Mystery

It could be that horror is his thing, but Chris Stuckmann went through with making his film “Shelby Oaks” with no fear. Busy counting the days to its Fantasia Festival World Premiere, many would be concerned about what audiences think. Stuckmann chuckles as he admits that it is probably something he has been thinking about […]

Opening with stabbing shots, David Mackenzie’s “Relay”, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a tight thriller. Riz Ahmed plays Tom, who plays a sort of middleman between the corporations and the people exposing the corporations. Tom is an extremely secretive character operating in a morally grey area until he […]

“Orion and the Dark”, a Netflix adaptation and Dreamworks co-production, excels in storytelling and heart better than most of Pixar’s recent outings. The so boldly lifts classic Pixar’s playbook of how to make human characters out of the impossible objects, in “Inside Out”, “Toy Story” and for that there is even a straightforward quote from […]

The premise of a solitary killer stalking a group of teenagers has been the template for the slasher genre for many years. In the last few decades however, the emphasis of the teen movies, and the co-ed for that matter, has shifted. Nevertheless, it attempts to use the same formula in #AMFAD: All My Friends […]

In the beginning of The Hangman, it features a title card which states that there are seven known portals to hell. This reprieve is drawn from Fulci’s The Beyond but the gateway of focus appears to be in West Virginia rather than underneath a hotel in New Orleans as one would imagine. Next, some cultists […]

Gunfighter Paradise: This strange little tale speaks about Stoner (Braz Cubas), an assassin who has recently come back to North Carolina after the death of his mother. The elderly woman left for her son a series of notes, written in a code that will only lead him on a winding journey through hell. He meets […]

The film “Poolman,” which is also the first filmed directed by Chris Pine is an eccentric character comedy about the residents of Los Angeles while at the same time poking fun at sleuthing 1940s genres. Executive producer Pine also played the title role, Darren Barrenman, who Ian Gotler helped him co-write as well. Today, Darren […]

As someone cautions Paris Long, one of the two main characters in Max’s original film “Caddo Lake,” “There’s no way in hell that you’ll be going anywhere if you are unable to put things in perspective.” I am not sure I would be able to articulate completely, this film therefore I might be in trouble. […]

‘Rule No. 1: Do not review a film without having seen it’ is one of the cardinal rules of being a critic. One of those was ‘The Dry’ directed by Robert Connolly: a riveting tension filled mood piece drama/ thriller’. It chronicles the return of a Melbourne police officer Aaron Falk by Eric Bana who […]

The portrayal of “Founder Days” as a ‘brash political slasher’ ring is an over-exaggeration of the movie, which is never more than a killing spree that follows down the post ‘scream’ killing spree of a disturbed town…Nancy’s parents are just manifested with the same over-the-top political correctness, with no sense of purpose. That distortion is […]