Thursday, August 30, 2018

'Swiss Army Man' Directors May Team Up With Michelle Yeoh And Awkwafina For Their Next Weird Movie




So, the Daniels—Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert—the directorial duo behind the Harry Potter’s farting corpse movie, Swiss Army Man, have a new movie in the works. It sounds rad, may potentially star Crazy Rich Asians alums Michelle Yeoh and Awkwafina, and all is pretty cool with the world.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

'Blood Fest' (2018) Movie Review




It’s not uncommon to see movies about almost the exact same thing come out at almost the exact same time. Whether we’re talking Armageddon/Deep Impact, Dante’s Peak/Volcano, or White House Down/Olympus Has Fallen, this sort of thing happens all the time. And the latest such incident is the Blood Fest/Hell Fest duality, two movies about horror-themed events at amusement parks where things go horribly, violently wrong.

New Details About Ben Wheatley's 'Happy New Year, Colin Burstead'




Any time Ben Wheatley makes a movie, it has our full attention. And he has a new movie coming, and it’s finished, and has a title, and a premiere date, and there are some new details. It’s called Happy New Year, Colin Burstead and now we know some things about it.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

This 'Suspiria' Trailer Will Creep Out Your Morning




Remakes, remakes, blah, blah, whatever. It’s all been said before, and no matter what, I’m all kinds of jazzed for Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror fave Suspiria, even if it is two-and-a-half hours long. And this new trailer only makes me want it more. Take a gander after the jump.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

'Minding The Gap' (2018) Movie Review




For skateboarders, their sport means so much more than rolling around on a nicely shaped plank and four urethane wheels. It’s a way of life, a metaphorical act, an artistic endeavor, radical self-expression; it’s a survival mechanism, a way to create order in a world that doesn’t always make sense. Whatever significance a particular individual attaches to the act, it goes so far beyond kickflips and board slides, past concrete banks and handrails.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

'Slice' Trailer: Pizza, Werewolves, A Portal To Hell, And Chance The Rapper




You can’t never say A24 does the same thing every time out of the gate. Just when you think you have the boutique studio pegged, they drop a crazy-ass genre banger like Hereditary, a Muay Thai prison drama in the vein of A Prayer Before Dawn, or,  you know, a cheeky pizza delivery/werewolf/portal-to-hell horror yarn. Just watch the trailer for Slice below, it’ll all make sense. Well, sort of.

This 'Hold The Dark' Trailer Is Unbearably Tense




I don’t even know where to begin with this. On the heels of Blue Ruin and Green Room (I need to see his debut, Murder Party), Jeremy Saulnier quickly became one of my favorite filmmakers. And he’s back next month with his latest, Hold the Dark. If you’ve seen any of his previous films, you know you’re in for a rough time—and I mean that in the best possible way. And if you haven’t, this first trailer should clue you in. It also clearly demonstrates why this was one of my most anticipated movies of 2018.

Thursday, August 16, 2018

'Summer Of 84' (2018) Movie Review




Taken on their own, the last 15-20 minutes of Summer of 84—the latest from RKSS, the Canadian filmmaking collective behind Turbo Kid—work reasonably well. They would have worked even better if the film had done a single thing in the previous 80 minutes to earn the climax. It feels like they started with the end, but had no idea how to get there.

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

'BuyBust' (2018) Movie Review



Erik Matti’s BuyBust is almost great. As it is, it’s a solid actioner, especially for those of us who favor the gritty, down-and-dirty style usually relegated to the direct-to-video realm. Especially rough around the edges and chaotic, and full of weird-as-hell flourishes, it’s mean and violent and bleak as hell—be prepared for beheadings and morally questionable dirty deeds American movies shy away from. Matti and company offer a non-stop buffet of tension and potential disaster for the stars, all wrapped in an intriguing commentary on the current state of Philippines society and the draconian drug war under Duterte.

'Climax' Trailer: Gaspar Noe's Latest Is A Psychotropic Hell Of Orgies, Murder, And Choreography




To know him is to have strong feelings about him. Whatever your stance, French button-pusher, Gaspar Noé, is back with his latest attempt to shock and awe and discomfit, Climax. (I, for one, really want his wife and frequent collaborator, Lucile Hadžihalilović, to make another movie, because her last one, Evolution, was an all-timer.) With a title like Climax, and the man himself behind the camera, you know we’re in for a wild ride, and if you didn’t, this new trailer drives that point home.

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

'The Meg' (2018) Movie Review



If you know anything about The Meg, even the simple fact that it involves Jason Statham and a giant shark, and have ever seen a movie, it’s easy to predict what you’re going to get when you sit down in the theater. And The Meg delivers precisely the movie it promises, for better and worse.

'Foxtrot Six' Teaser: Watch This Incredibly Badass Indonesian Sci-Fi/Action Trailer



Mario Kassar is best known for producing movies like Total Recall, First Blood, Terminator 2, and a certain style of American action movie through his Carolco Pictures. But he’s apparently teaming with Indonesian filmmakers to develop Foxtrot Six, an action/sci-fi film starring the likes of Julie Estelle, Hammer Girl from The Raid 2, and Oka Antara (The Raid 2, Killers). It’s been in the works for a while, but the first teaser dropped today. Check it out.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

'A Prayer Before Dawn' (2017) Movie Review




Thinking of arthouse powerhouse A24, what comes to mind? Deft, off-kilter indie dramas? Unusual coming-of-age tales? Prestige horror? Odds are, when you think of A24 and their output, you probably don’t immediately go to gritty Muay Thai prison dramas. Well, with the release of Jean-Stephane Sauvaire’s A Prayer Before Dawn, that line of thinking certainly has to change.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

'Calling All Earthlings' (2018) Movie Review




Calling All Earthlings isn’t a great documentary. It’s messy and unfocused, threads show up and wander off willy nilly, and overall, it’s a jumble that lacks much oomph, narrative coherence, or discernible arc. It’s also bonkers weird, occasionally fascinating, and offers a unique look at a peculiar slice of wing-nut outsider Americana.