SYNOPSIS: Champion gamer Max Troy discovers events in a new video game are being mirrored in the real world, and must join forces with the game’s protagonist, Orson Creed, to unravel the conspiracy before the game’s sinister plot overwhelms the city. REVIEW: In the forty-five years since video games became commercially available, movies have become increasingly influenced by this outside …
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Film Review: The Faith of Anna Waters (The Offering) (2016)
SYNOPSIS: When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister’s and must join forces with her sister’s husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: Seizure (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A young gangster forced into trafficking girls goes into hiding when a deal goes wrong but when the girl unleashes her supernatural curse he must decide between his love for her or running for his life. REVIEW: As of writing in the year of our Lord 2020, Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen has just finished doing the rounds at the …
Read More »Film Review: Deleted Scenes (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: It is an experimental, unconventional story told almost entirely from the viewpoint of a deeply disturbed, sociopathic serial killer
Read More »Film Review: Elder Island (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Based on the true events revolving around Beaver Island, Michigan, and King James Strang… Elder Island. 1856. Peter Wiggentstein turned to the men of the five island families around him and warned, “Tell nothing of this,” as the men all looked at the body of their former Reverend – gunned down just outside his own home – and a …
Read More »Film Review: We Go On (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom takes out an advert offering 30000 dollars in reward money to the first person who can show him evidence of an angel, a demon, or prove that ghosts exist – anything to prove to him that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates …
Read More »Film Review: Lung II (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past? Or are they premonitions? REVIEW: If you’re familiar with the work of director Phil Stevens, you know he does things a bit differently, which in turn makes his films feel like a …
Read More »Film Review: Eddie (short film) (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Deep underground, a lone scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to deal with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he’d really rather not have to solve. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have EDDIE, a short film written by John Lynch and John Williams-Nobbs, directed by John Lynch. This is Mr. Lynch’s first fictional …
Read More »Film Review: The Killer Robots! Crash and Burn (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Robot mercenaries are sent on a mission to activate a machine that will bring about a new age of enlightenment. REVIEW: Let me know if this sounds familiar: A band of unlikely heroes, plucked from obscurity, are tasked to save the world. That’s all The Killer Robots! Crash and Burn is, really: Four robot mercenaries are saved from the …
Read More »Film Review: Candiland (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Struggling to rebuild their lives, a former tennis star and a recent divorcee decide to isolate themselves from the world in a quest for true “oneness”; as their affair descends into savagery, his father must fight to save them before they disappear completely into madness. REVIEW: Candiland is based on the novel “Candyland” by Elizabeth Engstrom. I haven’t read …
Read More »Film Review: Last Night (short film) (2016)
SYNOPSIS: This is a well told story, about a young woman who’s world kept secretly from those around. A promising short-film that excels in it’s sinergy of different art forms.
Read More »Film Review: The Neon Demon (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After Jesse, a callow and unsophisticated teenage girl, finds herself in Los Angeles at the behest of an amateur fashion photographer she met online, other people higher up the modeling world food chain begin to take a distressingly omnivorous notice of her unripe purity. REVIEW: Inspired by Roger Vadim’s Et Mourir de Plaisir (USA, Blood and …
Read More »Film Review: Don’t Knock Twice (2016)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: For Jess, life has never been better. A successful American sculptor, she has recently returned to the UK, where she spent much of her troubled youth. Now happily married, wealthy and settled, all that remains to make her life complete is to rebuild her relationship with Chloe, the daughter she was forced to give up nine years …
Read More »Film Review: Awake In My Sleep (short film) (2016)
SYNOPSIS: When a man downloads an app to record himself sleep talking at night, he discovers the voice recorded is someone else’s. REVIEW: Awake in My Sleep an Australian Horror short filmed in 2016. The short features only three actors and spans around 29 minutes. Christopher Middleton plays our main character Liam Spencer. Liam is dealing with the untimely death …
Read More »Film Review: Melody Makers: Should’ve Been There (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Melody Maker Magazine’s Chief Contributing Photographer(1965-1975), Barrie Wentzell tells the story of the rise and fall of the magazine, which marked the end to a style of rock n’ roll journalism that no longer exit’s today. REVIEW: “Melody Makers: Should’ve Been There” is a new releases from Cleopatra Entertainment (originally created in 2016) focusing on the mid 60’s to …
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