When The ABCs of Death first came out last year, I was curious to see what an ambitious horror anthology would look like. I don’t watch many short films but was eager to see how different genre directors from...
We’ve all heard the stories of old buildings that have been abandoned somewhere near where we live and the mystery around them. The idea there is a huge empty playground for us to go and cause havoc in because it may...
I have to admit something, I think I may have ADD. When I was a kid, I could barely fall asleep at bedtime and this has carried over into adulthood, leading to my aversion to long running times with movies. I honestly...
One of the few films I got to see at this year’s NYFF was Bennett Miller’s (Moneyball, Capote) Foxcatcher, a biographical sports drama that’s incredibly eerie and wonderfully gripping. The film was one of my most anticipated features of...
You know the old saying, so bad it’s good? Well the thing about Danny Dyer‘s new film, Bloodshot is that it’s just so bad, it’s still bad. It’s a shame really, because it all starts out so promisingly and...
Last Thursday, Lionsgate hosted an advanced screening of John Wick at New York Comic Con and while I wasn’t able to attend, I was able to recruit a friend of mine, Dan Rotenberg, to go see the film and...
It’s tough out there for female directors in the entertainment industry. It certainly has to be even tougher when you’re a foreign female writer/director trying to get a horror film to break through the clutter and reach the ever...
Remember when you were about 10 and you would play detective, convinced there was a huge mystery to be solved where you lived, well it seems our protagonist Elfie Hopkins (Jaime Winstone) never really grew out of it. Off...
What exactly is Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) from director Alejandro González Iñárritu? Is it a parody of superhero films? Is it a study of the mental state of a successful Hollywood actor? Is it about the stress...
We’ve all got those DVDs hidden away deep within our collection. We never knew why we bought them and we’ve never really given them a second glance since. Well for me, that DVD was El Chupacabra, a film I...
