Following on from his somewhat-infamous performance pieces Shia LaBeouf is now almost 24 hours into his latest fine art instalment: watching every film he’s ever appeared in back-to-back. LaBeouf will be at the Angelika Film Centre in New York working under the hashtag of #ALLMYMOVIES for roughly 72 hours as he watches over two-dozen of his films, starting with his most recent […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Housebound (2014)
Housebound, 2014. Directed by Gerard Johnstone. Starring Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata and Glen-Paul Waru. SYNOPSIS: After being placed under house-arrest due to a string of misbehaviour, troubled teenager Kylie begins to suspect that she may be sharing her home with a supernatural presence. Anything can happen once, twice could be a coincidence, but three […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Starry Eyes (2014)
Starry Eyes, 2014. Directed by Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer Starring Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan SYNOPSIS: Aspiring actress Sarah responds to an intriguing casting call, but soon finds out just how much is expected of her for the role of a lifetime. If you want to make films you go to L.A. If you […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
What We Do In The Shadows, 2014. Directed by Jemaine Clement Starring Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer and Stuart Rutherford SYNOPSIS: A group of vampires invite a New Zealand camera crew into their home where they observe them do everything from feeding on the blood of virgins to deciding who does the dishes. Vampires […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)
Dead Snow 2, 2014. Directed by Tommy Wirkola Starring Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr SYNOPSIS: After encountering a unit of Nazi zombies and barely escaping with his life, a terrified Martin (Vegar Hoel) makes his way back to town, but it’s not long until trouble follows him there. If your film’s pitch ends […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – WolfCop (2014)
WolfCop, 2014. Directed by Lowell Dean. Starring Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio and Jonathan Cherry. SYNOPSIS: As a series of strange and violent events start happening, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned into a werewolf as part of a larger plan, so he investigates with the help of his partner and his friend. […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Coherence (2014)
Coherence, 2014. Directed by James Ward Byrkit. Starring Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling and Nicholas Brendon. SYNOPSIS: Several friends meet for a dinner party on the same night a rare comet is due to pass overhead. When watching an episode of The Twilight Zone half the fun is guessing how it will end; dead the whole time? Aliens […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Life After Beth (2014)
Life After Beth, 2014. Directed by Jeff Baena. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Matthew Gray Gubler and Molly Shannon. SYNOPSIS: A young man’s recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her. It could almost certainly be argued that zombie films […]
Grimmfest 2014 Review – Julia (2014)
Julia, 2014. Directed by Matthew A. Brown. Starring Ashley C. Williams, Tahyna Tozzi, Jack Noseworthy and Ryan Cooper. SYNOPSIS: A neon-noir revenge thriller centering on Julia Shames, who after suffering a brutal trauma, falls prey to an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself. In the vein of infamous rape-revenge fantasies such as I Spit […]
