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 Takashi Miike – “only” […]
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 so studied in its […]
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 abuse will have been […]
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 into […]
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 behind […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith, 2019.Written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe. Starring William Friedkin.SYNOPSIS:A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, Leap of Faith explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.Veteran pop-culture documentarian […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 10 – Don’t Look Now (1973)
Don’t Look Now, 1973.Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Starring Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato and Renato Scarpa.SYNOPSIS:After the death of their daughter, a married couple move to Venice after the husband takes up a job restoring an old cathedral. As they settle into their new home, the couple meets a clairvoyant […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Blackbird
Blackbird, 2019.Directed by Roger Michell Starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Kate Winslett, Rainn Wilson, Mia Wasikowska, Lindsay Duncan, Bex Taylor-Klaus, and Anson Boon.SYNOPSIS:When a terminally ill mother (Susan Sarandon) brings her nearest-and-dearest together for one last time before she dies, it stirs up deep seated emotions within the fractured family.From the off, it’s very clear […]
AEW Dynamite 10/09/19 Results and Review
EJ Moreno on the second episode of AEW Dynamite… The second week of All Elite Wrestling is here, and it’s just as impressive as the premiere. AEW is starting to show its style with hot matches beginning the show and an angle at the end that makes you want next week to be here already […]
Movie Review – Little Monsters (2019)
Little Monsters, 2019.Written and directed by Abe Forsythe. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, Alexander England, Nadia Townsend, Kat Stewart, Diesel La Torraca, and Stephen Peacocke.SYNOPSIS:A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.Watching this Australian rom-zom-com from director Abe Forsythe (Down […]
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