The Leprechaun is back! No, is not that one. I meant the one from Champdog Films. Yes, the company follows up its film The Leprechaun’s Game, which was released earlier this year, with The Leprechaun’s Curse, aka The Leprechaun’s Rage (the film’s title on IMDb and its title on-screen). Like before, Bao Tieu reprises her […]
It’s been a while since I reviewed a giallo but it seems that is about to change. A few days ago I reviewed the 2017 film What the Waters Left Behind that was sent to me from Unearthed Films and MVD. It was an interesting horror film and quite bloody. Luciano and Nicolas Onetti, the
Patient and kindhearted, a painted storybook in motion, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is a lovely glimpse of what animation can be. Directed and cowritten by French moviemaker Benoît Chieux (with writing partner Alain Gagnol), and coproduced in Belgium and France, it’s a work that has a lot of influences, from “Yellow Submarine”
Tooth Fairy: Queen of Pain brings us Paula Coiz, Samantha Cull, Genna Loskutnikov, Giedre Jackyte, Marcus Massey, and Jo Barker. While it doesn’t quite blend supernatural elements with horror, it does do supernatural realism which is unique in its own right. It does proudly have a hint or two of fiction, given that it is
“The Last Front” is a first-rate calling-card movie a medium-budget project that feels much bigger because it puts all the money on the screen, as studio executives like to say, and that will make people want to trust first-time director Julien Hayet-Kerknawi with bigger budgets moving forward. But it seems more likely that it’ll be
The movie starts with a blend of subpar music that features piano instruments that overly emphasize the song’s melodramatic theme. The scenes of deserted camping spots are accompanied by pictures of the site the disclaimer covers unexplained reports of mass disappearance in the area. Cut to five bros chugging along in an SUV and cracking
“Cuckoo” gets more confusing the more it explains itself. The further writer-director Tilman Singer goes in articulating the strange goings-on that drive this stylish, unsettling thriller, the less compelling it becomes. Trying to comprehend the hows and whys of this twisted mystery creates a distraction from which the film never recovers. Either we needed to
Slasher parodies vary from good to bad, like Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012) and A Haunted House (2013), respectively. This one lets you ask, Fat Chance? Well. The movie opens up with a killing that seems to be compulsory followed by an over-the-top full-frontal nude shower scene. Afterward, we have a non-footage film about the
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She spoke about a program she created in Richmond, Virginia, to bring girls and their incarcerated fathers together in an environment that would make the fathers and daughters feel cherished and connected. These “Daddy Daughter Dances” have been so impactful the program has expanded
It is always fascinating to discover something new and unexpected in a particular movie year. It’s always surprising to see movies that I had no prior knowledge or expectation regarding them. Netflix did exactly that with their recent foreign language film “The Trip” an extraordinarily hard-to-pin down Norwegian movie by director and co-writer Tommy Wirkola.
