Freaks, 2019 Written and Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein Starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew, Lexy Kolker, Ava Telek, Aleks Paunovic, Michelle Harrison, and Matty Finochio Synopsis: A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father’s protective and […]
Movie Review – Haunt (2019)
Haunt, 2019. Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Starring Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, Lauryn Alisa McClain, Andrew Caldwell, Shazi Raja, Schuyler Helford, and Phillip Johnson Richardson. SYNOPSIS: On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to […]
Movie Review – Seeds (2019)
Seeds, 2019. Directed by Owen Long. Starring Trevor Long, Andrea Chen, Garr Long, Kevin Breznahan, Chris McGarry, Michelle Liu Coughlin, Adrian Enscoe, and Shannon Hartman. SYNOPSIS: When his increasingly depraved behavior spirals out of control, Marcus retreats to his family home along the New England coast. But instead of finding solace, Marcus is haunted by […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Guest of Honour
Guest of Honour, 2019. Directed by Atom Egoyan Starring David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland, Arsinée Khanjian and Alexandre Bourgeois SYNOPSIS: Jim (Thewlis) is a health inspector whose daughter, Veronica (De Oliveira), has recently been convicted of a crime. Although Jim is certain that she isn’t guilty, his efforts to reduce her […]
Preacher Season 4 Episode 7 Review – ‘Messiahs’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Preacher season 4… There are choices to be made this week which leave no room for grey area. God remains an absentee landlord whilst retribution is personified by a tulip and an angry vampire. Theological discussions underpin an episode which carries a full quota of crazy alongside several […]
Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)
It Chapter Two, 2019. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the […]
Netflix Review – Mindhunter Season 2
Hasitha Fernando reviews the second season of Mindhunter… Ever since I concluded watching season one of Mindhunter, I was fraught with impatience to return to its twisted sepulchral world, populated with depraved serial killers and the heinous deeds they commit. So, after twenty-two painstaking months of waiting and speculating, here we are. And now the […]
Movie Review – Gags The Clown (2019)
Gags The Clown. 2019. Directed by Adam Krause. Starring Lauren Ashley Carter, Tracy Perez, Aaron Christensen, Evan Gamble, Wyatt Kuether, Jake Martin, Michael Gideon Sherry, Squall Charlson, Halley Sharp, and Eric Heuvelman. SYNOPSIS: An unidentified man in Green Bay, WI has captured worldwide attention for roaming the streets dressed as a clown. Many write it […]
Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)
It Chapter Two, 2019. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the […]
Carnival Row Season 1 Finale Review – ‘The Gloaming’
Martin Carr reviews the season 1 finale of Carnival Row… Adapted from a black listed script by Travis Beacham Carnival Row has been expanded from two hours into over eight hours of ornate television. In this finale although the amount of information packed between the civil unrest set pieces is riveting, there is a lot […]