Scare Package, 2019. Directed by Courtney Andujar, Hilary Andujar, Anthony Cousins, Emily Hagins, Aaron B. Koontz, Chris McInroy, Noah Segan, and Baron Vaughn. Starring Jeremy King, Noah Segan, Toni Trucks, Chase Williamson, Baron Vaughn, Zoe Graham, Byron Brown, Chelsey Grant, Luxy Banner, Josephine McAdam, Aaron D. Alexander, Allan McLeod, Jocelyn DeBoer, Melanie Minichino, Jonathan Fernandez, […]
Video Game Review – Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Shaun Munro reviews Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout… The success of Battle Royale phenoms PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite has of course resulted in a glut of me-too efforts following in their footsteps, yet few finding truly unique and creative ways to re-imagine the fast-tiring genre. The gentle brilliance of Devolver Digital’s Fall Guys, then, lies in throwing […]
Movie Review – Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, and David Dencik. SYNOPSIS: In a distant, unnamed colonial outpost in the Middle Eastern desert, a Magistrate begins to question his loyalty to the Empire after the arrival of state security officers with morally questionable […]
Movie Review – La Llorona (2019)
La Llorona, 2019. Written and directed by Jayro Bustamante. Starring María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Julio Diaz, and Margarita Kenéfic. SYNOPSIS: An aging paranoid dictator, protected by an witchcrafting wife, faces death and the uprising of his people in Guatemala. Atypical of Hollywood’s tendency to soullessly remake successful foreign-language horror hits, in the […]
Netflix Review – The Umbrella Academy Season 2
Shaun Munro reviews the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy… There’s no sophomore slump for The Umbrella Academy, which returns to screens with a vibrant second season that’s at least as smart, thrilling, funny, and heartfelt as what came before – if not a touch more so. If the basic narrative through-line once again […]
Video Game Preview – Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Shaun Munro digs into the closed beta for Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout… First announced at E3 2019, Devolver Digital’s Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a Battle Royale game with a difference; there aren’t any guns, and you don’t have to kill anyone. The 60-player online elimination game is instead presented as a game show-style obstacle course, […]
Movie Review – Yes, God, Yes (2019)
Yes, God, Yes, 2019. Written and directed by Karen Maine. Starring Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Wolfgang Novogratz, Francesca Reale, Susan Blackwell, Parker Wierling, Alisha Boe, and Donna Lynne Champlin. SYNOPSIS: After an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 2000s discovers masturbating and struggles to suppress her new urges in the […]
Netflix Review – Cursed
Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s Cursed… If the corpse of Guy Ritchie’s failed – yet actually quite entertaining – punk-rock blockbuster version of King Arthur is barely cold, there’s something to be said for a take on Arthurian legend which isn’t striving desperately for a multi-strand cinematic universe, and even dares to […]
Top 10 Movies Of 2020 (So Far)
Shaun Munro runs down his top 10 movies of 2020 (so far)… 2020 has certainly been a year so far, and though the global closure of cinemas has resulted in countless anticipated blockbuster movies being pushed back to dates undetermined, it has nevertheless allowed small-screen viewing to flourish. While we’ve all been missing the thrill of […]
Movie Review – Palm Springs (2020)
Palm Springs, 2020. Directed by Max Barbakow. Starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Tyler Hoechlin, Camila Mendes, Peter Gallagher, Meredith Hagner, Chris Pang, Tongayi Chirisa, Jacqueline Obradors, Dale Dickey, Brian Duffy, and June Squibb. SYNOPSIS: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things […]
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