The Wailing, 2016.Directed and written by Hong-jin Na Starring Do Wan Kwak, Kim Hwan-hee, Jung-min Hwang, Jun Kunimura, Woo-hee Chun.SYNOPSIS :A stranger arrives at a rural village in Korea and immediately unsettling events begin to take place. A policeman is drawn in to the mystery and must confront all sorts of demons in order to save […]
Comic Book Review – Atomic Robo and the Ring of Fire #1
Robert W Monk review Atomic Robo and the Ring of Fire #1…Atomic Robo disappeared two years ago when Tesladyne was invaded by Majestic 12 and transformed into ULTRA, a task force leveraging the U.S. surveillance and military industries against scientific pursuits deemed to be hazardous. Now, the few remaining Action Scientists finally have a plan […]
DVD Review – Experimenter (2015)
Experimenter, 2015.Written and directed by Michael Almereyda. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Anthony Edwards, John Palladino, Jim Gaffigan, Harley Ware, John Leguizamo and Anton Yelchin.SYNOPSIS:In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.Michael Almereyda’s biopic about Stanley Milgram’s controversial psychological experiments is […]
DVD Review – My Nazi Legacy (2015)
My Nazi Legacy, 2015.Directed by David Evans. Featuring Philippe Sands, Horst von Wachter and Niklas Frank.SYNOPSIS:A human-rights lawyer conducts conversations with two men whose fathers were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII as Nazi Governors and consultants to Adolf Hitler himself. This captivating documentary film traces the personal histories of two men whose […]
Blu-ray Review – The Killing (1956)
The Killing, 1956.Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C.Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia and Timothy Carey.SYNOPSIS:Seven men are intent on executing the perfect robbery and taking a racetrack for two million dollars. But nothing goes quite as planned…Kubrick’s third feature was something of a make […]
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 tribulations of the immigration […]
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 sister-in-law arrive over […]
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 shown on screen, Andrew […]
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 way of Linklater’s Slacker, […]
Blu-ray Review – Possum (2018)
Possum, 2018.Directed by Matthew Holness Starring Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Simon Bubb, and Andy BlitheSYNOPSIS: 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. The writer director, […]
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