If It Were Love, 2020.Directed by Patric Chiha.SYNOPSIS:Documentary exploring the process of constructing a dance piece inspired by 1990s rave culture.Dance is inherently cinematic. In fact, the widescreen delight of elaborate bodily contortions has featured in a number of movies at this year’s LFF, including the booze-soaked Danish drama Another Round and Steve McQueen’s brilliantly […]
Blu-ray Review – 976-EVIL (1988)
976-EVIL, 1988.Directed by Robert Englund. Starring Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O’Bryan, Jim Metzler, J.J. Cohen, Robert Picardo, and Lezlie Dean.SYNOPSIS:A bullied teenager finds the Devil’s phone number and gets some help in sorting out his problems.It’s that time of year again when Eureka Entertainment delve deep into the vault of 1980s cult classics to dig up […]
Movie Review – A Common Crime (2020)
A Common Crime, 2020.Directed by Francisco Márquez. Starring Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez and Eliot Otazo.SYNOPSIS:A woman is tormented by guilt when she comes to believe that her actions contributed to someone being killed.Genre fans would be forgiven for getting excited during the opening moments of A Common Crime. The movie rolls its opening credits over […]
Batman: Death in the Family clip pits Robin against Two-Face
Coinciding with its digital release, another new clip has arrived online for the DC animated interactive feature Batman: A Death in the Family which sees Robin taking on Two-Face; check it out here, courtesy of IGN…Produced, directed and written by Brandon Vietti, Batman: Death in the Family offers an inventive take on the long-demanded story. […]
George Clooney to adapt John Grisham’s Calico Joe
Variety is reporting that George Clooney has signed on to produce and potentially direct a feature film adaptation of the John Grisham novel Calico Joe.Published in 2012, Calico Joe tells the story of a promising baseball player who is put into a coma for three decades after being hit by a pitch. It was partly […]
Movie Review – Body of Water (2020)
Body of Water, 2020.Written and directed by Lucy Brydon. Starring Siân Brooke, Amanda Burton, Fabienne Piolini-Castle, Nick Blood and Kazia Pelka.SYNOPSIS:A mother suffering from anorexia struggles to repair the relationship with her estranged teenage daughter.The poignancy of writer/director Lucy Brydon’s debut feature unfurls with a potent, twofold timeliness. Body of Water, a taut, quietly powerful […]
Jai Courtney talks The Suicide Squad and The Flash
During an interview with Collider to promote his new film Honest Thief, actor Jai Courtney has been speaking about his impending DC Extended Universe return as Captain Boomerang in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, and how the film will differ from his first outing in David Ayer’s 2016 supervillain team-up Suicide Squad. “It’s a big-ass […]
October Horrors 2020 – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992.Directed by David Lynch. Starring Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Issak, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Wise and Kyle MacLachlan.SYNOPSIS:In the town of Twin Peaks, prom queen Laura Palmer struggles through a troubled life with sex and drugs, all the while attempting to uncover the identity of the […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival – Bad Tales
Bad Tales, 2020.Directed by the D’Innocenzo brothers. Starring Elio Germano, Max Malatesta, Gabriel Montesi, Cristina Pellegrino, Giulia Melillo, Justin Korovkin, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Tommaso Di Cola, Ileana D’Ambra and Laura Borgioli.SYNOPSIS:A series of families living in or close to Rome intersect as the actions of parents exert a corrupting influence on their children.If parents are messed […]
Movie Review – Cicada (2020)
Cicada, 2020.Directed by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare. Starring Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, Sandra Bauleo, Michael Potts, Jason Greene and Cobie Smulders.SYNOPSIS:A bisexual man swaps casual sex for commitment when he finally meets someone with whom he believes he can truly be himself.If gay people are under-represented on the big screen […]
