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Review: Destroyer (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A worn-out, alcoholic LA cop (Nicole Kidman) is forced to confront old demons when an enemy from her past reemerges. REVIEW: Karyn Kusama’s DESTROYER is, for me, the big surprise of this year’s TIFF. Having been a big fan...

The F*cking Black Sheep: Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993)

Posted 8 years ago

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We’re hoping this column will...

Let us give thanks for the new Captive State teaser trailer

Posted 8 years ago

Focus Features has debuted a new teaser trailer for their upcoming sci-fi thriller CAPTIVE STATE. Directed by Rupert Wyatt (RISE OF THE PLANEY OF THE APES, THE GAMBLER) and starring John Goodman (RAISING ARIZONA, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?), Ashton Sanders (MOONLIGHT,...

Focus Features sets off a new teaser poster for Rupert Wyatt’s Captive State

Posted 8 years ago

Focus Features has debuted a new teaser poster for CAPTIVE STATE, an upcoming sci-fi thriller from RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and THE GAMBLER helmer Rupert Wyatt. Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an...

Review: The Old Man and the Gun (TIFF 2018)

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: A seventy-four year old bank robber (Robert Redford) is tracked by a detective (Casey Affleck), all the while romancing a lonely widow (Sissy Spacek). 
 REVIEW: You wouldn’t think it given the subject, but THE OLD MAN & THE...

Exclusive! Paul Allica on his prep for the ass kicking film The Trigonal!

Posted 8 years ago

Have you heard of THE TRIGONAL yet? You will now. This hardcore and brutal martial arts film brings together fighters from the UFC, Tae Kwon Do Olympians, Wushu Gold Medalists and Muay Thai World Champions to give us a fiesta...

Dave Gibbons says Damon Lindelof’s take on Watchmen series is unexpected

Posted 8 years ago

Last year, Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers) entered talks with HBO to develop a television adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "Watchmen," the iconic and highly acclaimed graphic-novel. After finding themselves suitably impressed with the pilot, HBO handed down a...

Nicole Kidman on playing an Al Pacino-esque character in Destroyer

Posted 8 years ago

Women don't always get the chance to take on gritty lead characters in crime thrillers, but Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) will be doing just that in DESTROYER, an upcoming film from THE INVITATION director Karyn Kusama. Kidman will be...

DVD/Blu-ray Release Dates: September & October 2018

Posted 8 years ago

The Halloween season is right around the corner and the disk releases are echoing that, specially in terms of re-releases of classic oldies! In September, we have the 4K of Carpenter's classic CHRISTINE, a deluxe edition of that POS THE...

Review: Peppermint

Posted 8 years ago

PLOT: After receiving no justice in the aftermath of the murders of her husband and daughter by gang members, a frustrated woman reinvents herself as a vigilante, one determined to punish those responsible for ruining her life. REVIEW: I had...

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