Dealing with a deadly ailment and being in the twilight of his criminal career, a father seeks redemption by looking for a daughter he abandoned and, at the same time, finds love. Absolution has an unnamed Liam Neeson in a tight spot performing a character study instead of cutting the scene with his trigger finger […]
Times change and Diamond families could very well be the last generation who knows how it felt like to watch game shows as a family. For the record, it wasn’t too long ago that families would arrange their schedules to go watch shows like Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy with their families. With
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Black Cab, which is Frost’s latest film with Shudder (alongside his previous works Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Hyperdrive) quickly turns away from what one would call a horror installment. It merges somewhere onto the highly trafficked super freeway of psychological thriller where the likes of Leave the World Behind, Knock at the
Right around the time you think Nicolas Cage has done it all, and on all performative fronts, along comes a sneaky horror gem like Longlegs and sends you reeling. If you did not get that already, Nicolassaince (Pig, Arcadian) is not just an Oscar winning fella who deserves to be reduced to memes and jokes.
Alma Har-el first cemented her reputation as a filmmaker through powerful documentaries such as Bombay Beach and Love True which won over the people in Hollywood. The former gave a marvelous perspective of life at the dissolving Salton Sea and its people. Love True was some kind of a genre classic storytelling. It is perhaps
Murderous CGI sharks chew on old friends’ limbs in yet another unimaginative thriller featuring the final screen performance of respected actor Julian Sands. The Last Breath simply doesn’t seek to rise and exceed the restrictions of being an ordinary inexpensive indie with a regular roster of one-dimensional, stock characters. Barring that, however, Swedish filmmaker Joachim
Respected director Lee Daniels comes closer to horror by exploring the subject of a demonically possessed family. The Deliverance further knocks the audience out by touching on themes of abuse – alcoholism and the attempt to put the dysfunctional family in order within a chilling supernatural context. Andra Day and an almost unrecognizable Glenn Close
It was heartening to witness Alec Baldwin as an enraged Boston cop for the first time. Of course, this was not the last time viewers saw the actor in an angry or violent role, as almost two decades into the future, we see Baldwin again playing a hot headed character, only this time behind the
This is an awkward action-comedy where Antonio Banderas romanticizes Machiavelli while the last pieces of his criminal empire continue crumbling down. The Clean Up Crew wears your patience thin with exasperatings stories of incompetent and uncoordinated thieves, unethical law-enforcement officers and a crew of four crime scene clean-up who find themselves romantically involved in a
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Just when you thought burnished shadowy plots had their 21st century remedy with last week’s skincare release comes PRP to dry any resistance to The Other Laurens This flashy new neo-noir has glorious images in plenty but do not be deceived by the films W H setting. This feature from co-writer and director Claude Schmitz
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