Ever wonder what happens to those poor souls who win the lottery and end up destitute? Filmmaker Michael Morris depicts one particularly gut wrenching version of that scenario in To Leslie, a film which features a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Andrea Riseborough (Birdman  ...

Every now and then competing studios find themselves making and releasing the same sort of product around the same time. In 1998, Touchstone Pictures (Disney) and Paramount went head-to-head with asteroid disaster ensembles. While Michael Bay’s Armageddon clearly trounced Mimi  ...

The anti-hero, the McGuffin, the duplicitous femme fatale, film noir, German expressionism seeping its way into western film—these things have influenced our movies for longer than this reviewer’s father was alive, and they’re things that we take for granted because they’ve become old hat. But  ...

Talk about a toxic relationship! The one shared between Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his handler Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult, About a Boy) has gotten so bad that Renfield, a former real estate agent who sold his soul to the Count some 100 years ago, attends a  ...

Watch the official trailer for Danny & Michael Phillipou's terrifying debut film, TALK TO ME. The horror sensation that took festival audiences by storm is poised to be the breakout hit of the summer. Check out the trailer and poster below ...

Now, this is how you do independent horror!  The performances are unsettling; the mood is dark; and everything works together to create an unforgettable survival film as showing more and telling less becomes this film’s secret  ...

“Is that what I was so afraid of?” What is the scariest kind of monster? Is it a knife-wielding, masked psychopath wreaking havoc in a small town? Is it an alien creature from another planet that can eat or mimic another species completely? Is it an unpredictable, reconstructed monster made by a mad scientist  ...

How far would you go to prevent someone you love from suffering?  This is the question behind the intentions of Esme My Love, a powerfully moving story complete with a suspenseful meditation on love, loss, duality, family and magic.  With on point cinematography and a stellar soundscape ...

Remember those childhood fears of things that go bump in the night? Well, they may not be just be our imagination after all. What if there actually were creatures hiding in the closet? ...

A few years back, I got to write a long form article about the Superman films, so if you’re looking for a deep dive then please check out: ‘Superman On the Big Screen: Parts 1-4’. For this new UHD release from Warner Bros, I’ll give a quick review of each of the five included Christopher Reeve  ...