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 […]
A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting is perfect for Halloween | Video Review
A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting, 2020. Directed by Rachel Talalay. Starring Tamara Smart, Oona Laurence, Indya Moore, and Tom Felton. As someone who appreciates family-friendly horror films, our critic EJ Moreno offers up a unique take on A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting. This Rachel Talalay-directed film makes for a perfect Halloween viewing with […]
Horror film Blind gets a new trailer
Ahead of its release next month, we’ve got a new trailer, poster and images for the horror film Blind. Directed by Marcel Walz, Blind follows Faye (Sarah French), a former actress who has lost her vision during botched laser eye surgery, and begins to get an uneasy feeling that she may not be alone in […]
October Horrors 2020 – Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust, 1980. Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen and Luca Barbaeschi. SYNOPSIS: After a documentary crew go missing in the Amazon Jungle, an anthropologist ventures into the jungle to search for them. What he discovers is far more horrifying than he could have possibly imagined. Found […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Limbo
Limbo, 2020. Written and directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, and Sidse Babett Knudsen. SYNOPSIS: Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. There’s an understandable seriousness and sobriety to most movies chronicling the asylum […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with […]
Movie Review – The Intruder (2020)
The Intruder, 2020. Directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Cecilia Roth, Mirta Busnelli and Agustín Rittano. SYNOPSIS: A dubbing artist and singer is plagued by troubling noises and an unravelling mental state in the wake of trauma. There’s an interesting little sub-genre of horror movies and dark thrillers set […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Another Round
Another Round, 2020 Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang. SYNOPSIS: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. ‘It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to […]
Danny Trejo battles human-pig hybrid super soldiers in Bullets of Justice red band trailer
Coinciding with its digital release, a poster and red band trailer have arrived online for the upcoming action horror Bullets for Justice which follows a group of resistance fighters trying to save humanity from the ‘muzzles’, human-pig hybrid super soldiers created by the American government; check them out here… “In the post-apocalyptic aftermath of World […]
Trailer for supernatural horror Haunting of the Mary Celeste
A poster and trailer have arrived online for the supernatural horror Haunting of the Mary Celeste which stars Emily Swallow as a researcher who has a theory that the mysterious disappearance of a crew from a merchant ship has connections with the Mary Celeste; take a look here… Emily Swallow (“Mandalorian,” “Supernatural”) stars as Rachel, […]
