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…
ESCAPE FROM L.A. **** USA 1996 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Paramount gave Carpenter his biggest budget to date to make his only sequel as director : the result, co-written with Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, was one of the most bleakest “fun” movies of the 1990’s. It follows other…
BLOOD MACHINES **** France 2019 Dir: Seth Ickerman. 50 mins Space hunters Vascan (Anders Heinrichsen) and Lago (Christian Erickson) are tracking down a damaged ship. Before they destroy it, they’re confronted by a group of priestesses that tell them the ship is actually a living thing. They then witness the…
ABNORMAL ATTRACTION ** USA 2018 Dir: Michael Leavy. 107 mins A colourful but increasingly strained hybrid of whimsy, juvenile humour, heavy handed social commentary and cartoonish gore, this unfolds in an alternate U.S.A. where fantasy creatures live alongside humans, the leader is named President Shump and there are the expected…