Starring: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappucino Director: Kevin Phillips When an accident leads to a death, two teen best friends cover it up and find themselves torn apart by paranoia and guilt. This film is really enigmatic. It's a film that you can get to the end of and question what it all means.… Continue reading Super Dark Times (2017)
Tag: thriller
Mandy (2018)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache Director: Panos Cosmatos It's 1983 and lumberjack Red (Cage) and his beloved wife Mandy (Riseborough) live in a cabin-like house in the forest, where she reads fantasy novels and creates artworks. When she's seen by the leader of a religious cult, the couple are attacked, and a violent… Continue reading Mandy (2018)
Classic Movie Of The Week: High Noon (1952)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell Director: Fred Zinneman Marshall Will Kane (Cooper) is a well respected man who has just married Amy (Kelly) and is looking at a comfortable future when he is told that an evil man he put away years ago is heading into town for revenge, and will arrive on… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: High Noon (1952)
Skyscraper (2018)
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Pablo Schreiber Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Will Sawyer (Johnson) is a security expert who moves with his wife Sarah (Campbell) and their twin children to Hong Kong to work on 225 story tower. But things go awry when criminals set a fire in the tower, and try to… Continue reading Skyscraper (2018)
Podcast Time: Tango & Cash with Cinema Bushido!
I joined the lovely guys at Cinema Bushido once again for their movie podcast Cinema Bushido. They cover action and martial arts films, in a fun, irreverent way. This time, we looked at late 80's action classic Tango & Cash, the film that paired Sylvester Stallone with Kurt Russell. If you love action and martial… Continue reading Podcast Time: Tango & Cash with Cinema Bushido!
Classic Movie Of The Week: Our Hospitality (1923)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton Director: Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone The MacKay family decide to send their young child away to safety after another local family swear to kill every last member of their family. The feud is nursed for years in the Appalachian town, but little Willy Mackay grows into a young… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Our Hospitality (1923)
Preview: Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett Director: Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in this sixth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise. He's joined by his IMF team in a race against time to stop a anarchic cell from creating a… Continue reading Preview: Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Podcast: Damien Riley and Beverly Hills Cop
Damien Riley of Talking Stars fame has started his own spin-off podcast. When he asked me to make a guest appearance, I suggested we talk about the Eddie Murphy classic franchise of films, Beverly Hills Cop. It's a fun and relaxed look at the three films that make up this trilogy of classic 80's action… Continue reading Podcast: Damien Riley and Beverly Hills Cop
Preview: The Secret Of Marrowbone (2017)
Starring: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg Director: Sergio G Sanchez When four siblings return home to America in the 60's with their ailing mother, they try to leave the past behind them. But following their mother's death, Jack, the eldest, has promised to wait to report her demise til his… Continue reading Preview: The Secret Of Marrowbone (2017)
Creep (2014)
Starring: Mark Duplass, Partrick Brice Director: Patrick Brice Videographer Aaron (Brice) answers an ad on Craislist to video the last messages of a dying man, Josef (Duplass), at his cabin in a remote location. But something is very off about the Josef and his story. Initially just really awkward, things soon take a dark turn.… Continue reading Creep (2014)