Midnighters, 2018.Directed by Julius Ramsay, Starring Alex Essoe, Dylan McTee, Ward Horton, and Perla Haney-Jardine.SYNOPSIS:Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a […]
Blu-ray Review – Der Todesking (1990)
Der Todesking, 1990.Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause, Susanne Betz, Eva-Maria Kurz, and Andreas Doehler.SYNOPSIS:Seven short stories based around the notion of suicide, all from the director of Nekromantik.If ever there was a call for a movie about suicide – and why wouldn’t there be? – then it seems only […]
Second Opinion – Game Night (2018)
Game Night, 2018.Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Danny Huston, and Chelsea Peretti.SYNOPSIS:A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights finds themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.Game Night (written and directed […]
Movie Review – Annihilation (2018)
Annihilation, 2018.Written and Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, David Gyasi, and Oscar Isaac.SYNOPSIS:Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X – a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the […]
Second Opinion – Dark River (2017)
Dark River, 2017.Directed by Clio Barnard. Starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean, and Dean Andrews.SYNOPSIS:Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to the family farm after the death of her father. It’s 15 years since she left, the farm is falling apart and brother Joe (Mark Stanley) is barely managing to keep it going. But when Alice […]
Movie Review – November (2017)
November, 2017Directed by Rainer Sarnet Starring Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Katariina Unt, Arvo Kukumägi, Dieter Laser, Taavi EelmaaSYNOPSIS:In 19th Century Estonia, peasant girl Liina longs for village boy Hans, who is in turn infatuated with a visiting German baroness. The two attempt to win their heart’s desire amidst a backdrop of spirits, werewolves, plagues, and the devil himself.Rainer Sarnet’s beautifully […]
Blu-ray Review – Once Were Warriors (1994)
Once Were Warriors, 1994.Directed by Lee Tamahori. Starring Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Taungaroa Emile, Cliff Curtis, and Julian Arahanga.SYNOPSIS:The mother of a New Zealand Maori family struggles to keep her family together as her violent husband and wayward children seem to pull apart.Controversial upon its original release and still packing a punch today, […]
Movie Review – I, Tonya (2017)
I, Tonya, 2017.Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan, Paul Walter Hauser, Caitlin Carver, Bobby Cannavale, and Julianne Nicholson.SYNOPSIS:The true story of Tonya Harding, who was the world’s best female figure skater despite a deprived background. She found her career derailed after she was implicated in a brutal assault on one […]
Movie Review – Agatha Christie’s Crooked House (2017)
Crooked House, 2017.Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Starring Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Max Irons, Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks, Stefanie Martini, Julian Sands, Honor Kneafsey, Christian McKay, and Amanda Abbington.SYNOPSIS:In Agatha Christie’s most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather’s murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.We all know […]
Movie Review – Dark River (2018)
Dark River, 2018.Written and directed by Clio Barnard. Starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean.SYNOPSIS:After the death of their father, two siblings engage in a power struggle for control of the dilapidated farm their parent left behind.The first two features from Yorkshire-born filmmaker Clio Barnard marked her out as a real talent to watch […]
