The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up, 2018. Directed by Steve Sprung. SYNOPSIS : A visual essay/documentary film about a 1970’s arms company going bust where threatened workers came up with dynamic new products, including heat pumps, wind turbines and an energy saving house. The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up is an […]
Movie Review – What Keeps You Alive (2018)
What Keeps You Alive, 2018. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, and Martha MacIsaac. SYNOPSIS : Jackie and Jules attempt to celebrate their one year anniversary in the wild woods and mountainous countryside of Jackie’s family holiday home. Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen) are a happily married couple keen to […]
Movie Review – The Basement (2018)
The Basement, 2018. Directed by Brian M. Conley and Nathan Ives. Starring Mischa Barton, Jackson Davis, Cayleb Long, Bailey Anne Borders, Tracie Thoms, and Sarah Nicklin. SYNOPSIS : A man is abducted and wakes up in a basement. His captor is a psychopathic serial killer who forces his victims to take part in a deranged therapy […]
Movie Review – What Still Remains (2018)
What Still Remains, 2018. Directed by Josh Mendoza. Starring Lulu Antariksa, Colin O’Donaghue, Mimi Rogers, Jeff Kober, Dohn Norwood, Roshon Fegan SYNOPSIS : Against a post-apocalyptic backdrop, a young woman must decide who to trust in order to survive. Oh, the apocalypse. Edging ever closer it seems, and in the thriller What Still Remains it’s there in […]
Movie Review – Eaten by Lions (2018)
Eaten by Lions, 2017. Directed by Jason Wingard. Starring Jack Carroll, Antonio Aakeel, Asim Chaudhry, Johnny Vegas. SYNOPSIS: Omar and Pete are half-brothers raised by their grandmother after their mother and Pete’s father die in the freak accident of the film’s title. After finding a letter talking about his blood father, Omar decides to take […]
Movie Review – The Ciambra (2017)
The Ciambra, 2017. Written and Directed by Jonas Carpignano. Starring Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, and Damiano Amato. SYNOPSIS: In a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. Amidst a backdrop of tensions between the local Italians, recent arrivals from African countries and his fellow Romani, Pio must decide […]
Movie Review – Dead List (2018)
Dead List, 2018. Directed by Victor Mathieu, Ivan Asen and Holden Andrews. Starring Matt Fowler, Nick Bandera, Holden Andrews, Rob Healy, Josh Eichenbaum, Eric Pierce, and Susan Stangl. SYNOPSIS: A group of actors all vying for the same role start to go missing in mysterious ways. An occult book detailing their names acts as check list for the […]
Movie Review – Island Zero (2017)
Island Zero, 2017. Directed by Josh Gerritsen. Starring Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Terri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas, and Elaine Landry. SYNOPSIS : A remote island off the coast of Maine, USA, finds itself cut off from the mainland when communications fail, and the ferry fails to appear. Then people start to disappear too, and the […]
Sci-Fi London 2018 Review – Precognition (2018)
Precognition, 2018. Directed and written by Luke Tedder. Starring Adam J. Bernard, Vanessa Russell, and Jessica Andrews. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, a man experiences terrifying visions of a past he can’t remember. His partner, who secretly works for a company that manipulates memory, attempts to uncover the mysteries surrounding them. Exploring a nefarious world where […]
Movie Review – Ghost Stories (2017)
Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, and Alex Lawther. SYNOPSIS: An academic and arch-sceptic is drawn into a quest to disprove the reality of three inexplicable cases of supernatural activity. Adapted from a successful stage play that first toured the UK in 2010, Ghost Stories is […]