THE TRIBE ** U.S.A. 2016 Dir: Roxy Shih 97 mins After a promising first couple of minutes The Tribe quickly slows down to trickle as we meet 3 sisters whose family have succumbed to a disease that has almost wiped out the human race. Oldest sister, Jenny (Jessica Rothe) is…
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BIRD BOX **** USA 2018 Dir: Susanne Bier. 124 mins Josh Malerman’s terrifying novel has been effectively adapted by Eric Heisserer, the talented writer of ARRIVAL and genre films like the underrated THE THING prequel and FINAL DESTINATION 5. In the time it has taken for this Netflix production to…
MOLLY **** Netherlands 2017 Dir: Colinda Bongers, Thijs Meuwese. 91 mins Setting its scene (and style) with a superb pre / post-apocalyptic beach-set jump cut followed by a bravura one-take fight scene, this is a remarkably assured low-budget dystopian action picture. The eponymous Molly (Julia Batelaan) is the stuff of…
Following in the long tradition of Psychological Post-Apocalyptic movies such as The Mist, District Nine, The Road and Cloverfield comes RIBBONS. How would you deal if the end of the world began during your dinner party? RIBBONS is a story of how 5 houseguests, locked in a basement make sense…
Artsploitation Films has announced the home video release of the Dutch action/sci-fi thriller MOLLY. The English-language first feature from co-directors Colinda Bongers and Thijs Meuwese, MOLLY premiered at the Imagine Film Festival, where Screen Anarchy raved: “like with Turbo Kid two years ago, ingenuity is the name of the game…