Gaspar Noe fans have a double dose to look forward to this May (if “look forward to” is the right expression)… Not only do we have the release of the dementia drama Vortex, but Arrow Video and Yelloe Veil Pictures are also bringing the controversial filmmaker’s 2019 experimental film Lux Æterna to UK and US […]
Maika Monroe stars in creepy trailer for thriller Watcher
IFC Film has released a poster and trailer for director Chloe Okuno’s thriller Watcher which follows Julia (Maika Monroe) as she relocates to Romania with her husband (Karl Glusman) for his new job, only to develop an intense feeling that she’s being watched by a man from an adjacent building. In WATCHER, Julia (Maika Monroe) […]
Maika Monroe is being followed again in the trailer for Watcher
Following her star-making turns in It Follows and The Guest, Maika Monroe is back being pursued by strange forces in the trailer for Shudder and IFC Films gaslighting horror Watcher. Telling a Rear Window-like story of a woman who’s adamant she’s being watched by a man in the building opposite to her, Watcher has just […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022 Review – Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please & Give Me Pity!
Please Baby Please Directed by Amanda Kramer Starring Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling, Demi Moore, Ryan Simpkins, Karl Glusman and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Give Me Pity! Directed by Amanda Kramer Starring Sophie von Haselberg Films directed by Amanda Kramer can often be summed up with a few generalising statements. The message of the piece is clear […]
Extreme Cinema – Gaspar Noe’s Love
Love, 2015. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman and Klara Kristin. SYNOPSIS: Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbour into their bed. With the release […]
Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston star in new trailer for crime thriller Above Suspicion
Lionsgate has shared a poster and trailer for the US release of Phillip Noyce’s crime thriller Above Suspicion. Based on Joe Sharkey’s nonfiction book of the same name, the film stars Emilia Clarke as Susan, a young woman desperate to escape her life of crime that is recruited as an informant by FBI Agent Mark […]
Movie Review – Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Nocturnal Animals, 2016. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney. Ellie Bamber, Karl Glusman, India Menuez, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Sheen. SYNOPSIS: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a […]
Movie Review – Greyhound (2020)
Greyhound, 2020. Directed by Aaron Schneider. Starring Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Lee Norris, Karl Glusman, Tom Brittney, Alex Kramer, Rob Morgan, Devin Druid, and Elisabeth Shue. SYNOPSIS: Early in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy captain must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolfpacks. On one hand, Greyhound provides […]
Movie Review – Wounds (2019)
Wounds, 2019. Directed by Babak Anvari. Starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Christin Rankins, and Brad William Henke. SYNOPSIS: Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar. Wounds is two-thirds of a moral deterioration haunter that […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 6 – The Neon Demon (2016)
The Neon Demon, 2016. Directed Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Desmond Harrington, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her parents, Jesse moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a model, with her youth and beauty unleashing intense dark feelings of jealousy and […]
