Reviews

Fantasia Festival Review: Energetic Kung Fu Comedy THE PAPER TIGERS Is Great Fun

There’s a serious amount of fun to be had with Tran Quoc Bao’s The Paper Tigers. The writer/director/editor delivers a hugely energetic and entertaining comedy which is a joy to watch from beginning to end. The film transcends its low [...]

August 31, 2020

Review: THE HORROR CROWD Talks To The Filmmakers Behind The Horror Genre

Horror is a genre which shines a light on our darkest fears and nightmares. Horror films delve deep into human nature, taking the worst of humanity and bringing it to the fore. It also rips the most terrifying concepts from our imaginations and [...]

August 30, 2020

Fantasia Festival Review: THE MORTUARY COLLECTION Is Ghoulishly Macabre

The Mortuary Collection is an entertaining and darkly comic horror film from writer/director Ryan Spindell. A variation on the Tales From The Crypt type anthology, the film stars Clancy Brown as Montgomery Dark, the ghoulish Mortician in the New [...]

August 29, 2020

Review: DEEP BLUE SEA 3 Is A Tremendously Entertaining Piece Of Schlock Cinema

Director Renny Harlin‘s 1999 killer shark actioner Deep Blue Sea is a stone cold cult classic. Harlin played-up the film’s far-fetched moments and the Thomas Jane/LL Cool J/Samuel L. Jackson starrer wore its ridiculous B-movie tropes with [...]

August 29, 2020

Fantasia Festival Review: WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS

A film about reflections and perceptions, Takeshi Kushida’s Woman of the Photographs is a film which illustrates how photography and photographs help craft who we are to ourselves and to others. The Japanese film is a slow moving psychological [...]

August 26, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE BLACK CAT & THE RAVEN Starring Bela Lugosi

After the success of Dracula in 1931, Bel Lugosi took the lead in a trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for Universal Pictures. The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Black Cat and The Raven feature Lugosi at his best and the latter two also feature [...]

August 26, 2020

Review: Russell Crowe Chews The Scenery In The Gritty & Violent UNHINGED

The first wide release in the United States (and pretty much the rest of the world), since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, director Derek Borte’s Unhinged arrives with much more fanfare than usually befits this type of film. A B-movie with an A-list [...]

August 20, 2020

Review: Serial Killer Thriller THE SILENCING Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Annabelle Wallis Is A Total Bore

A film with a lot of wasted potential, The Silencing is a serial killer thriller which is nothing to shout about. Stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis try their best with what they have, but even they seem bored by the time the film’s [...]

August 15, 2020

Review: Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE: BLACK-AND-WHITE EDITION

From its Palme d’Or winning debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 to it’s triumph at the 2020 Academy Awards where it took home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film, Bong [...]

August 9, 2020

Review: Gordon’s Alive! The Brilliant FLASH GORDON Gets A 40th Anniversary Re-Release

Director Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon is a wonderfully executed piece of science fiction cinema. It’s a film which has become a much deserved cult classic since its original release way back in 1980. It will forever be known for a variety of [...]

August 7, 2020

Review: Luke Goss & Val Kilmer Star In The Entertaining Thriller PAYDIRT

There’s a lot of fun to be had with writer/director Christian Sesma’s Paydirt. Headlined by Luke Goss and Val Kilmer, Sesma’s thriller plays like Ocean’s 11 filtered through a Quentin Tarantino prism. It’s not breaking any new ground, but [...]

August 4, 2020

Review: Star Emilie Piponnier Makes French Language Drama ALICE Worth Watching

Australian writer/director Josephine Mackerras makes her directorial debut with the French-language drama, Alice. It’s a well composed piece which features a great central performance from actress Emilie Piponnier but the overall trajectory of the [...]

July 24, 2020

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