A high school science teacher tries to save his students from a malevolent vine-like growth invading his small town in Ick. For two decades, the small town of Eastbrook has been encroached by a viscious vine-like growth nicknamed “The Ick,” though one of the only people concerned seems to be football star turned science teacher…
Paul Atreides joins the Fremen people to get revenge against the House of Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two. After the fall of House Atreides on Arrakis, the result of a joint attack by the forces of Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken). Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Lady Jessica…
This review was originally published as part of my coverage of the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival A Halloween night episode of a late-night talk show goes horribly wrong in Late Night with the Devil. Night Owls with Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) was a once-thriving 1970s late-night talk show, which begins tanking in the ratings of…
A Halloween night episode of a late-night talk show goes horribly wrong in Late Night with the Devil. Night Owls with Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) was a once-thriving 1970s late-night talk show, which begins tanking in the ratings of Delroy’s wife Madeleine’s (Georgina Haig) death from cancer. Hoping to make a mark during sweeps week,…
The wife of a British colonel in post-war Germany develops a relationship with the owner of the house she’s living in The Aftermath. Five months after the end of the second World War in 1945, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) travels to Hamburg to join her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), who is a colonel helping to…
A young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey in Theeb. Theeb (Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat) is the youngest of three brothers living in a Bedouin tribe in the harsh desert environment of the Ottoman Empire’s Hejaz Province in 1916. When a British officer (Jack Fox) comes across…
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in this drama about the struggles of a man trying to project his business. New York City, 1981 is considered to be one of the most dangerous years in the city’s history. Abel Morales (Isaac) is businessman, who runs the “Standard Heating Oil” company with his wife Anna (Jessica…
British comedian Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) follows up his directorial debut Submarine with this highly surreal and stylized adaptation of the famous Dostoevsky novella. The Double focuses on Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), a meek man, who lives a really unnoticeable existence. His boss Mr. Papadopoulos (Wallace Shawn) fails to realize that Simon has been…
Samsara is not an easy film to describe. I guess you can call Samsara a documentary, even though it isn’t really about anything. I suppose my best description of the film would be “Avant Garde meets National Geographic.” It’s a film that you watch for the experience of watching it. There is nothing in the…
While most would automatically assume The Bourne Legacy is a reboot of the Bourne franchise, it is more a side-story that takes place during and after the events of The Bourne Ultimatum. It turns out that Jason Bourne and the Treadstone and Blackbriar programs that created him were just a small peace of a larger network of…
