Border, 2018. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petrén, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen, and Matti Boustedt. SYNOPSIS: A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation, which will call into question her entire existence. Border opens with Tina, […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Suspiria
Suspiria, 2018. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth, Elena Fokina, and Chloë Grace Moretz. SYNOPSIS: Against the backdrop of political turmoil in 70s Berlin, a world renowned dance company can be found within a stones throw from the wall. It’s run by the notorious Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, and Joana Ribeiro. SYNOPSIS: Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from […]
Arrow Season 7 Episode 1 Review – ‘Inmate 4587’
Jessie Robertson reviews the season 7 premiere of Arrow… We’re back with the one that started it all! I would have had no idea 7 years later, Arrow would still be going and to some degree, still trying to tell new stories (kind of.) The new format is below, we’re going positive and negative, and […]
54th Chicago International Film Festival Review – What They Had (2018)
What They Had, 2018. Written and directed by Elizabeth Chomko. Starring Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, Taissa Farmiga, and Josh Lucas SYNOPSIS: WHAT THEY HAD centers on a family in crisis. Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to Chicago at her brother’s (Michael Shannon) urging to deal with her ailing mother (Blythe Danner) and […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 16: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Michael Currie, and Ralph Strait. SYNOPSIS: Halloween is fast approaching when Dr Daniel Challis is witnesses a mysterious murder/suicide at the hospital in which he works. Following the victims’ final words, Challis and Ellie Grimbridge, the […]
Beyond Fest 2018 Review – Luz
Luz, 2018. Directed by Tilman Singer. Starring Luana Velis, Nadja Stübiger, Julia Riedler, Lilli Lorenz, Jan Bluthardt, and Johannes Benecke. SYNOPSIS: Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves. For the most […]
Movie Review – Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Fahrenheit 11/9, 2018. Directed by Michael Moore. SYNOPSIS: Travelling across America, Moore interviews citizens under the Trump administration, to get a sense of the social, economic and political impact of Trump’s victory, as well as an in-depth look at the media, the Electoral College, the government agenda and his hometown of Flint, Michigan. In rhyme […]
Comic Book Review – Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader’s Castle #1
Ricky Church reviews Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader’s Castle #1… With Halloween coming up on us, IDW has taken Star Wars somewhere it has rarely gone before: the horror genre. Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader’s Castle #1 tells a light horror story on – appropriately enough – the Ghost while another unlucky crew stumbles upon Mustafar and […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 15: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1974. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen. SYNOPSIS: While on a road trip through Texas, a group of friend stumble upon an isolated farmhouse that houses a horrific secret. The teens soon find themselves at the mercy of a […]