rochefort [Celluloid 09.25.17] action thriller

What makes the film work so well is that writer/director Jeremy Rush, producer Joe Carnahan and their excellent cast are as aware of the old tropes as we are, and have stripped everything down to the leanest possible components. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Cathode Ray Mission 09.20.17] horror cult

MVD Entertainment Group have announced the launch of the "MVD Rewind Collection", a series celebrating "cult classics and more from the video store" in special edition Blu-ray + DVD collector's sets loaded with special features. [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 09.20.17] horror

The trio behind 2012’s fever dream, Lowlife, return with a hallucinatory story focused on a woman and her child enveloped by an eerie atmosphere and creeping dread upon retreating to a remote coastal estate. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.20.17] post apocalyptic zombies musical horror

A trailer has arrived for Scottish zom-com-musical Anna and the Apocalypse, based on the BAFTA winning short film "Zombie Musical" by the late Ryan McHenry. While McHenry scripted the feature, it is directed by John McPhail (Where Do We Go From Here). The film will play at the 2017 Sitges Film Festival. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.18.17] anime cyberpunk scifi

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John Connor [Celluloid 09.15.17] horror comedy

The first trailer has hit for writer/director Ron Carlson's horror comedy Dead Ant about a glam-metal band who fight giant ants before the film permiers at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.15.17] horror

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John Connor [Celluloid 09.13.17] horror thriller

I love the home invasion genre and we've been getting a series of wonderful twists on it for a few years now. From Intruders (review) to You're Next, the genre is still alive and well. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 09.13.17] horror comedy drama

Dramedies about teens going from outcasts to popular are a dime a dozen but the really good ones stay with us and so we're still talking about Heathers decades after its debut and now it looks like we'll have a take on similar material for the social media age. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Marina Antunes [Cathode Ray Mission 09.12.17] scifi thriller drama

A few weeks back we got our first look at the upcoming Philip K. Dick anthology series "Electric Dreams." [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 09.12.17] horror

Chilean director Patricio Valladares has been busy. He has a handful of movies currently in production and two others scheduled for release this year one of which is Nightworld which feels very much like something that spawned from the mind of Stephen King or Clive Barker. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.12.17] western

Black Mass and Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper turns his sights to the western genre in Hostiles, the latest smart and haunting film in the genre's recent renaissance. [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 09.12.17] horror

In Adam MacDonald's (Backcountry) upcoming Peywacket, a frustrated girl attempts an occult ritual in order to kill her mother, but awakens something sinister in the woods instead. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.12.17] scifi action adventure

In brief: It has been announced that J.J. Abrams will return to complete the sequel trilogy he launched with The Force Awakens. He will write and direct the final film. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 09.08.17] horror thriller drama

Brian O'Malley's follow up to Let Us Prey is a gothic thriller about a crumbling mansion and the twins who inhabit it but The Lodgers (trailer) is also a story about family legacies and living with the sins, perceived or otherwise, of family. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 09.07.17] scifi thriller

It seems like I've been following the progress of Cold Skin, one of Xavier Gens' latest projects (he has no less than 3 which are due sometime this year or early next), for years. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 09.07.17] scifi thriller drama

After a somewhat tepid English language debut with Louder than Bombs, Norwegian writer/director Joachim Trier has returned to Europe for his latest, a sci-fi thriller titled Thelma. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.07.17] horror

DEMENTIA 13 is the retelling of Francis Ford Coppola’s film of the same name, which was produced by Roger Corman. [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 09.07.17] horror thriller

Vicente Amorim's motorcycle maniacs entry, Motorrad, will have its world premiere in the "Contemporary World Cinema" section at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival on September 11.  [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 09.06.17] horror thriller

Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouji: Origin of Evil) directs this adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name, "Gerald's Game". [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 09.05.17] horror

A new gothic horror film, The Lodgers has all the makings of a classic haunter, both twisted and gorgeously shot (if a little dark). [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 09.01.17] action adventure

Prolific Japanese director, this is his 100th movie!, Takeshi Miike is back and though his output over the last few years has been a bit hit and miss, Blade of the Immortal is already Quiet Earth approved coming out of Cannes and we've been eagerly anticipating a trailer for the latest buckets-of-blood extravaganza. Now that it's here, it does not disappoint. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 08.31.17] action thriller

Bushwick is intense. The thriller stars Brittany Snow and Dave Bautista as strangers who find themselves working together when their neighbourhood is suddenly attacked. The pair are trying to make their way to safety through a war zone with little knowledge of how or why their world suddenly imploded into all out war for survival. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

John Connor [Celluloid 08.30.17] horror

America’s largest and longest running horror film festival, Screamfest Horror Film Festival, is proud to announce the first wave of its official 2017 film line up. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 08.30.17] scifi thriller

Denis Villeneuve's hotly anticipated Blade Runner: 2049 picks up 30 years after the events of Ridley Scott's original film and is tasked with telling a new story within the universe while also filling in some of the gaps of what's happened in the ensuing 30 years. To fill in some of those gaps, Villeneuve asked three filmmakers to tell three short stories, each tellin... [Continue reading (7 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 08.29.17] action

Last week we had a first look at the poster for S. Craig Zahler's sophomore effort Brawl in Cell Block 99 and with the movie's release just over a month away, we're now getting a first look at the thriller which stars Vince Vaughn as Bradley, a former boxer and mechanic turned drug courier. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 08.29.17] cyberpunk scifi animation cult dystopic

Neo Tokyo (or "Labyrinth Tales") is a classic anime science fiction anthology adapted from the short stories written by Taku Mayumura. [Continue reading (4 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 08.29.17] scifi horror fantasy

Charlie Human's cult novel "Apocalypse Now Now comes to stunning life in this proof of concept short directed by Michael Matthews and written by Sean Drummond. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 08.28.17] scifi drama

Writer/director Mateo Gil is best known for making pensive dramas about big ideas and his latest project is no different. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 08.28.17] action comedy

Looks like during his breaks from chiding Donald Trump, Arnold Schwarzenegger is still making movies; it's just too bad few have looked good. Killing Gunther is no exception. [Continue reading]