I am overjoyed the NY Film Festival persevered this year, despite the odds. And they did so with their usual intelligence and humor (the festival poster by John Waters was a great, funny touch). Their film choices were even more…
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Keegan Allen (King Cobra) plays Cole, a good-looking, arrogant, internet vlogger, who has built a 10-year international fan base watching his goofy antics traveling the globe, taking crazy risks, and always looking for the next thrill. The original title…
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A beautiful stately manor house in England, located far from anyone, amid green, rolling hills. This is the setting for a home invasion tale that goes spectacularly, violently, wrong in director Julius Berg’s tense thriller. Mary (Maisie Williams, Arya Stark…
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A horror/western hybrid with a good cast, that you wish was better and scarier than it is. After a botched train robbery, the Dalton gang heads for a nearby town to get medical attention for their wounded leader Duncan (Zachary…
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Director Amy Seimetz’s eerily relevant, visually trippy nightmare fable begins with Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), who suddenly becomes convinced that she will be dead tomorrow. Unfortunately, her morbid “idee fixe” has a communicable effect on her friends, and this overwhelming…
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Director Vaclav Marhoul’s harrowing and beautiful adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird is a nearly 3-hour, black & white, Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape. Petra Kotlar hauntingly plays the young boy Petra, sent to a rural village in Eastern Europe to…
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Director Natalie Erika James’ first feature-length film is the most terrifying, and surprisingly moving, film you’ll see this year. Emily Mortimer plays Kay, who drives from Melbourne with her older daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) because a neighbor reports to the…
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Despite the outrageous premise, writer/director & star Tyler Cornack’s film plays it (sort of) straight, which makes for an unforgettable, jaw-dropping, 99 minutes of celluloid madness. Cornack plays the lead- sad sack Chip Gutchell, an office IT drone in a…
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Something wicked this way comes to a small lakeside resort town in brothers Brett & Drew Pierce’s skillful, genuinely creepy, chiller. Troubled teen Ben (John-Paul Howard) has been sent to live with his dad (Jamison Jones) and work the summer…
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There is a galvanizing, homoerotic, punk-rock energy coursing through director Justin Kurzel’s unorthodox retelling of the oft-told tale of mythic 19th century Australian bandit Ned Kelly (here played with fierce intensity by “1917” star George Mackay). Raised in a tin shack…
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