#Screamers, 2018. Directed by Dean Matthew Ronalds. Starring Tom Malloy, Chris Bannow, Abbi Snee, Griffin Matthews, Emanuela Galliussi, and Theodora Miranne. SYNOPSIS: When an internet company decides to investigate a series of ‘Screamer’ videos, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect. #Screamers asks the seemingly impossible – “What about one of […]
Movie Review – Isle Of Dogs (2018)
Isle Of Dogs, 2018. Directed By Wes Anderson. Featuring the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Liev Schreiber, Courtney B. Vance, and Anjelica Huston. SYNOPSIS: […]
Movie Review – Flower (2018)
Flower, 2018. Directed by Max Winkler. Starring Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott, Dylan Gelula, Tim Heidecker, Eric Edelstein, Maya Eshet, Joey Morgan. SYNOPSIS: A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother. Max Winkler’s Flower is unorthodox sibling kinship from a painfully quirky perspective. Breakdowns are festively crass, attitudes unstable […]
Movie Review – Midnighters (2018)
Midnighters. 2018. Directed by Julius Ramsay. Starring Alex Essoe, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dylan McTee, and Ward Horton. SYNOPSIS: Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves […]
Second Opinion – Annihilation (2018)
Annihilation, 2018. Directed by Alex Garland. Starring: Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuva Novotny, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong, and David Gyasi. SYNOPSIS: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don’t apply. Heavens bless a *hard* science fiction mind-meld starring female leads that can sell […]
Movie Review – The Chamber (2016)
The Chamber, 2016. Directed by Ben Parker. Starring Johannes Kuhnke, Charlotte Salt, James McArdle, and Elliot Levey. SYNOPSIS: A three-man Special Ops team on a secret recovery mission and a civilian pilot become trapped underwater in a small claustrophobic submersible craft off the coast of North Korea. Given my immense phobia of drowning and distaste […]
Movie Review – The Cured (2018)
The Cured, 2018. Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham, Hilda Fay, and Paula Malcolmson. SYNOPSIS: A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. The once-infected zombies are discriminated against by society and their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government […]
Movie Review – Game Night (2018)
Game Night, 2018. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Danny Huston, and Chelsea Peretti. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. […]
Movie Review – The Lodgers (2018)
The Lodgers, 2018. Directed by Brian O’Malley. Starring Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, David Bradley, Moe Dunford, Eugene Simon, Deirdre O’Kane, and Roisin Murphy. SYNOPSIS: Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three […]
Second Opinion – Red Sparrow (2018)
Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a […]
