As I say in the header, James Badge Dale deserves a huge amount of the credit for David Prior’s The Empty Man being as good as it is. He’s not only charismatic, but the type of actor that seems to vanish into a role, as opposed to being of the preening, attention-grabbing variety. Though the […]
I received an invite from Dread Central to catch an early release of Alex McAulay’s Don’t Tell A Soul, which I went into it blind. I’m not sure why I did though I’m really glad that I did because after having seen it, if someone called it a “masterpiece” I could understand where they were […]
By my reckoning the best sort of movie is one that takes you entirely by surprise. The type of movie you go into not knowing a thing (or relatively little) about to discover a really awesome experience. And that’s what Daniel Isn’t Real is. The movie revolves around a young person, Luke (Miles Robbins, the […]
Considering the disaster of a year we’re currently enduring I didn’t imagine I want to see – much less enjoy – a movie about a comet slamming into the planet – though could it make things any worse? Judging from Ric Roman Waugh’s Greenland, the answer is “Yes. Yes it could.” That being said I […]
I tend to dislike reboots with a passion because – more often than not – they tend to either be cynical money grabs or retreads of what we’ve already seen. In other words, typically wastes of time. For instance the reboot of Total Recall (2012) wasn’t terrible but the original, directed by Paul Verhoeven (Robocop), […]
Stuart Gordon’s Castle Freak is not The Outsider – the story by H.P. Lovecraft’s short story that it’s based upon – though it is interesting in it’s own right. It takes the essential essence of Lovecraft’s story – a being separate from humanity due to his alienness (it’s always a “he” with Lovecraft) – a […]
The vampire myth may have began it’s ascent into the public eye with Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897 though his novel is believed to be based upon an actual person, Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler (1431-1467) – for his bloodthirstiness toward his enemies. He tended to impale them on stakes – who […]
Josh Boone’s The New Mutants may have had a horrific, bloody path to cinemas but that has little to do with the movie itself, which is…okay. The story opens with Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt, who incidentally happens to look just like Rose Salazar from Battle Angel Alita minus the anime-style eyes) who’s sleeping when a […]
Dave Franco’s – the brother of James – feature debut is an auspicious horror movie (Kinda, as far as the horror is concerned? I’ll go into that a bit deeper in a moment) called The Rental. What’s so impressive about his movie is how well it’s shot. It has a distinct visual sense as well […]
Stardust appears to chronicle the period of 1972-1974, when David Bowie assumed the persona of Ziggy Stardust, which considering how theatrical he was throughout that period seems particularly cinematic. Though for a moment let’s go to me growing up in, where it was not uncommon to see posters for Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to […]
