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 […]
The Painter this drama tells the story of an A former CIA special operations officer drawn back to a violent life when he is stalked by a lethal black ops program and a woman he can’t shake off. One of the characters in The Painter, which is directed by Kimani Ray Smith and was scripted
Fake conversations and depictions should not go in a screenplay. I am stating this because it is evident throughout in ‘Red Right Hand’ that terrible writing is supported by ‘talented’ performers. No one ever should be asking them to swallow camera. It is disgusting. In the opening sequence of ‘Red Right Hand’, we see one
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
It is necessary to clarify that Prey is not to be regarded as the Predator film with this same title or Dick Maas’s lion loose in Amsterdam thriller, or even the 2007 film about a family of tourists who are being hunted by lions, or any other of the numerous action or slasher films with
It is clear that Tyler Perry’s new self-narrated project “Mea Culpa” aspires also to be many other genres including legal, erotic, and psychological thrillers. What is hard to buy is the presence of any kind of thrill in this astonishingly poor and empty attempt at a straight-to-streaming genre. As a matter of fact, it is
It’s not a first for old action heroes to make appearance in these even modestly funded projects. For many veteran action stars, the geezer teaser has repeatedly been a splendid opportunity to grab some fast bucks. However, these are often nothing more than the icing on a cake as the younger actor does all the
Film industry has always been popular in Indonesia and now it is expanding its borders due to streaming and conquest of The Raid film by Gareth Evans. After that, for the last few years, we saw many remarkable action and horror movies from Southeast Asia, mostly directed by Timo Tjahjanto. It is these attributes of
Why bother bringing Nicholas Cage on board if you will not allow him to go wild with an eccentric and over-the-top performance? The actor does precisely that in the gripping psychological thriller The Surfer. As he estimates the pace at which Kyle turns progressively more and more demented and his body literally starts falling apart,
