Saturday, October 20, 2018
MANDY (2018)
Story & Directed By: Panos Cosamatos
Written By: Panos Cosamatos & Aaron Stewart-Ahn
Cinematography By: Benjamin Loeb
Editor: Brett W. Bachman
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Andrea Riseborough, Richard Brake, Ned Dennehy
Taking place in 1983, Red is a lumberjack who lives in a secluded cabin in the woods. His artist girlfriend Mandy spends her days reading fantasy paperbacks. Then one day, she catches the eye of a crazed cult leader, who conjures a group of motorcycle-riding demons to kidnap her. Red, armed with a crossbow and custom Axe, stops at nothing to get her back, leaving a bloody, brutal pile of bodies in his wake.
PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH (2018)
Directed By: Sunny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund
Written By: Z. Craig Zehler
Based on Characters Created By: Charles Band & Kenneth J. Hall
Cast: Thomas Lennon, Barbara Crampton, Michael Pare, Nelson Franklin, Betsy Holt, Charlyne Yi, Udo Kier, Skeeta Jenkins
Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet in his deceased brother's room, he decides to sell the doll for some quick cash. Girl-next-door Ashley and and comic book pal Markowitz join Edgar for a doomed road trip to an auction at a convention celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets at the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that's motivated by an evil as old as time.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
SUMMER OF 84 (2018)
Directed By: Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS)
Written By: Matt Leslie & Stephen J. Smith
Cinematography By: Jean Philipe Bernier
Editor: Austin Andrews
Music By: Le Matos
Cast: Rich Sommer, Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Cory Gruter-Andrew, Caleb Emery, Tiera Skovbye, William McDonald, Susie Castillo, Jason Gray-Stanford, Shauna Johannesen
After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
THE FINAL GIRLS (2015)
Directed By: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Written By: Joshua John Miller & M.A. Fortin
Cinematography By: Elie Smolkin
Editor: Debbie Berman
Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alia Shawkat, Adam Devine, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Angela Trimbaur, Chloe Bridges, Thomas Middleditch, Torey N. Thompson, Lauren Gros
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Written By: David Koepp & Martin Donovan
Cinematography By: Dean Cundey
Editor: Arthur Schmidt
Cast: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Michelle Johnson, Alaina Reed Hall, Adam Storke, Fabio, Debra Jo Rupp, Jonathan Silverman, Ian Ogilvy, Mary Ellen Trainor
When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.
TEETH (2007)
Written & Directed By: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Cinematography By: Wolfgang Held
Editor: Joe Landauer
Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Lenny Von Dohlen, Ashley Springer, Hale Appleman
Dawn grows up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. In high school, while her biology class studies evolution, she realizes she may have a hidden curse, an "adaptation." She lives with her mom, step-father, and hard-edged step-brother. She likes Tobey, a guy at school, and he likes her. She takes a pledge to remain chaste until marriage, so they date in groups, watch G-rated films, and don't kiss, but the power of teen hormones is great, so temptation beckons. Dawn has an admirer in Ryan, and when when things have an unexpected twist with Tobey, she turns to Ryan for help. Will he be her mythical hero and rescue her? Or can she find her way as her own hero, turning the curse into an asset?
Labels:
2007,
Cult,
HORROR,
Jess Weixler,
John Hensley,
Josh Pais,
Lenny Von Dohlen,
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Thursday, October 11, 2018
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (2018)
Directed By: Peyton Reed
Written By: Paul Rudd, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari
Based On Characters Created By: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby & Larry Lieber
Cinematography By: Dante Spinotti
Editor: Dan Lebental & Craig Wood
Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily, Michael Douglas, Michael Pena, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hannah John-Kamen, Randall Park, Judy Greer, Bobby Cannavale, Tip T.I. Harris, David Dastmalchain
In the aftermath of CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a superhero and a father. As he struggles to rebalance his home life with his responsibilities as Ant-Man, he's confronted by Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym with an urgent new mission. Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside The Wasp as the team works together to uncover secrets from their past.
THE STEPFORD WIVES (2004)
Directed By: Frank Oz
Written By: Paul Rudnick
Based On The Book By: Ira Levin
Cinematography By: Rob Hahn
Editor: Jay Rabinowitz
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Roger Bart, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill, Matt Malloy, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Kadee Strickland
Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events, suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class, and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the acerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a Jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful and, somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?
JIGSAW (2017)
Directed By: Michael Spierig &Peter Spierig
Written By: Josh Stolberg & Pete Goldfinger
Cinematography By: Ben Nott
Editor: Kevin Gruetert
Cast: Matt Passmore, Callum Keith Rennie, Laura Vandervoort, Hannah Emily Anderson, Cle Bennett Tobin Bell, Mandela Van Peebles, Brittany Allen, Paul Braunstein
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years.
THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX (2018)
Directed By: Julius Onah
Written By: Oren Uziel
Story By: Oren Uziel & Doug Jung
Cinematography By: Dan Mindel
Editor: Alan Baumgarten, Matt Evans & Rebevva Valente
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O’Dowd, Daniel Bruhl, David Oyelowo, John Ortiz, Ziyi Zhang, Donal Logue, Roger Davies, Elizabeth Debicki
Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Saturday, October 6, 2018
BLADE: TRINITY (2004)
Written & Directed By: David S. Goyer
Based on Characters Created By: Marv Wolfman & Gene Colan
Cinematography By: Gabriel Beristain
Editor: Conrad Smart & Howard E. Smith
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, Dominic Purcell, Kris Kristofferson, Patton Oswalt, Natasha Lyonne, Francoise Yip, James Remar, John Michael Higgins, Callum Keith Rennie, Paul Levesque, Eric Bogosian
Blade finds himself alone surrounded by enemies, fighting an up hill battle with the vampire nation and now humans. He joins forces with a group of vampire hunters who call themselves the Nightstalkers. The vampire nation awakens the king of vampires Dracula from his slumber with intentions of using his primitive blood to become day-walkers. On the other side is Blade and his team manifesting a virus that could wipe out the vampire race once and for all. In the end the two sides will collide and only one will come out victorious, a battle between the ultimate vampire who never knew defeat, facing off against the greatest vampire slayer.
MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND (2006)
Directed By: Ivan Reitman
Written By: Don Payne
Cinematography By: Don Burgess
Editor: Wendy Greene Bricmont & Sheldon Kahn
Cast: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson, Wanda Sykes, Mark Consuelos
When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.
BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY (1991)
Directed By: Peter Hewitt
Written By: Chris Matheson & Ed Soloman
Cinematography By: Oliver Wood
Editor: David Finfer
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, George Carlin, Joss Ackland, Pam Grier, Hal Landon Jr., Sarah Trigger, Jim Martin, Taj Mahal, Primus
The world of our distant future is a veritable utopia, thanks to the lyrics of two simple-minded 20th Century rock and rollers, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan. However, a would-be conquerer threatens to throw history off-track by sending "most non-non-heinous" evil robot Bill and Teds back to kill their good counterparts. Finding themselves dead, the boys must outwit the Grim Reaper and traverse Heaven and Hell to return to the land of the living, rescue their "babes" and have a "most triumphant" concert at the all-important Battle of the Bands
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