There Are No Saints was quite a thrill ride...of contradictions. However, nevermind the plot holes, pyrotechnics that defied psychics, the wanton violence against women, the commitment of a cinema sin, and the film subjecting audiences to just about the most irredeemable protagonist since Patrick Bateman, I still found There Are No Saints to be a [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - I can't believe it's claymation -- I totally lost myself inside of Junk Head creator Takahide Hori's world! Having written the screenplay and directed the film, configured the lighting, drafted character designs, and so much more in order to create Junk Head over the course of 7 years, this [...]

There is a real problem in Hollywood that is films that are created by committees, where instead of an artistic vision they ape off what is popular without understanding why. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some new directors don't have a clear vision so they substitute things from other films they enjoy to [...]

Gritty does not even begin to describe co-writers/co-directors Luciana Garraza's and Eric Fleitas's film Scavenger (2021), a film that made me feel every blow exchanged between foes, smell every unshowered ruffian scavenging off of the film's barren landscape, and taste the fresh blood that satiated the parched mouths of the film's sorry characters. It would [...]

SUNDANCE 2021 PREMIERE - I never thought that I would see Nicolas Cage in a loincloth, but now I have really seen him do it all. Directed by Sion Sono (Suicide Club, Tokyo Tribe) in his first English-language film, Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) seems to be a very collaboratory project, with signatures of Nicolas [...]

And now for something completely different, director Alister Grierson's horror film Bloody Hell (2020) is an insane, wild ride that splatters the audience with both blood and comedy. With fevered editing and pacing reminiscent of a Guy Ritchie movie and enough gore to possibly satiate even Eli Roth, Bloody Hell is perhaps like if Hostel [...]

A sci-fi flick on par with Syfy channel quality as far as storyline, acting, and aesthetic, Skylines (or Skyline 3, or SKYLIN3S) is the follow up to 2010's Skyline and 2017's Beyond Skyline. Skylines (2020) is an equal balance of science fiction and action thriller, utilizing a lot of CGI as well as practical effects [...]