ESCAPE: PUZZLE OF FEAR * USA 2020 Dir: J. Jones. 83 mins Still struggling with her traumatic past, hotshot agent Matt Blake (Tommy Nash) and his girlfriend Brittany (Aubrey Reynolds) decide to get together with their friends Tyler (Omar Gooding) and Angela (Naina Michaud) for a fun get-together which begins to trigger Brittany’s past. Playing it off, she agrees to follow them on a trip down to a local escape room where they’re thrust into a game with several other people for what seems like a fun yet spooky time. However, the longer they play the more the chosen scenario…
Author: Don Anelli
ATTRACTION 2: INVASION ** Russia 2020 Dir: Fedor Bondarchuk. 134 mins Three years have passed since Yulya Lebedeva (Irina Starshenbaum) first encountered the alien Artyom (Alexander Petrov) and allowed humanity their first look at extraterrestrial contact. In the meantime, the governments of the world are eager to get their hands on the advanced technological and medicinal gains to be had from their situation, and also dutifully set up measures to prevent such ships from attacking Earth unnoticed ever again. As she begins to undergo military study at her father General Lebedev’s (Oleg Menshikov) insistence to discover her strange new powers…