James Turner reviews Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers #1… In the wake of a newly discovered alien threat, president Nixon calls on the one man he knows can stop the cosmic blood-suckers: Elvis Presley. Bubba Ho-Tep and The Cosmic Blood-Suckers (yes, that’s really its name) is a prequel to the cult classic film Bubba […]
Why Avengers: Infinity War is Everything Star Wars: The Last Jedi Wanted to Be
James Turner looks at the similarities and differences between the two biggest blockbusters of the last twelve months… This piece makes references to the plot of Avengers: Infinity War, but there are no substantial spoilers. For those who didn’t read my review of The Last Jedi, let’s just say I was less than impressed by it. […]
Movie Review – The Blessed Ones (2016)
The Blessed Ones, 2016. Written and Directed by Patrick O’Bell. Starring Dave Vescio, Andy Gates, and Tamzin Brown. SYNOPSIS: The Blessed Ones shadows a tightly knit cult hiding in a remote desert enclave as they prepare for the impending apocalypse. Two dissenters try to escape through the vast desert wasteland as the cult embarks on a […]
Movie Review – Love and Saucers (2017)
Love and Saucers, 2017. Directed by Brad Abrahams. SYNOPSIS: The story of David Huggins, an unassuming 72 year-old who claims to have had a lifetime of encounters with otherworldly beings – including an inter-species romance with an E.T. woman (with whom he lost his virginity to), and chronicled it all in surreal impressionist paintings. Are his […]
Movie Review – Canaries (2017)
Canaries, 2017. Written and Directed by Peter Stray. Starring Craig Russell, Sheena Bhattessa, Robert Pugh, Kai Owen, Richard Mylan, and Hannah Danie. SYNOPSIS: The first wave of an alien invasion coincides with a New Year’s Eve party in the Welsh Valleys. Canaries opens with of montage that spans over several decades, wherein we see partial […]
Second Opinion – Ghost Stories (2017)
Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, and Alex Lawther. SYNOPSIS: Arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman embarks upon a terror-filled quest when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of inexplicable ‘hauntings’. I have a real soft spot for anthology horror […]
Movie Review – Sweet Country (2017)
Sweet Country, 2017. Directed by Warwick Thornton. Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Hamilton Morris, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, and Ewen Leslie. SYNOPSIS: Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defence and goes […]
Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)
The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett. SYNOPSIS: At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. The […]
Movie Review – Loveless (2017)
Loveless, 2017. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov. SYNOPSIS: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. Loveless issues two stark warnings to its audience: don’t let your resentment for another render you without love […]
Movie Review – Phantom Thread (2017)
Phantom Thread, 2017. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Camilla Rutherford, and Brian Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: Set in 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover. Phantom Thread has me torn. […]
