A mild-mannered driver finds himself taken hostage by an unhinged passenger in Sympathy for the Devil. David (Joel Kinnaman) is racing to the hospital to be with his wife who is in labour. However, when he arrives, he is greeted by a gun-toting man (Nicholas Cage) dressed all in red, who gets into David’s car. …
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An anxiety-ridden man tries to make it home for his mother’s funeral in Beau is Afraid. Beau Wassermann (Joaquin Phoenix) is a middle-aged man who lives on his own, often afraid to venture out into the world around him. Beau regularly visits his therapist (Stephen McKinley Henderson) to talk about his anxieties, often involving his …
Three American filmmakers get more than they bargained for when investigating a ghost story in rural Quebec in Curse of Aurore. Casey Nolan, the host of the YouTube series Mind Seed TV, plays a video off a thumb drive found in a Dark Web mystery box. On it is footage shot by American filmmakers Aaron …
The connection between the films of David Lynch and his obsession with The Wizard of Oz is explored in Lynch/Oz. The Wizard of Oz is considered the quintessential American fairytale and has been an obsession of David Lynch throughout his career. From direct homages, such as the appearance of Glynda in 1990’s Wild at Heart, …
A unhappily married man becomes a suspect in the disappearances of his promiscuous wife’s lovers in Deep Water. Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda (Ana de Armas) are a unhappily married couple, who are avoiding divorce with an arrangement that allows Melinda to see various lovers on the side. This results in a seething jealously in …
A new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel hits the big screen with Dune: Part One. In 10191 A.G., Duke Leto I (Oscar Isaac) of House Atreides is assigned by the Emperor to the desert planet of Arrakis to takeover harvesting of the precious substance melange, also known as “spice.” Leto’s son Paul (Timothée …
A corporate assassin begins to literally lose her mind in Possessor. Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a woman who works for a company that uses mind implant technology to transfer Vos’ consciousness into a host body, which is then used to perform high profile assassinations, all under the watchful eye of her handler Girder (Jennifer …
A shapeshifter tries to reconnect with a past love in Lifechanger. For most of his life, Drew (Bill Oberst Jr.) has had the ability to take on the form of other people. The transformation only lasts for a brief period of time, before the body begins to rot and Drew must find a new host before …
A shapeshifter tries to reconnect with a past love in Lifechanger. For most of his life, Drew (Bill Oberst Jr.) has had the ability to take on the form of other people. The transformation only lasts for a brief period of time, before the body begins to rot and Drew must find a new host before …
A man with telekinetic powers faces off against a mad doctor in The Mind’s Eye. Since the 1980s, individuals with telekinetic powers have been appearing and have been progressively becoming deadlier. In late 1990, a fugitive telekinetic named Zack Connors (Graham Skipper) is picked up by authorities and admitted into a research institute run by Dr. Slovak …
After playing the awards game with the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and Oscar-nominated 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle returns to dishing out his unique take on genre films. In the case of Trance, what starts off as a fairly ordinary heist film, turns into psychological thriller in which the main protagonist begins to doubt the reality …
Well it’s time for the third anticipated trailer of the week. This is for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a film meant as a prequel of sorts for the Alien series. It’s also interesting in how this is one of the few films to have teaser trailers for the teaser trailer (also talked about). Throughout the week, we …
I have been hearing a lot of comparisons between this film and Liam Neeson’s surprise 2008 hit Taken. However, while they are both films that feature Neeson in a genre he is not usually known for, they are two different types of film. While the term is probably overused, the best description of Unknown would be …
The Wayans Brothers are back to doing spoofs with this week’s trailer. Dance Flick You can indirectly blame Aaron Seltzer & Jason Friedberg endless barrage of plotless spoof flicks on the success of the Wayans’ Scary Movie, which Seltzer and Friendberg co-wrote. Nearly a decade later, the Wayans’ return to the genre (quick note: they …