Upgrade, 2018. Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Betty Gabriel SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem. There’s a scene in Upgrade […]
Movie Review – Submission (2018)
Submission, 2018. Written and Directed by Richard Levine. Starring Stanley Tucci, Addison Timlin, Janeane Garofalo, Ritchie Coster, Colby Minifie, Jessica Hecht, and Kyra Sedgwick. SYNOPSIS: A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs… or something like that as in […]
SXSW Movie Review – Isle of Dogs (2018)
Isle of Dogs, 2018. Directed by Wes Anderson. Featuring the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, F. Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson, Greta Gerwig, Liev Schreiber, Harvey Keitel, Courtney B. Vance, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Ito, Akira Takayama, Koyu Rankin and Yoko Ono. SYNOPSIS: ISLE OF DOGS […]
Movie Review – The Third Murder (2017)
The Third Murder, 2017. Written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Mikako Ichikawa, and Izumi Matsuoka. SYNOPSIS: A leading attorney takes on the defense of a murder-robbery suspect who was convicted for another murder 30 years ago. The chances of winning the case seem low – the client freely admits his guilt, despite […]
Movie Review – Unsane (2018)
Unsane (2018) Directed by Steven Soderbergh Starring Claire Foy, Juno Temple, Jay Pharoah, Joshua Leonard and Polly McKie. SYNOPSIS: Financial analyst Sawyer (Claire Foy) has just started a job in city where she knows nobody. After a sudden panic attack, she seeks counselling at a local clinic but finds herself admitted as a patient. She […]
Movie Review – As Far as the Eye Can See (2018)
As Far as the Eye Can See, 2018. Directed by David Franklin. Starring Jason London, Danny Mora, Luci Christian, Jenni Tooley, and Gary Teague. SYNOPSIS: Jack Ridge is a former piano prodigy living on a farm he has let go to seed. He’s living in the past, but the future is coming for him. Southern […]
Blu-ray Review – Images (1972)
Images, 1972. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Susannah York, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, and Marcel Bozzuffi. SYNOPSIS: A schizophrenic housewife has visions of different people in her life and starts to kill them off, not being sure if they are real or not. Essentially, Images is a horror film from a director not […]
Second Opinion – Flower (2018)
Flower, 2018. Directed by Max Winkler Starring Zoey Deutch, Joey Morgan, Adam Scott, Tim Heidecker, and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother. Flower is as unstable a ride as many of the characters that inhabit it, so let’s just start at the beginning which sees […]
Movie Review – I Kill Giants (2018)
I Kill Giants, 2018. Directed by Anders Walter. Starring Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Noel Clarke, Rory Jackson, Ciara O’Callaghan, and Jennifer Ehle. SYNOPSIS: Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters. I Kill Giants, while a decent debut full-length feature from director Anders Walter […]
Second Opinion – Tomb Raider (2018)
Tomb Raider, 2018. Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost. SYNOPSIS: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Movies […]
