Christopher Nolan’s Tenet opened in international markets this weekend and despite the ongoing global health crisis, the film generated a surprisingly large $53 million debut.According to Variety, Tenet had the strongest start in the United Kingdom, where it made $7.1 million followed by France ($6.7 million), Korea ($5.1 million) and Germany ($4.2 million). The film launched in […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – A Ghost Waits
A Ghost Waits, 2020.Written and directed by Adam Stovall. Starring MacLeod Andrews, Natalie Walker, Sydney Vollmer, and Amanda Miller.SYNOPSIS:A man’s job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.The haunted house movie gets a spirited update in […]
Movie Review – Superman: Man Of Tomorrow (2020)
Superman: Man of Tomorrow, 2020.Directed by Chris Palmer. Featuring the voice talents of Darren Criss, Alexandra Daddario, Zachary Quinto, Ike Amadi, Ryan Hurst, Brett Dalton, Neil Flynn and Bellamy Young.SYNOPSIS:Daily Planet intern Clark Kent takes learning-on-the-job to new extremes when Lobo and Parasite set their sights on Metropolis.Although it’s been some time since we’ve seen […]
X-Men spinoff The New Mutants opens with $7 million at the U.S. box office
It’s not often that Hollywood finds cause to celebrate a $7 million opening topping the U.S. box office, but in these crazy times that’s the case this past weekend with the long-delayed X-Men spinoff The New Mutants.The long-delayed Fox superhero movie, which was originally slated to open back in 2018, grossed $7 million across the […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Aquaslash
Aquaslash, 2019.Co-written and directed by Renaud Gauthier. Starring Nicolas Fontaine, Brittany Drisdelle, Madelline Harvey, Paul Zinno, Nick Walker, and Chip Chuipka.SYNOPSIS:Terror awaits a group of high school graduates when a psychopath uses the unstoppable speed and turns of a water slide to his murderous advantage.A movie called Aquaslash invites certain expectations, primarily that said movie will […]
Movie Review – Critical Thinking (2020)
Critical Thinking, 2020.Directed by John Leguizamo. Starring John Leguizamo, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams, Corwin C. Tuggles, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Angel Bismark Curiel, Will Hochman, Jeffry Batista, Zora Casebere, Ramses Jimenez, Sydney Arroyo, Brandon Somers, and Isaac Beverly.SYNOPSIS:The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2020 Review – Two Heads Creek
Two Heads Creek, 2019.Directed by Jesse O’Brien. Starring Kerry Armstrong, Kathryn Wilder, Gary Sweet, and Stephen Hunter.SYNOPSIS:A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.The typically scuzzy […]
Movie Review – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020.Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Ashlyn Alessi, Abby Quinn, Hadley Robinson, Dj Nino Carta, Teddy Coluca, Jason Ralph, and Guy Boyd.SYNOPSIS:A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is thinking of ending things on the way to meet her boyfriend’s parents.Charlie Kaufman has […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – The Honeymoon Phase
The Honeymoon Phase, 2019.Directed by Phillip G. Carroll Jr. Starring François Chau, Tara Westwood, Ione Butler, and Mike Sutton.SYNOPSIS:Struggling young lovers, Tom and Eve, must endure a 30-day scientific experiment. Room, board, $50,000, and a month alone together in research facility housing. What could possibly go wrong?Relationship satire can be ripe material for a gamy […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Playhouse
Playhouse, 2020.Written and directed by Toby Watts and Fionn Watts. Starring Julie Higginson, James Rottger, Helen Mackay, and William Holstead.SYNOPSIS:In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.Ghosts of the past are thoroughly exorcised in this chilly chamber piece which […]
