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The Last Days On Mars: In space no one can hear you snore
The Last Days On Mars is a well acted bore fest that features decent set design, wonky villains and zero joy. The survival horror film doesn’t push for Apollo 18 oddness, Europa Report’s intelligence...
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Sorcerer: A Forgotten Classic Finally Gets the Blu-ray Release It Deserves
Sorcerer is a lost classic that pushes the boundary of cinema and holds up well because of its practical effects, timely plot and singular artistic vision. The 1977 remake of the 1951 film Wages of...
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Grand Piano: A Fun Thriller That Needs a Larger Audience
Grand Piano tells the age-old story of a man playing piano while another man is pointing a gun at his head. This thriller is a fun experiment that is executed to perfection. It is an original idea...
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Ravenous: A Quirky and Darkly Hilarious Horror Film About Cannibalism That...
Ravenous is an odd little film. Dismissed upon initial release in 1999 it has picked up a cult following that has made the recent Blu-ray release an event. The film is characterized by a quirky...
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Enemy: Multiplicity, Chaos and Spiders
Chaos is order undeciphered Enemy is a headscratcher in all the right ways and leaves you stuck in your chair while you absorb the previous 90 minutes. The slow-burning film reminded me of Shane...
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The Raid 2: Gareth Evans and His Action Opus
The Raid 2 numbs you with awesomeness and proves that Gareth Evans is a director to watch. His ambition is seemingly endless and in Indonesia he has the resources to do what he wants. The Raid 2 is a...
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Under the Skin: A Haunting and Sensory Blasting Experience
Under the Skin is a mesmerizing film that captures Scotland’s dreary beauty while blasting us with the most sensory film of the year. I love that there is zero backstory or expository hand holding. It...
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Filth: James McAvoy and the Truthful Title
There hasn’t been a more self-explanatory title since Snakes on a Plane. Filth is a nasty little film that is based on a wonderfully nasty Irvine Welsh book. It features drug use, nudity, murder,...
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A Long Way Down: Chemistry Trumps All
A Long Way Down is the happiest film about potential suicide you will ever watch. It is tonally odd and bounces all over the place yet remains likable due to the chemistry of the cast. As the...
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Alan Partridge: The Original Alpha Papa
Alan Partridge! Who the f- Alan Partridge! You know who I am, I’ve not been off TV for that long! Identify yourself. Alan Partridge has been around a long time. 20 years ago the comedy classic Knowing...
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Locke: Tom Hardy and the Open Road
I purposefully didn’t watch any trailers for Locke. I knew it featured Tom Hardy in a car for 90 minutes and I didn’t want the film sullied by too much information via trailers or interviews. The...
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Cuban Fury: Long Legs, Flat Fanta, Can’t Lose
The wheels started rolling for Cuban Fury one fateful night when Nick Frost drunkenly sent an email to a producer friend of his. She loved the idea and the film received the green light to start. What...
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Rogue: The Australian Crocodile Film That Gets it Right
You may find it odd that I am writing about a tiny Australian Crocodile film that was released unceremoniously in 2008. It has bothered me for some time that the neat little film was buried by the...
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Blue Ruin: Tension Perfected
Blue Ruin is a force of nature. Told on a micro-budget the revenge thriller is nothing like all the other revenge thrillers you’ve seen. Blue Ruin plays like a massive stress bomb that comes out of...
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They Came Together: Wet Hot New York Romance
They Came Together tells the story of tiny scarves, word jazz and a man named Eggbert. It is a send up of romantic comedies that is told perfectly straight while being incredibly bonkers. The biggest...
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The Rover: Pearce, Pattinson, Trains and Automobiles
Director David Michod knows how to create memorable characters. His depraved worlds breed creatures who are insanely magnetic. Ben Mendelsohn stole the show in Michod’s Animal Kingdom. His character...
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The Signal: The Start Of Something Good
The Signal does a lot with little. It is a visual marvel that plays like Safety Not Guaranteed met Moon and they teamed up with District 9, Chronicle, The Matrix and Dark City. Regardless of the...
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A Field In England: Is This Heaven? No, It’s a Field
About an hour into A Field In England we get this exchange between a dying man and his friend: Friend: When you get to the alehouse, see a way to get a message to my wife. Jacob: Anything, Friend....
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Deliver Us from Evil and the Inevitable Exorcism
Eric Bana is a fantastic actor who deserves better material than Deliver Us From Evil. The idea of a real life NYPD Sergeant tracking down evil with a priest is fantastic on paper. However, instead of...
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Stretch: An Eventual Cult Classic With a Confident Personality
Stretch will be an eventual cult classic. The film may have missed a theatrical release but it will garner a following via its bonkers plot, memorable performances and a scene involving death via...
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