ELLIPSE *** USA 2019 Dir: Joe Bland & Grant Martin. 76 mins Writer, director and one of the two main characters Grant Martin is grieving the loss of his wife and in a time where space exploration seems to be common place he goes on a bit of a drunken…
KAKATSHAT **** Canada 2019 Dir: Eve Ringuette. 8 mins Unfolding in Inuktitut dialect, this opens with a note of how Innus return to their homelands at the end of summer. In 1829, a grandmother is abandoned by a young man, whom she curses along with his descendants. In the modern…
This April a unique, stylish, genre-bending noir adventure from cult Canadian indie filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, Weirdos) comes to DVD and Digital, DREAMLAND. Starring Stephen McHattie (Mother!), Henry Rollins (Lost Highway) and Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers). Synopsis: DREAMLAND tells the story of a gang who hire a hitman…
In 1980, Indonesian exploitation studio Rapi Films and writer/director Sisworo Gautama Putra (PRIMITIVES, THE WARRIOR) unleashed the singular chiller that rocked the Muslim nation, transformed the country’s genre film industry, and remains one of the most influential shockers in Asian horror history. While mourning the death of his mother, a…
CLICKBAIT ** USA 2019 Dir: Sophia Cacciola, Michael J Epstein. 80 mins Over-indulged running gags and heavy-handed attempts at satire mar this attempt to puncture an all-too easy target. The impressive opening deep focus shot sets up our central character, Bailey (Colby Stewart), a college student renowned for her “flashes”…