Killer Party, 2018. Directed and Written by Chris von Hoffman. Starring Sam Strike, Virginia Gardner, Brandon Micheal Hall, Erin Moriarty, Kian Lawley, Julian McMahon, Robin Tunney, and Lance Reddick. SYNOPSIS: Three young thieves infiltrate a mansion dinner party secretly hosted by a group of recovering murderers for the social elite. A fun slasher horror going […]
Movie Review – Starfish (2018)
Starfish, 2018. Directed by A.T. White. Starring Virginia Gardner, Christina Masterson, and Eric Beecroft. SYNOPSIS: A unique, intimate and honest portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend. That just happens to take place on the day the world ends as we know it. What happens when your grief and anxiety […]
Movie Review – Happy Cleaners (2019)
Happy Cleaners, 2019. Directed by Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee. Starring Yun Jeong, Donald Chang, Yeena Sung, Hwang-hwa Lim, Charles Ryu, Dax Richardson, Jamie Jungah Kim. SYNOPSIS: The Choi family struggle to keep their business and family relationships together in the face of modern American challenges. A sensitively drawn account of the trials and […]
Movie Review – I Trapped the Devil (2019)
I Trapped the Devil, 2019. Written and Directed by Josh Lobo. Starring AJ Bowen, Susan Burke, Jocelin Donahue, Scott Poythress, Chris Sullivan, Rowan Russell, and Josh Marrott. SYNOPSIS: A disturbed man descends into paranoia after he believes he has trapped the devil in his basement. The claustrophobic fear is only intensified when his brother and […]
Movie Review – Hail Satan? (2019)
Hail Satan?, 2019. Directed by Penny Lane. Featuring Lucien Greaves, Jex Blackmore, Nicholas Crowe, Malcolm Jarry, Michael Wiener. SYNOPSIS: A feature documentary looking at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple. The division between church and state, and religion and politics, is seen by many as a […]
Sarasota Film Festival Review – Feral (2018)
Feral, 2018. Directed by Andrew Wonder. Starring Annapurna Sriram, Doug Drucker, Kevin Hoffman, Jonathan Rentler, Annie Henk. SYNOPSIS: A young woman living in the tunnels underneath Manhattan struggles to overcome her past. Desperate to survive, she meets other city dwellers fending for their own lives. An eye-opening study of a side of New York rarely […]
Movie Review – Relaxer (2018)
Relaxer, 2018. Directed and Written by Joel Potrykus. Starring Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian, Andre Hyland. SYNOPSIS: With the new millennium fast approaching, a young man is dared by his brother to complete a seemingly impossible video-game quest without leaving his sofa. Billed in the press notes as a combination of Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel by […]
Blu-ray Review – Possum (2018)
Possum, 2018. Directed by Matthew Holness Starring Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Simon Bubb, and Andy Blithe SYNOPSIS: A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront the troubling memories that have tormented him his entire life. Anyone expecting any sort of light relief from Matthew Holness’s debut feature will be sorely disappointed. […]
Movie Review – The Wedding Guest (2018)
The Wedding Guest, 2018 Written and Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, and Jim Sarbh. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious man travels from the UK to Pakistan on a top-secret mission to attend a wedding – armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Michael Winterbottom delivers a tense thriller with The Wedding Guest. Destined in […]
Movie Review – Rendel (2017)
Rendel, 2017. Directed by Jesse Haaja. Starring Kristofer Gummerus, Rami Rusinen, Rene Korppila, and Johnny Vivash. SYNOPSIS: A pharmaceutical company introduces a new untested vaccine into a sick city. It has devastating consequences for many, including a mysterious costumed character out for revenge. Rendel is the the first superhero movie made in Finland. This is […]