System Crasher, 2019. Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, and Gabriela Maria Schmeide. SYNOPSIS: On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair. The feature debut of writer-director Nora Fingscheidt dares to tackle a shockingly under-explored issue in cinema centered around troubled youths; uncontrollable anger, […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 5 – The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Blair Witch Project, 1999. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a group of documentary film-makers ventured into the woods of the Black Hills in Maryland to investigate the mysterious local legend of the Blair Witch. They subsequently vanished leaving behind only […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Movie Review – The Report
The Report, 2019. Directed by Scott Z. Burns Starring Adam Driver, Annette Benning, Jon Hamm, Corey Stoll, Linda Powell, Maura Tierney, Michael C. Hall, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Tim Blake Nelson, Ted Levine, Scott Shepherd, Matthew Rhys, Lucas Dixon, and Sarah Goldberg. SYNOPSIS: When dedicated, idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) is assigned the task […]
Transform and Roll Out: Celebrating 35 Years of Transformers Generation 1
Ricky Church celebrates 35 years of Transformers… For children of the 1980s, there was an abundance of great cartoons that became beloved franchises, some of which continue to this day such as G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Voltron. One franchise which remains popular revolves around two groups of robotic aliens locked in an eternal war […]
James Bond returns with first poster for No Time To Die
In celebration of Global James Bond Day, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have unveiled the first poster for No Time To Die, 007’s 25th official big screen adventure and Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as Ian Fleming’s super spy; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Daniel Craig wraps filming on 25th Bond […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The King
The King, 2019. Directed by David Michôd. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomasin McKenzie, Andrew Havill, Edward Ashley and Tara Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Little Monsters
Little Monsters, 2019. Directed by Abe Forsythe. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, Alexander England, Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Henry Nixon, Felix Williamson, Nadia Townsend, and Marshall Napier. SYNOPSIS: When perennial man-child and failed musician Dave (Alexander England) decides to use his nephew’s petting-zoo field-trip as a way of getting close to his teacher (Lupita Nyong’o), […]
Comic Book Preview – Hellmouth #1
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel event Hellmouth gets underway this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here; check it out… THE FIRST EVENT OF THE ALL-NEW BUFFY UNIVERSE STARTS HERE! Buffy Summers, the Slayer, has one job—keep the forces of hell from coming to […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 2019. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman. SYNOPSIS: The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The Lighthouse is about as boldly entrancing a second feature as one could imagine from any filmmaker, let alone Robert […]
Haunted bed horror The Dwelling gets a poster and trailer
A frightening futon is unleashed this this November as Uncork’d Entertainment releases Black Fawn Films’ latest offering, the haunted bed movie The Dwelling; check out a poster, synopsis and trailer for the film here… SEE ALSO: Beware the chair in trailer for horror Killer Sofa Four people find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed […]
