The Pact, 2012. Written and Directed by Nicholas McCarthy. Starring Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Samuel Ball and Mark Steger. SYNOPSIS: Following her mother’s death, a young woman returns to her childhood home and struggles to come to terms with memories of the past, her troubled sister’s disappearance […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Cusp
Cusp, 2021. Directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt. SYNOPSIS: In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer. The first sight in Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt’s documentary Cusp couldn’t more literally visualise its central thematic, observing two young girls hanging out on […]
Movie Review – Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
Anna and the Apocalypse, 2018. Directed by John McPhail. Starring Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Ben Wiggins, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, and Paul Kaye. SYNOPSIS: A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to […]
Movie Review – Miss Bala (2019)
Miss Bala, 2019. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Starring Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Anthony Mackie, Matt Lauria, Cristina Rodlo, Damián Alcázar, José Sefami, Aislinn Derbez, and Ricardo Abarca. SYNOPSIS: Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Life in a Day 2020
Life in a Day 2020, 2021. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. SYNOPSIS: Ten years after 2011’s Life in a Day, award-winning director Kevin Macdonald returns to present the story of another day on Earth: July 25, 2020. Of all the movies about the COVID-19 pandemic released as of late – from exploitative speculative thrillers to a rom-com […]
Movie Review – Bliss (2021)
Bliss, 2021. Written and Directed by Mike Cahill. Starring Salma Hayek, Owen Wilson. Madeline Zima, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Joshua Leonard, Ronny Chieng, Mercy Malick, Nesta Cooper, Steve Zissis, and Bill Nye. SYNOPSIS: A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the […]
American Gods Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Unseen’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of American Gods season 3… Burgeoning relationships between reincarnated cadavers is something that only works in American Gods. That this bond has developed between an undead wife and coin carrying leprechaun is something else entirely. Incorporating flaming biker bars, intentionally naked all Fathers and incarcerated goddesses, it is yet another […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Misha and the Wolves
Misha and the Wolves, 2021. Directed by Sam Hobkinson. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth. Sam Hobkinson’s fascinating documentary Misha and the Wolves turns the notion of the “stranger-than-fiction” story on its head, focusing […]
Movie Review – More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story (2021)
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story, 2021. Directed by Kevin Derek. Featuring Pat Morita, Evelyn Guerrero, Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Martin Kove, Henry Winkler, James Hong, Ron Thomas and Julia Nickson. SYNOPSIS: Noriyuki “Pat” Morita is known by millions as simply Mr Miyagi, his cult character from The Karate Kid series. But there is […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – In the Earth
In the Earth, 2021. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith. SYNOPSIS: As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep into the forest for a routine equipment run. Ben Wheatley is a filmmaker whose prodigious talents are matched only […]
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