LANDING LAKE ** UK 2017 Dir: Cesare P. Libardi di K. 98 mins A team of satellite engineers head into the forest to repair a radio tower, as they arrive they witness a plane crash. Heading deeper into the woods they come across a lake where they find the stricken…
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TRANSFERENCE *** USA 2020 Dir: Matthew Ninaber, Jennifer Lloyd. 85 mins Twins Josh and Emma hide their supernatural abilities from the world in the sci-fi film, Transference. Since their father’s death as children, Josh has sworn to protect Emma from the outside world due to her telekinetic and telepathic powers.…
D.A.R.Y.L. *** UK / USA 1985 Dir: Simon Wincer. 99 mins Despite a cloyingly slushy Marvin Hamlisch and a godawful theme song by Teddy Pendergrass that farts in the general direction of the ending, this is an appealing Amblin-era family sci-fi thriller. After an impressive opening mountaintop helicopter-car chase, an…
THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC BOX *** Poland 2017 Dir: Bodo Kox. 103 mins This Polish sci fi/drama has some cruel and humorous twists but deep down it is essentially a tender romance story. Adam (Piotr Polak) is a janitor stuck in his menial job at a corporate company in…
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES **** USA 1963 Dir: Roger Corman. 79 mins Far from the gimmicky shocker suggested by the title, this stand-out Corman picture has a terrific performance by Ray Milland as a modern spin on the doomed Poe protagonists that dominated the filmmaker’s work at…