Director and Screenwriter Mike Flanagan’s film Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling 2013 novel of the same name sees a middle-aged Danny (son of Jack) Torrance seeking to start a new life in a new town yet being drawn into battling a troupe of steam-addicted, child-killing near immortals by a young girl rich […]
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Molly’s Game (2017)
Available on Netflix Directed By Aaron Sorkin Starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner While the phrase “based on a true story” is usually code for “Hollywood has run out of original ideas so we hired a cheap screenwriter to adapt a biography in order to save money and still have a shot at an […]
Ford V Ferrari (2019)
Directed By: James Mangold Starring: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, John Bernthal Ah, the irresistible charm of sports movies. Was Rocky the first? Surely it is the template at the very least*. You know the story, a down on his luck, plucky contender gets wriled up usually by some Herald-come-trainer** to get back to the form […]
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Director: S. Craig Zahler Starring: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles After three feature films we can now safely say that S. Craig Zahler’s ‘Zahlerness’ is not a fluke. An uncompromising and unapologetic vision reveals the stamp of an auteur throughout Bone Tomahawk (2015), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) and Dragged Across Concrete (2018). Zahler himself is a multidisciplinarian who has written, directed […]
War Dogs 2016
Director : Todd Phillips Starring: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller Available on: Netflix Right now it seems if you don’t have an opinion on Todd Phillips’ DC foray you’re either dead or Joaquin Phoenix. Having not seen Joker hasn’t stopped anyone from offering an opinion to date but journalistic integrity (and frugality and laziness) has driven me to explore Todd Phillips’ back […]
In The Tall Grass (2019)
Available on: Netflix Starring: Patrick Wilson Directed by: Vincenzo Natalie I think Stephen King really hates mowing lawns. He has managed to find horror in the lawnmower itself in The Lawnmower Man (1992), King appeared as a half man / half grass monster in Creepshow (1982) and most recently has had Netflix adapt his novella In The Tall Grass (2019). While Sunday garden maintenance can […]
Coherence (2013)
Between the years 2011 and 2013, an astral phenomenon occurred which caused several different Screenwriters to have the same idea. The product of that idea was the following films: Melancholia (2011) – Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. Another Earth (2011) – On the night of the discovery […]
Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
After a desperate plea from her sister, a horror writer returns to the home in which the siblings and their mother were brutally attacked sixteen years earlier. The only thing I knew of Ghostland was that it was Written and Directed by Pascal Laugier and the only thing I knew about Pascal Laugier was that he’d Written […]
White Chamber (2018)
Netflix’s new release, White Chamber* is a Sci-Fi Horror made and set in the United Kingdom. Being a sucker for Sci-Fi and a hound for Horror, I decided to give this one a go without having heard anything about it. The setup is thus: During a future civil war in the UK, A woman wakes up in a futuristic […]
Burning (2018)
On the face of it, Burning may be a hard sell. A two and a half hour slow burning mystery which leaves more loose ends than it ties up is not going to be everybody’s jar of kimchi. Adapted from a Haruki Murakami short story called Barn Burning the film follows seeming loner and aspiring young novelist Jong-su (Ah-in […]
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