Scales, 2019. Directed by Shahad Ameen. Starring Baseema Hajjar, Yaqoub Alfarhan and Ashraf Barhom. SYNOPSIS: In an isolated island community, each family must sacrifice one daughter to the sea creatures who surround it. But one young girl has been spared that fate by her father, making her an outcast in the community. A few years […]
Movie Review – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019. Directed by Vince Gilligan. Starring Aaron Paul, Matt Jones, Charles Baker, Jonathan Banks, and Larry Hankin. SYNOPSIS: Picking up after the events of Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman is on the run. How do you follow up Breaking Bad, a show that is consistently named as one of the […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 11 – Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist, 1982. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunn, Oliver Robins, Heather O’ Rourke, Beatrice Straight, and Zelda Rubinstein. SYNOPSIS: A family finds their seemingly normal home invaded by a malicious demonic entity that kidnaps their young daughter. After the yesterday’s arthouse fare lets change gears, grab some popcorn and […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Earthquake Bird
Earthquake Bird, 2019. Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, and Naoki Kobayashi. SYNOPSIS: A young woman living in Tokyo becomes the prime suspect in a horrific murder when her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle. Acclaimed filmmaker Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, Colette) tries his hand […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review — The Antenna
The Antenna, 2019. Directed by Orçun Behram. Starring Ihsan Önal, Gül Arici, Elif Cakman. SYNOPSIS: As an ominous midnight government bulletin draws nearer, a tower block and its inhabitants come under siege from a mysterious, deadly liquid seeping from the building’s antenna. A clunky mix-match of familiar genre tropes and far-from-subtle social commentary permeates Turkish […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi. SYNOPSIS: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The latest film from the industrious […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Burning Cane
Burning Cane, 2019. Directed by Phillip Youmans. Starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, and Dominique McClellan. SYNOPSIS: Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son. Phillip Youmans delivers one of the most precocious feature debuts in recent memory with Burning Cane, a film […]
Movie Review – Rewind (2019)
Rewind, 2019. Directed by Sasha Neulinger. SYNOPSIS: A debut filmmaker recounts his childhood trauma that exposed a dark family secret. As much as it is a documentary of the most hard-hitting variety, Rewind is an exercise in extreme courage. For first-time filmmaker Sasha Neulinger, retracing the steps of a childhood marred by years of harrowing […]
Comic Book Review – Transformers: Galaxies #1
Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Galaxies #1… IDW’s Transformers series expands with the first issue of Transformers: Galaxies, a spin-off focusing on some other bots, both well-known and not, in the new continuity Brian Ruckley has set in pre-war Cybertron. For the first arc of the new series, Tyler Bleszinski explores the origins of the Constructicons and their transformation […]
Comic Book Review – Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1
Calum Petrie reviews Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1… A terrible time in human history has been re-imagined, retold and revisited in this strange yet refreshing tale from Boom! Studios. The story of Herring, an operative working in East Berlin, Strange Skies Over East Berlin explores the human misery and oppression of the living situation […]
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