend, 1978. Directed by Colin Eggleston. Starring John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Mike McEwen, Michael Aitkens, Roy Day, and Sue Kiss von Soly. SYNOPSIS: A feuding couple go on a camping weekend to try and save their marriage and discover that nature can be just as hostile as they are towards each other. One of […]
Solimon Awakening: Exclusive Flickering Myth Set Visit for Awakening Alpha
Dustin Leimgruber reports from the set of Shahin Sean Solimon’s new film Awakening Alpha… Shahin Sean Solimon should be exhausted. Apart from a two hour nap and a bracing dawn swim under an icy downpour, he’s been up all night fine tuning footage from his new movie. Energetic and upbeat, you’d never know he’s running on […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Christian Wibe talks WWE Studios’ The Marine 6: Close Quarters and Netflix’s What Happened to Monday
Composer Christian Wibe has lent his musical expertise to projects such as Dead Snow, Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead and Hellfjord to name a few. More recently he scored Netflix’s dystopian thriller set in the not-so-distant future, What Happened to Monday starring Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe. The film follows a set […]
Dylan O’Brien in talks for post-apocalyptic road move Monster Problems
According to Deadline, The Maze Runner and American Assassin star Dylan O’Brien is in talks to star in Monster Problems from Paramount Players and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps. The project, which has spent several years stuck in development hell, is described as a “post-apocalyptic road movie with heart” and has been likened to a John […]
Movie Review – Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018)
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, 2018. Written and Directed by Gus Van Sant. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Tony Greenhand, Beth Ditto, Carrie Brownstein, Mark Webber, Ronnie Adrian, Kim Gordon, and Udo Kier. SYNOPSIS: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the […]
FrightFest Presents Review – The Dark (2018)
The Dark, 2018. Directed by Justin P. Lange. Starring Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics, and Margarete Tiesel. SYNOPSIS: An undead girl and an abused blind boy hiding in the woods form an unlikely relationship. The influence of Let the Right One In has been reaching far and wide in mainstream horror over the past […]
Book Review – Before Mars by Emma Newman
Michelle Herbert reviews Before Mars by Emma Newman… Before Mars is the third novel in the Planetfall Series, this book is set almost concurrently with the events of After Atlas. I don’t think it will matter if you read either After Atlas before or after Before Mars as they are very different stories, but I […]
Exclusive Interview: Director Jason Reitman discusses The Front Runner
Thomas Harris chats with filmmaker Jason Reitman about his new film The Front Runner… Jason Reitman is a busy man. His previous film, Tully, was only released in May and now he debuts his latest, The Front Runner – his best in years – at the BFI London Film Festival. Yet even having landed only […]
Beyond Fest 2018 Review – Border
Border, 2018. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen, and Matti Boustedt. SYNOPSIS: A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation, which will call into question her entire existence. Border opens with Tina, […]