Martin Carr reviews the series premiere of HBO’s Lovecraft Country… This is a show which honestly courts controversy from the opening frame. Fantastical elements clash with trench warfare in an audacious opening gambit, which mixes vibrant imagination with grounded realism. As a masterstroke of dreamscape narrative this statement of intent is merely an indication of […]
Movie Review – Night Hunter (2019)
Night Hunter, 2019. Written and Directed by David Raymond. Starring Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley, Alexandra Daddario, Stanley Tucci, Minka Kelly, Nathan Fillion, Carlyn Burchell, Eliana Jones, Brendan Fletcher, Mpho Koaho, Emma Tremblay, Sara Thompson, Daniela Lavender, and Beverly Ndukwu. SYNOPSIS: A weathered Lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in […]
Movie Review – Lost Transmissions (2020)
Lost Transmissions, 2020. Written and Directed by Katharine O’Brien. Starring Simon Pegg, Juno Temple, Alexandra Daddario, Tao Okamoto, Bria Vinaite, Robert Schwartzman, Jamie Harris, Danny Ramirez, Jacob Loeb, and Rebecca Hazlewood. SYNOPSIS: When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit […]
Movie Review – Sputnik (2020)
Sputnik, 2020 Directed by Egor Abramenko Starring Oksana Akinshina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Anton Vasilyev, and Pavel Ustinov SYNOPSIS: The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. This is not the exact line, but early on during Sputnik (a moderately sized Russian film […]
Movie Review – Project Power (2020)
Project Power, 2020. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Foxx, Dominique Fishback, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker, Courtney B. Vance, Tait Fletcher, Yoshi Sudarso, Allen Maldonado, Jim Klock, Casey Neistat, Azhar Khan, Joseph Poliquin, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Kyanna Simone Simpson, C.J. LeBlanc, Mike Seal, and Machine Gun Kelly. SYNOPSIS: An ex-soldier, a […]
Movie Review – The Bay of Silence (2020)
The Bay of Silence, 2020. Directed by Paula van der Oest. Starring Claes Bang, Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox, Alice Krige, Caroline Goodall, Shalisha James-Davis, Assaad Bouab, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Maroussia Frank, Lilibet Biutanaseva and Litiana Biutanaseva. SYNOPSIS: Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son’s suspected murder, only to discover the devastating […]
Movie Review – Boys State (2020)
Boys State, 2020. Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss. SYNOPSIS: The documentary follows a week-long annual program in which 1,100 Texas high school seniors gather to build their own mock government. Boys State is so far out of my wheelhouse that it took me a bit to get adjusted to this new world. From […]
Movie Review – Project Power (2020)
Project Power, 2020. Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. Starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Machine Gun Kelly, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker, Courtney B. Vance, and Allen Maldonado. SYNOPSIS: When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local […]
Movie Review – Les Misérables (2012)
Les Misérables, 2012. Directed by Tom Hooper. Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen and Samantha Barks. SYNOPSIS: In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean – who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole – agrees to care for factory worker […]
Movie Review – Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Safety Not Guaranteed, 2012. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, Jeff Garlin, Jenica Bergere, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Kristen Bell. SYNOPSIS: Three magazine employees respond to an unusual classified ad from a guy seeking a companion for time travel. The premise of Safety Not Guaranteed is fairly simple […]
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