Tarantino meets Bad Times At The El Royale in writer-director Kevin James Barry’s AMONG THEM, now available on Amazon Prime and Tubi TV from Cinema Epoch. AMONG THEM stars Jonathan Thomson, Dan Liebman and Evalena Marie, who also co-wrote the script. Synopsis: After a botched heist, two bank robbers…
SAME BOAT **** USA 2019 Dir: Chris Roberti. 83 mins James and Mot are time traveling assassins whose latest assignment takes place on a cruise ship. James is a seasoned pro who has learned to emotionally distance himself from his work, telling himself that humanity is better off as the…
BALLET BLANC ** USA 2019 Dir: Anne-Sophie Dutoit. 89 mins Writer-director Anne-Sophie Dutoit’s film is an ambitious dialogue / character-driven three-hander, largely set in two rooms and employing multiple narrators via a unique framing device. The first voice we hear, disarmingly, is the throaty, Mercedes McCambridge-like cadence of Mrs Willis…
LORE ** USA 2017 Dir: Christian Larsen, Brock Manwill. 87 mins With his parents going through a painful divorce, a 17 year old boy heads off alone with his backpack to the mountains and doesn’t come back. In one of his half-dozen or so cameos this week, Sheriff Eric Roberts…
POWERBOMB *** USA 2020 Dir: B.J. Colangelo & R. Zachary Shildwachter. 80 mins At what price does a shot at a wrestling title come? In Powerbomb we are introduced in a fun and familial way to the life of semi-pro wrestler Matt Cross (played well here by himself) as he…