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Alien abduction thriller Dark Encounter gets a trailer and poster

November 3, 2019 by Amie Cranswick

A new U.S. trailer and poster been released for writer-director Carl Strathie’s alien abduction thriller Dark Encounter which stars Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Vincent Regan, and Alice Lowe; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Read our review of Dark Encounter here A year after the mysterious disappearance of their 8 year-old daughter, grieving Olivia and […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Alice Lowe, Carl Strathie, Dark Encounter, Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Vincent Regan

Movie Review – I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

December 8, 2016 by Freda Cooper

I Am Not a Serial Killer, 2016. Directed by Billy O’Brien Starring Max Records, Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Karl Geary SYNOPSIS: A quiet American town is plagued by a series of gruesome murders.  A troubled local teenager decides to investigate, only to discover that the killer lives among them and is the person least likely to […]

Filed Under: Freda Cooper, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Billy O'Brien, Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Karl Geary, Laura Fraser, Max Records

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Dark Encounter

August 23, 2019 by Shaun Munro

Dark Encounter, 2019. Directed by Carl Strathie. Starring Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Vincent Regan, and Alice Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: Alice Lowe, Carl Strathie, Dark Encounter, Frightfest 2019, Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Vincent Regan

90s-set rave drama Beats gets a new trailer

April 7, 2019 by Amie Cranswick

Ahead of its UK release next month, a trailer has arrived online for the 90s-set rave culture drama Beats. Directed by Brian Welsh, the film stars Cristian Ortega and Lorn Macdonald as friends Johnno and Spanner who decide to spend one last night together at an illegal rave when a move forces them to part […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Amy Mason, beats, Brian Ferguson, Brian Welsh, Cristian Ortega, Gemma McElhinney, Laura Fraser, Lorn Macdonald, Rachel Jackson, Ross Mann

2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Beats

March 4, 2019 by Cameron Frew

Beats, 2019. Directed by Brian Welsh. Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser and Brian Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: It’s Scotland, 1994. Two young friends in West Lothian with a love for techno head for one last night together, before life sends them their separate ways. For all its horrific, stillborn visage and unforgiving portrait of drug culture, Trainspotting […]

Filed Under: Cameron Frew, Festivals, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: beats, Brian Ferguson, Brian Welsh, Cristian Ortega, Glasgow Film Festival, Laura Fraser, Lorn Macdonald

Blu-ray Review – I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

February 20, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

I Am Not a Serial Killer, 2016. Directed by Billy O’Brien. Starring Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Max Records, Karl Geary, Matt Roy, and Molly Gearen. SYNOPSIS: A sociopathic teenager discovers that his elderly neighbour may have something to do with a spate of murders. I Am Not a Serial Killer begins in a not-too-dissimilar way […]

Filed Under: Chris Ward, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Billy O'Brien, Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Karl Geary, Laura Fraser, Matt Roy, Max Records, Molly Gearen

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

October 12, 2016 by Amie Cranswick

I Am Not A Serial Killer, 2016. Directed by Billy O’Brien. Starring Max Records, Christopher Lloyd and Laura Fraser. SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records, Where the Wild Things Are) is not a serial killer—but he has all the makings of one. Keeping his homicidal tendencies and morbid obsessions with death and murder in […]

Filed Under: Festivals, Julia Malahovska, London Film Festival, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: 60th BFI London FIlm Festival, Billy O'Brien, Christopher Lloyd, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Laura Fraser, Max Records

Crackle announces cast for sci-fi thriller In the Cloud

September 25, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Streaming service Crackle has announced that Nora Arnezeder (Mozart in the Jungle), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds), Tomiwa Edun (Bates Motel) and Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad) have been cast in the upcoming sci-fi thriller In the Cloud, which is being directed by Robert Scott Wildes (Poor Boy). In the […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Gabriel Byrne, In the Cloud, Justin Chatwin, Laura Fraser, Nora Arnezeder, Robert Scott Wildes, Tomiwa Edun

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