IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE *** Finland / Germany / Belgium 2019 Dir: Timo Vuorensola. 90 mins A likeable, busy sequel to the well-liked 2012 wannabe-cult movie, this post-Trump entry (yes, there is the line “Make Earth great again”) follows events in the wake of 2018, at which point the…
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IRON SKY *** Finland / Germany / Australia 2012 Dir: Timo Vuorensola. 93 mins Vuorsensola’s engaging, partly crowd-funded high-concept wannabe-cult movie has a wonderfully loopy premise: in 1967, this would have been made for $20, starred John Carradine and entitled HORROR OF THE MOON NAZIS. In 1945, Nazis left the…
HIGH MOON (a.k.a. Howlers) **** U.S.A. 2018 Dir: Josh Ridgway. 93 mins A gunfighter from the old wild west returns from the dead in an attempt to stop a blood hungry werewolf motorcycle gang from terrorising and killing the residents of a small town in the USA. In 1863 Colt…
PAYBACK **** U.S.A. 2020 Dir: Jesse V. Johnson. 97 mins Debt collector French (Scott Adkins) gets fired from his job at an old dive bar after one brawl too many with the locals. Sue (Louis Mandylor) who was presumed dead walks into French’s life giving him an offer he can’t…
Following the international success of ATTRACTION in late 2018, Fedor Bondarchuk’s follow up film ATTRACTION 2: INVASION will arrive on Digital platforms and on Blu-ray/DVD this July. This sci-fi action film was Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and Written by Oleg Malovichko and Andrey Zolotarev. The film stars Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal…