Gunpowder Milkshake, 2021.Directed by Navot Papushado. Starring Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, Freya Allan, Chloe Coleman, Ralph Ineson, Samuel Anderson, Michael Smiley, and Adam Nagaitis.SYNOPSIS:Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them.Gunpowder Milkshake is an adrenaline injection of feminist-driven action living up […]
Blu-ray Review – Belzebuth (2017)
Belzebuth, 2017.Directed by Emilio Portes. Starring Joaquin Cosio, Tobin Bell, Tate Ellington, and Alondra Benitez.SYNOPSIS:A grieving detective investigates several massacres involving children that all seem to be linked by an excommunicated priest.Within the first 10 minutes of Mexican supernatural horror Belzebuth there is a brutal murder scene so dark and grim that you cannot believe […]
New images from Night of the Animated Dead
Ahead of its digital release next week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released four new images from Night of the Animated Dead (which, as you may guess from the title, is an animated remake of George A. Romero’s zombie classic Night of the Living Dead), featuring Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps) as Barbara, Dule Hill (Psych) […]
First trailer for sci-fi romance Needle in a Timestack
Lionsgate has debuted the first trailer for writer-director John Ridley’s sci-fi romance Needle in a Timestack. Based on Robert Silverberg’s short story of the same name, the film focuses on couple Nick (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Janine (Cynthia Erivo) as they find their marriage at risk when Janine’s ex (Orlando Bloom) warps time, affecting the […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Survivor
The Survivor, 2021.Directed by Barry Levinson. Starring Ben Foster, Vicky Krieps, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito, Dar Zuzovsky, and Saro Emirze.SYNOPSIS:Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Zalava
Zalava, 2021.Co-written and directed by Arsalan Amiri. Starring Navid Pourfaraj, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Baset Rezaei, Fereydoun Hamedi, and Shaho Rostami.SYNOPSIS:Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist.Exorcism movies are a dime-a-dozen, and so this new riff from Arsalan Amiri (Villa […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Charlotte
Charlotte, 2021.Directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana. Starring Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Henry Czerny, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Sophie Okonedo, and Mark Strong.SYNOPSIS:An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon living in the south of France between 1941 and 1943.Tacky thought it might seem to decry the well-trod storytelling and aesthetic […]
DASHCAM: The Future of Horror is Here! | TIFF 2021 Video Review
EJ Moreno with a video review of Rob Savage’s DASHCAM…Toronto International Film Festival premiered one of the year’s most interesting horror films with DASHCAM. Director Rob Savage returns after his breakout hit, 2020’s Host, with a new found-footage romp from Blumhouse.Critic EJ Moreno breaks down why this is one of his favorite films of TIFF […]
Movie Review – Mandibles (2021)
Mandibles, 2021.Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Bruno Lochet, Coralie Russier, Roméo Elvis, Raphaël Quenard, Philippe Dusseau, Jean-Paul Solal, and Jézabel Marques.SYNOPSIS:Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it.Mandibles is an […]
First look images from Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley
With the first trailer set to drop this Thursday, Searchlight Pictures has released the first images from Guillermo del Toro’s noir thriller Nightmare Alley featuring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, and Toni Collette; check them out here…In NIGHTMARE ALLEY, an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a […]
