The cast of the Joker sequel grows by the day, and another actor has joined the twisted musical film.Harry Lawtey (Industry) has signed on to star in Joker: Folie À Deux, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.Todd Phillips returns as director and looks to take the project in a new direction. Deadline notes the film […]
Through Glasses Darkly: Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy
Louis Fletcher revisits Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy…Now available on the horror streaming service Shudder, Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses is a welcome return from the man many thought to have retired. Marking the maestro’s return to the giallo, the genre he pioneered in the 1970s, such an effort inevitably invites comparison with his earlier works, not […]
Movie Review – Decision to Leave (2022)
Decision to Leave, 2022.Written & Directed by Park Chan Wook. Starring Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Lee Jung-hyun, and Go Kyung-pyo.SYNOPSIS:A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains meets the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.Park Chan-wook is one of the most acclaimed directors of the past 20 years. Known […]
Blu-ray Review – A Boy and His Dog (1975)
A Boy and His Dog, 1975.Directed by L.Q. Jones. Starring Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton, Charles McGraw, and Alvy Moore.SYNOPSIS:In a dystopian future, a young man and his telepathic dog roam the wastelands looking for women and food.In the dark and distant future of 2024, the world has seen the devastation of World War […]
58th Chicago International Film Festival Review – The Inspection
The Inspection, 2022.Written and Directed by Elegance Bratton. Starring Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union, Bokeem Woodbine, Raúl Castillo, McCaul Lombardi, Nicholas Logan, Aaron Dominguez, Eman Esfandi, Aubrey Joseph, Andrew Kai, Tyler Merritt, Steve Mokate, Brad Napp, Daniel Williamson, and Wynn Reichert.SYNOPSIS:A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, […]
The Void (2016) – October Horrors 2022
The Void, 2016.Directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie. Starring Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe and Ellen Wong.SYNOPSIS:A group of people find themselves trapped in a hospital by a mysterious group of cultists and nightmarish creatures.Of all the horror sub-genres out there, among the most fascinating and frightening is cosmic horror. Popularised […]
“Reshoot Halloween Ends” is the latest hilarious petition to hit the internet
Earlier this year, Scream took on toxic fandoms. In its usual meta-style, we saw killers obsessed with keeping their beloved franchise pure and course-correcting it to extreme measures, and while this may not be quite as extreme, a new Halloween Ends petition proves that these types of fans are all over the place.While horror is […]
Morgan Freeman investigates another murder in The Minute You Wake Up Dead trailer
Lionsgate has released a trailer, poster and images for director Michael Mailer’s noir thriller The Minute You Wake Up Dead.Starring Cole Hauser, Jaimie Alexander, and Morgan Freeman, the film centres on a shady stockbroker and a shy waitress who may be responsible for a shocking murder in their small town.Fortunately, Morgan Freeman has a tonne […]
Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front gets a new trailer
With just a week to go until All Quiet on the Western Front arrives on Netflix, a new trailer has been released for director Edward Berger’s upcoming adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel.The film follows 17 year old Paul (Felix Kammerer) as his excitement to join the Western Front is quickly shattered by the […]
Christophe Gans will return to the fog to direct a Silent Hill movie sequel
Earlier in year Brotherhood of the Wolf and original Silent Hill director Christophe Gans announced that he had a sequel script written and ready to go, but you did wonder whether, much like the characters trapped in this tiny town of terror, it would ever see the light of day.Fear not, or fear a lot, […]
