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 […]
Movie Review – Videoman (2018)
Videoman, 2018 Directed by Kristian A. Söderström. Starring Stefan Sauk, Lena Nilsson, Morgan Alling, Martin Wallström, Sven Wollter. SYNOPSIS: Two middle-aged 1980’s obsessives begin a relationship, while negotiating personal demons and real life villains. Mixing Italian-style giallo horror with social issue elements, Videoman is a brilliantly imaginative debut feature from Kristian A. Söderström. Regaling in the […]
Movie Review – Donnybrook (2018)
Donnybrook, 2018. Directed by Tim Sutton. Starring Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley, Frank Grillo, Chris Browning, James Badge Dale, and Pat Healy. SYNOPSIS: An ex-marine desperate to provide for his young family is driven through lack of options towards the Donnybrook, an illicit backwards bare-knuckle cage fight with a prize of $100,000. Exploring a dark underworld […]
Movie Review – The Song of Sway Lake (2017)
The Song of Sway Lake, 2017. Director: Ari Gold. Starring: Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, Isabelle McNally, Mary Beth Peil, and Elizabeth Peña. SYNOPSIS : A young jazz obsessive enlists his only friend, a Russian drifter, to help steal a rare vinyl record from his family’s holiday lake house. The Song of Sway Lake is certainly a […]
Movie Review – Rust Creek (2018)
Rust Creek, 2018. Directed by Jen McGowan. Starring Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Sean O’Bryan, Jake Kidwell, Jeremy Glazer, and Daniel R. Hill. SYNOPSIS: A college graduate on her way to a prestigious job interview gets stranded in the remote Kentucky forest. She must use all her wits to survive both the harsh outdoor elements and […]