It’s the kind of sentiment you expect to hear on stage at the Kodak Theater around this time of year: “It’s important to learn from the suffering of other people”. Except this time it’s not coming from the mouth of someone who’s just made an Oscar-winning film, it’s said by […]
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Mind-Set (2023) A Bittersweet Observation of Modern Love (Review)
Released on demand and in select cinemas tomorrow, Mind-Set is the feature-length directorial debut of Scottish filmmaker, academic and festival programmer Mikey Murray, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is a story for our time, concerning a couple played by American actor Eilis Cahill (Mad), and Steve Oram (Sightseers), […]
Time Addicts (2023) The Foul-Mouthed Sleeper Comedy of 2023? (Review)
Time Addicts is one of the most singular concoctions that I’ve seen in some time. It tells a tale of time travelling, drug addiction, and eventually, intergenerational neglect and trauma, and all within the guise of an australian stoner comedy in possession of the godly gift of creative (bad) language. […]
Final Summer (2023): A Summer Camp Slasher Without A Deep Cut (Review)
Another Day to Live Through (2023) Majestic Finland, Less Majestic as a Psychological Thriller (Review)
In the last few years, horror and thriller movies have been slipping out of corners of the world not usually associated with darker storytelling standards – Lithuania, Malaysia and beyond. Peter Simmons has worked in short films as an actor, director, writer and producer for a number of years, and […]
Outpost (2022) Modern American Comedy Icon makes the thrillingly violent leap to Indie Horror (Review)
Outpost is the feature debut from comedy stalwart Joe Lo Truglio and begins with Kate (Beth Dover), who tries to find a life of peaceful tranquillity in an Idaho fire-watch outpost following a violent attack. With nobody but her neighbour Reggie (Dylan Baker), for company, Kate begins to learn that […]
The Black Mass & Black Mold (Frightfest 2023) (Review)
The Black Mass January 14th, 1978. While a mysterious man shaves, a warped voiceover explains how murderers have no identifiable features, which means that anybody in your life could be demonic. That chilling realisation lingers as the unnamed man (Andy Sykes), walks into a store intending to charm people, pick […]