Paddington 2, 2017.Directed by Paul King. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris and the voice of Ben Whishaw.SYNOPSIS:Now happily living with the Brown family in London, Paddington realises his beloved Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday is approaching and goes looking for the perfect present. When he finds it, it’s […]
Movie Review – Thelma (2017)
Thelma, 2017.Directed by Joachim Trier. Starring Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelson, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, and Grethe Eltervag.SYNOPSIS:Newly arrived at college, Thelma finds it hard to settle in: her parents are constantly on the phone and she’s not making any friends. After suffering a mysterious seizure in the library, she becomes close to one of […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 30 – Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Maximum Overdrive, 1986.Directed by Stephen King. Starring Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington and Yeardley Smith.SYNOPSIS:After radiation from a passing comet envelops the Earth, humanity is forced to contend with a violent uprising of machinery, with trucks leading the charge. In the midst of this mechanised apocalypse, a group of survivors finds themselves trapped in […]
Blu-ray Review – The Villainess (2017)
The Villainess, 2017.Directed by Byung-gil Jung. Starring Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Jun Sung, and Seo-hyeong Kim.SYNOPSIS:A female assassin seeks revenge on the man that killed her father, unaware of the consequences that await her.Opening with possibly the greatest five minutes of first-person action ever filmed, The Villainess follows in the tradition of recent high-octane Asian […]
Blu-ray Review – Willard/Ben Limited Edition Box Set
Willard/Ben Limited Edition Box SetDirected by Daniel Mann/Phil Karlson. Starring Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante, Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O’Connell, and Meredith Baxter.SYNOPSIS:Box set containing two cult classics about killer rats from the early 1970s.Something of a ‘lost’ cult film from 1971, Willard is often cited as a forerunner for all […]
DVD Review – Deliver Us (Liberami) (2016)
Deliver Us (Liberami), 2016.Directed by Federica Di Giacomo.SYNOPSIS:An examination of the life of Franciscan priest Father Cataldo Migliazzo as he conducts the rituals of exorcism on members of his congregation.Religion has been one of the great constants in our increasingly crazy world. With every massive advance in the fields of science, technology or medicine, religion […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 29 – The Fly (1986)
The Fly, 1986.Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and John Getz.SYNOPSIS:Seth Brundle is an eccentric but brilliant scientist who has invented a pair of device that could change the world; teleportation pods. Deciding to test his inventions by teleporting himself, Brundle fails to notice the presence of small fly that has joined […]
Movie Review – Wonderstruck (2017)
Wonderstruck, 2017.Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Jaden Michael, Julianne Moore, Tom Noonan, James Urbaniak, Morgan Turner, Cory Michael Smith, and Michelle Williams.SYNOPSIS:The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 28 – Lifeforce (1985)
Lifeforce, 1985.Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Melinda May, and Patrick Stewart.SYNOPSIS:A joint UK-US space mission aboard the HMS Churchill takes a strange turn when the crew stumbles upon an enormous craft hidden in the tail of Halley’s Comet, with three seemingly humanoid bodies entombed within. Contact with Earth is […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 25 – In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
In the Mouth of Madness, 1995.Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, and Charlton Heston.SYNOPSIS:The world is literally going crazy for the work of horror novelist Sutter Cane who has mysteriously vanished. With the release of his newest novel rapidly approaching, Cane’s publishers recruit insurance investigator John Trent to […]
