STARMAN **** USA 1984 Dir: John Carpenter. 110 mins. Columbia Pictures passed on E.T. to make Carpenter’s least cynical, most tender movie – the director having endured a critical backlash thanks to the release of THE THING in the summer of the Spielberg picture. Far away from the nihilism of…
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Mandao Films have announced that they will screening their cult indie MANDAO OF THE DEAD at the LA Comic Con. MANDAO OF THE DEAD is a supernatural comedy about the reclusive Jay Mandao who lives frugally off his late father’s cereal royalties. He wants nothing more than to live in…
SILENCIO ** Mexico 2018 Dir: Lorena Villarreal 98 mins This starts off in the 1970’s as a couple of scientists investigate a rocket that has come down in Mexico. It had crash landed in a desert that has strange magnetic fields which has earned it the name the Zone Of…
FIGHTING THE SKY ** USA 2018 Dir: Conrad Faraj 97 mins As strange eerie noises are resonating around the world and people are turning up claiming to be from the future. A team of Extra Terrestrial enthusiasts led by Ufologist, Lorraine (Angela Cole) uncover the source of the noises and…
UPGRADE **** USA 2018 Dir: Leigh Whannell. 100 mins Leigh Whannell’s second film as director (following the superior INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3) is a hard-edged slice of technophobic sci-fi in which budgetary restrictions work in the film’s favour and obvious thematic parallels to ROBOCOP and Cronenbergian body horror do not distract…