FEEDBACK **** UK / Spain 2019 Dir: Pedro C Alonso. 97 mins At the start of this intense, timely London-set thriller, station boss Anthony Head dismisses radio host Eddie Marsan’s long-running late-night talk show “The Grim Reality” as too bleak and contentious for Brexit-era listeners just wanting to be cheered…
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COME TO DADDY **** Canada / New Zealand / Ireland / USA 2019 Dir: Ant Timpson. 93 mins Elijah Wood’s eclectic adult career chalks up another compelling, unsympathetic character in the feature directing debut for well-known producer Ant Timpson (DEATHGASM, TURBO KID); he also co-wrote the script with THE GREASY…
THE FURIES **** Australia 2019 Dir: Tony D’Aquino. 82 mins An archetypal heavy breathing, scythe-wielding masked killer in the woods pursues a wounded young woman. A second masked maniac appears from nowhere to disembowel the first. From its very first sequence, writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s dynamic 21st century revisionist slasher movie…
LEVEL 16 *** Canada 2018 Dir: Danishka Esterhazy. 102 mins Writer-director Danishka Esterhazy is destined for some level of cultdom due to her BANANA SPLITS horror movie, but this earlier credit is an understated, chilly sci-fi spin on familiar genre themes: class division and the extremities of the 21st century…
THE WITCH: PART 1 – THE SUBVERSION **** South Korea 2019 Dir: Hoon-jung Park. 125 mins This bold and gripping genre hybrid opens with disturbing hints of a massacre: two kids are on the run from some kind of experimental science lab where blood splattered teddy bears decorate what’s left…