Tom Jolliffe takes in a Brandon Lee triple bill of Showdown in Little Tokyo, Rapid Fire and The Crow… The Lee legacy on cinema is no small matter. Bruce Lee of course remains more iconic and more influential, having changed the face of martial arts on screen. That should not take away the fact that […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – New Order
New Order, 2020. Written and directed by Michel Franco. Starring Naian González Norvind, Diego Boneta, and Mónica del Carmen. SYNOPSIS: A high-society wedding is interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests. In a feat as impressive as it is maddening, Michel Franco’s (After Lucia, Chronic) new film – which scooped Venice’s Grand Jury Prize – just […]
Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell are bare-knuckle boxers in trailer for drama Jungleland
Paramount has released a poster and trailer for the upcoming drama Jungleland. Directed by Max Winkler, the film stars Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell as Stan and Lion, brothers and bareknuckle boxers who are forced to deliver a traveller (Jessica Barden) to pay back a dangerous crime boss (Jonathan Majors), as they journey across the […]
The Ten Best Horror Movies of the 2010s
EJ Moreno on the best horror films of the last decade… While making this list, it dawned on me just how lucky horror fans were this past decade. Between 2010 and 2019, hundreds of genre films made their mark with viewers and shook the industry up. We saw comedy directors turn into masters of the […]
Wendigo horror The Retreat gets a poster, trailer and images
With a little over three weeks to go until its release, a trailer, poster and images have arrived online for the upcoming horror The Retreat. Directed by Bruce Wemple, the film follows Gus, a man fighting for his life as he is tormented by the terrifying Wendigo while backpacking in the Adirondack High Peaks; take […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nomadland
Nomadland, 2020. Co-written and directed by Chloé Zhao. Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, and Bob Wells. SYNOPSIS: Follows a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad. Chloé Zhao’s third feature comfortably catapults her […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Striding Into the Wind
Striding Into the Wind, 2020. Co-written and directed by Shujun Wei. Starring Zhou You, Zheng Yingchen, and Wang Xiaomu. SYNOPSIS: Kun seems to be messing up pretty much everything: his senior year at film school, the job on his friend’s graduation film, and the relationship with his girlfriend. But Kun just acquired the cheapest second-hand car […]
Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up gets all-star cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande and more
Adam McKay is known for having impressive casts in his movies, but this might be his best yet as Netflix and McKay have given the previously cast Jennifer Lawrence quite the all-star group of co-stars for the film Don’t Look Up. Today, we’ve learned that Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, […]
Watch an exclusive clip from romantic drama The Second Sun
Thanks to 1844 Entertainment, we’ve got an exclusive clip from director Jennifer Gelfer’s romantic drama The Second Sun, which is available now on VOD. Take a look at the trailer below, along with the official poster and synopsis… Two lost souls meet one cold night in Post-war Manhattan. Before dawn deep rooted secrets will be […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Zanka Contact
Zanka Contact, 2020. Written and directed by Ismaël El Iraki. Starring Ahmed Hammoud, Khansa Batma, and Saïd Bey. SYNOPSIS: In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. Anyone who’s seen more than a few-dozen films in their life will find plenty familiar about […]
