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 […]
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 […]
Christopher Nolan’s new WWII movie lands at Universal
We all know Christopher Nolan is obsessed with time, and he has wasted none in rushing to end last week’s discourse about where his next blockbuster would land, opting to swap his long-standing relationship with Warner Bros by taking his WWII movie to Universal. After speculation that the Tenet filmmaker was touting his next film […]
It’s kill or be killed in trailer for action horror Ouija Japan
Ahead of its release this October, a poster, trailer and images have been released for writer-director Masaya Kato’s action horror Ouija Japan that follows Karen, an American housewife living in Japan when peer pressure forces her to play Kokkuri-san, which leads the friends being forced to fight each other in a deadly battle royal when […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Marvel’s Eternals images offer new look at the MCU’s next superhero team
With Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings now in the rear-view mirror, attention is quickly turning to the next instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and thanks to Total Film we’ve now got three new images from the Chloe Zhao-directed Eternals, offering a new look at Ikaris (Richard Madden), Sersi (Gemma Chan), Kingo […]
