Zodiac, 2007. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, and Dermot Mulroney. SYNOPSIS: David Fincher’s 2007 classic Zodiac makes its 4K Ultra HD debut in a new edition from Paramount that also includes the two Blu-ray discs that comprised […]
Movie Review – Janet Planet (2024)
Janet Planet, 2024. Written and Directed by Annie Baker. Starring Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Sophie Okonedo, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, June Walker Grossman, Abby Harri, Edie Moon Kearns, Mary Beth Brooker, and Mary Shultz. SYNOPSIS: In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the […]
Janet Planet trailer teases A24’s critically-acclaimed coming of age drama
A24 and BBC Film has released the trailer for 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker’s critically-acclaimed coming of age drama Janet Planet. Charting a summer spent in the company of an 11-year old girl (Zoe Ziegler) and her mother, and the three visitors who enter her life, Janet Planet stars Julianne Nicholson (Dream Scenario), Elias […]
Movie Review – The Baker (2023)
The Baker, 2023. Directed by Jonathan Sobol. Starring Ron Perlman, Harvey Keitel, Elias Koteas, Joel David Moore, Emma Ho, Ronnie James Hughes, Samantha Kaine, Paolo Mancini, Adam Moryto, Dax Ravina, Caroline Raynaud, Varun Saranga, and Amber Ashley Smith. SYNOPSIS: An elderly baker must do everything he can to protect his granddaughter from gangsters. This piece […]
The Prophecy (1995) – October Horrors 2022
The Prophecy, 1995. Directed by Gregory Widen. Starring Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Amanda Plummer and Viggo Mortensen. SYNOPSIS: A sceptical police detectives investigation into a mysterious death puts him the middle of a civil war among the Angels of Heaven. Angels, mysterious beings sent to Earth by God to communicate His […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Crash (1996)
Crash, 1996. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, and Peter MacNeill. SYNOPSIS: A couple looking to spice up their sex life discover an underground cult of car crash victims who get sexual thrills out of road traffic accidents. A timely release given that Brandon Cronenberg’s […]
Extreme Cinema – David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996)
Crash, 1996. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette and Elias Koteas. Whilst the depiction of sex and violence in films has often been the main focal point for the British Board of Film Classification’s decision making, never have the two been combined more provocatively in mainstream cinema […]
October Horrors Day 28 – Let Me In (2010)
Let Me In, 2010. Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas and Richard Jenkins. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1983 in the city of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Owen, a bullied and lonely child, befriends the mysterious Abby, a young girl who has recently moved to the apartment complex in which Owen […]
