Vertical Entertainment has released a poster and trailer for the fantasy thriller The Blazing World. Directed by Carlson Young, the film follows a self-destructive young woman who finds herself drawn to an alternate dimension when she returns to her family home, where her sister who died decades earlier may still be alive. Decades after the […]
Sundance London 2021 Review – The Blazing World
The Blazing World, 2021. Directed by Carlson Young. Starring Carlson Young, Udo Kier, Dermot Mulroney, Vinessa Shaw, Soko, and John Karna. SYNOPSIS: A woman believes her deceased sister may still be alive and trapped in another metaphysical realm, from which she tries to save her. Horror films typically open with something a bit scary; something […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Blazing World
The Blazing World, 2021. Co-written and directed by Carlson Young. Starring Udo Kier, Carlson Young, Dermot Mulroney, Vinessa Shaw, John Karna, and Soko. SYNOPSIS: Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be […]
2021 according to Johnny Mnemonic
Tom Jolliffe looks at the world of Johnny Mnemonic, and its mid-90’s depiction of what 2021 might be like… 2020 has been a relentless hundred hand slap to the balls. Edge of Tomorrow predicted 2020 as an Earth besieged by aliens, one year after Blade Runner had offered up the prospect of replicants walking among […]
Horror film Skin Walker gets a trailer
A trailer has arrived online for writer-director Christian Neuman’s upcoming horror Skin Walker which stars Amber Anderson as Regine, a young woman who must return to the village she left behind following her traumatic childhood, after her grandmother is brutally murdered. Joining Anderson in the cast is Udo Kier and Jefferson Hall; watch the trailer […]
Samara Weaving stars in trailer for mystery thriller Last Moment of Clarity
Lionsgate has released a trailer for writer-directors Colin and James Krisel’s upcoming mystery thriller Last Moment of Clarity which stars Zach Avery as Sam, a man who comes to suspect that a Hollywood Starlet (Samara Weaving) is his actually his girlfriend Georgia, who he believed was murdered years earlier. After his girlfriend Georgia (Samara Weaving, […]
Movie Review – Bacurau (2019)
Bacurau, 2019. Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Starring Bárbara Colen, Sônia Braga, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima and Udo Kier. SYNOPSIS: A small Brazilian town finds itself under siege from heavily armed American invaders. Above all else, Bacurau delights in its status as a slippery, unpredictable beast that straddles genres, tones […]
Movie Review – The Painted Bird (2019)
The Painted Bird, 2019. Directed by Václav Marhoul. Starring Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgard, Barry Pepper, Udo Kier, Julian Sands, and Petr Kotlár. SYNOPSIS: Based on Jerzy Kosinski’s controversial novel, the story takes place on the Eastern Front during World War II, where a young Jewish boy encounters a living hell after his aunt dies and […]
First poster and trailer for The Mountain starring Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan
Kino Lorber has debuted a poster and trailer for the 50s-set drama The Mountain. Directed by Rick Alverson, the film stars Jeff Goldblum as a lobotomist who enlists the help of a young photographer (Tye Sheridan) on his tour to promote his recently debunked medical procedure. Joining Goldblum and Sheridan in the cast are Hannah […]
Second Opinion – Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, 2018. Directed by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund. Starring Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Charlyne Yi, Barbara Crampton, Michael Pare and Udo Kier. SYNOPSIS: While trying to sell a morbid doll at a slightly distasteful murder anniversary convention, a comic book shop employee finds himself in the midst of […]
