OCIMOKW!! (Allez-vous-en!!) ** Canada 2017 Dir: Mathis Ottawa. 3 mins Teenage filmmaker Mathis Ottawa made his first short film APOCALYPSE at the age of 13 in 2016, and OCIMOKW!! is the first of a planned series of similarly themed films. It is built on the simplest of set-ups, as a…
From writer-director Rebecca J. Matthews (Pet Graveyard), and starring Kate Lush, Abi Casson Thompson, Heather Jackson and Richard D. Myers, comes the movie THE CANDY WITCH. Synopsis: Two ghost hunters are called upon a distressed family who claim they are being tormented by an evil spirit known in their…
D.A.R.Y.L. *** UK / USA 1985 Dir: Simon Wincer. 99 mins Despite a cloyingly slushy Marvin Hamlisch and a godawful theme song by Teddy Pendergrass that farts in the general direction of the ending, this is an appealing Amblin-era family sci-fi thriller. After an impressive opening mountaintop helicopter-car chase, an…
THE TRUTH WILL OUT *** UK 2020 Dir: Jessica Hunt & Sam Mason-Bell. 86 mins ‘Hard Streets UK’ is a hard hitting reality drama show of eccentric British lives. It is brought to you by the hilariously grumpy and very sarcastic John Cleese like Thomas Laboss who leads his small…
HOLLAND ROAD MASSACRE: THE LEGEND OF PIGMAN **** USA 2020 Dir: Emir Skalonja. 78 mins Lauren, played by Heather Dunham, and Kylie, played by Kristina Santiago join forces in a desolate woodland after Lauren’s car breaks down on the infamous Holland Road and encounters Kylie who came to see a…