John Connor [Celluloid 01.17.20] scifi

Devs follows the story of a young software engineer, Lily Chan, who investigates the secretive development division of her employer which she believes is behind her boyfriend's murder. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.17.20] thriller crime

Michael Cristofer hasn't stepped behind the camera in nearly twenty years but the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/director/playwright and actor is back with a new original work: The Night Clerk. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.17.20] war

Zacarias is young and looking for adventure so he signs up for the Portuguese army. It's 1917 and he ends up in Mozambique, a Portuguese colony in mid-war against the invading Germans. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.17.20] thriller mystery

A young woman returns home to Niagara Falls after the death of her mother. She and her sister are estranged but the pair must come together to decide what to do with their mother's dilapidated motel. Abby want to save it, Laure wants to get rid of it. [Continue reading]

Simon Read [Celluloid 01.17.20] comedy


Jack Henry Robbins' VHYes is at once a nostalgic reflection of a bygone era of analogue TV and video, and a rather demented and surreal dark comedy. The domesticity of Ralph's life - hanging out with his best friend Josh (Rahm Braslaw), recording himself playing music and with his dinosaur toys, occasionally spying on his parents - is contrasted by the bizarre array... [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 01.17.20] horror action thriller drama

Distributor Global Digital Releasing is known for finding award-winning indie and festival fare that would otherwise go under-the-radar and make it available to the many. Some of their award winning titles include Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name, Dain Said’s Interchange and Gareth Bryn’s BAFTA winning drama The Passing.

Getting a jump on 2020, th... [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 01.16.20] horror

Glenn Danzig's directorial debut, is a horror anthology that compiles stories from Danzig's line of comic books of the same name. Stories which focus on horror content that's often sexual and violent in nature, usually featuring scantily-clad female protagonists. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.16.20] action

Daniel Radcliffe is among the child-actors of the last decade who has managed to emerge mostly unscathed as an adult talent though he's done so via a series of oddball roles in movies that are far from mainstream. He's been Ginsberg, Igor, a farting corpse, and the latest appears to be another example of Radcliffe playing by his own rules. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.13.20] horror

I spent far more time trying to decipher the Coppola family tree to figure out how the two Coppolas that turn up in Michael Thomas Daniel's Get Gone fit into the acting/directing family, than the movie is probably deserving of but alas, that's how things go sometimes. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.13.20] thriller crime

A woman, acting in self-defence, accidentally kills a man. In a panicked moment, she decides its in her and her son's best interest to hide the murder but her decision weighs heavy. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.13.20] horror action vampires

It's rather appropriate that Jared Leto, who is nearly 50, is playing a vampire in the upcoming Morbius, mostly because I'm not convinced that he's NOT a vampire but alas, that is a discussion for a different day. [Continue reading (3 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.11.20] thriller drama


Josh Hartnett stars as Kip, the head of the Conley clan which also includes Josie (Margarita Levieva) and younger brother Boots (Owen Teague). Kip is a veteran, a soon-to-be father, and works at the local factory and while he may think he calls the shots, Josie is the de facto head of the family. She's the one that handles the bulk of the family business which large... [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.10.20] drama western

Ned Kelly isn't new to movies. The famous, or more accurately infamous, Australian bushranger has appeared numerous times on film, perhaps most notably in 2003 when Heath Ledger, played the outlaw in Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.10.20] documentary

1968 was a huge year in film, especially for fans of science fiction, with the release of both Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Franklin J. Schaffner's Planet of the Apes. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Cathode Ray Mission 01.08.20]

It's not uncommon for projects to have long gestation periods before eventually seeing the light of day but we've been hearing about an adaptation of "Locke & Key" for a decade when the show was first pitched to Fox who passed on the series order (though the pilot was, rather oddly, still shown at SDCC - likely in a last-ditch effort to get some more attention). [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 01.07.20] scifi horror cult crime comic

“Joker” centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 01.07.20] horror thriller

Extracurricular is a new horror film from production house September 17 Studio and director Ray Xue (Transcendent). It's got a Bret Easton Ellis vibe that I'm digging. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 01.07.20] scifi action adventure

James Cameron's Avatar sequel is finished principle photograph, heading for a 2021 release date. Four pieces of concept art were shared by the film's official social media accounts which shows some of Pandora's ocean setting we've been told will be important to the plot. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.06.20] horror

It's been a couple of years since we've seen anything new from writer/director Pearry Reginald Teo but Teo is back with a new horror movie that looks particularly promising. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 01.03.20]

2019 was certainly an interesting year. There are mixed feelings around these parts as to whether it was a good or bad year in film but however you cut it, the Quiet Earth team saw a few things that we really liked - enough to recommend them. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Contests 12.19.19] drama

Russ Millings is released from a 21-year prison sentence for a minor crime into a world he doesn't recognize. Adjusting to life as a somewhat-free man is hard but he's scraping by, working as a dishwasher and re-learning how to live on the outside. His hard life gets harder when Russ discovers a baby the dumpster and rather than turning it in, goes on the run. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 12.19.19] scifi thriller

The next film from Christopher Nolan is coming out in 2020 and the first full trailer has been released by Warner Bros. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

John Connor [Celluloid 12.19.19] horror thriller

From director/producer Ant Timpson (Turbo Kid) comes a new demented thriller, Come to Daddy. The film stars Elijah Wood as a man in his thirties who receives a cryptic invitation to a remote cabin for a visit with his father after a lifetime of estrangement. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 12.17.19] horror

The early months of the year have turned into a bit of a dumping ground for movies that are best forgotten but once in a while one comes along that surpasses expectation. Though I don't expect that The Sonata will be breaking any records, I do hope that it at least does right by Rutger Hauer. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 12.17.19] horror

What happens when a deeply religious nurse finds herself caring for an atheist? She becomes completely obsessed with saving her employer's soul. And things get terribly ugly. [Continue reading]

John Connor [Celluloid 12.17.19] horror action thriller drama samurai adventure avant-garde

Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami Matsushima, who assumes the mantle of Scorpion, becoming an avatar of vengeance and survival, and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Film Festival 12.13.19] scifi mystery


Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star as Tom and Gemma, a happy couple looking to start the next step of their life together by purchasing a new home. Curious about a development called Yonder, the couple walks into the sales office for a look and almost immediately find themselves cornered into a road trip "near enough" to see one of the Yonder homes for themselves... [Continue reading (4 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Film Festival 12.12.19] thriller


We first see Mel running through the woods. She looks fierce and determined, a woman with a place to be and little time to deal with anyone; she scarcely glances at the various people she passes on the path. She meets up with a woman in a parking lot who turns out to be her sister coming to provide "support" in Mel's personal marathon; I say personal because there's... [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Film Festival 12.12.19] scifi drama


Chambers, along with Paloma Kwiatkowski, Robert Naylor, and Sandra Mae Frank, star as a group of college students experimenting with time travel. Their experiments yield results but they don't realize just how successful their experiments are until months after one of them is tragically killed in a car accident and the dead colleague appears seemingly out of nowhere... [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Film Festival 12.12.19] drama


In one, we have Sylvio Arriola as Frederic, a college philosophy professor in search of romance who harbours an unhealthy, and frankly a little gross, attraction to one of his students. He seems largely uninterested and disengaged from the class and the feeling from the students seems mutual with most of them paying little attention to Frederic's droning on about th... [Continue reading]