Directed by Álex de la Iglesia Written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and de la Iglesia Released by IFC Midnight Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 112 min. Not rated With Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto, Carolina Bang, Terele Pávez, Jaime Ordóñez, Gabriel Ángel Delgado, Santiago Segura, Macarena Gómez, and Carmen Maura It’s been a long, long […]
Tribeca Film Festival, which has brought audiences Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal and Trollhunter in the past, brings two more B-movies with tell-it-like-it-is titles in its genre laden Midnight section, plus the world premiere of an amicable American indie with TV stars Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs. Life Partners Directed by Susanna Fogel Written by Susanna […]
Directed by Zack Parker Written by Kevin Donner and Parker Released by IFC Midnight USA. 122 min Rated R With Alexia Rasmussen, Alexa Havins, Kristina Klebe, Joe Swanberg, and Erika Hoveland For about 45 minutes, Proxy is a disturbing, intriguing original indie horror film focusing on the term “indie” (character, rather than plot, driven). Then […]
Filmed, Written & Directed by Joe Begos Produced by Begos, Anthony Ambrosino & Ethier Released by IFC Midnight USA. 80 min. Not rated With Graham Skipper, Vanessa Leigh, Josh Ethier, Michael Locicero & Susan T. Travers The slasher film Almost Human starts off with a jolt of adrenaline as a young man, Mark (Josh Ethier), […]
Written & Directed by Adrián García Bogliano Produced by Andrea Quiroz Hernández Released by Magnet Releasing Spanish with English subtitles Mexico. 97 min. Not rated With Laura Caro, Francisco Barreiro, Michele Garcia, Alan Martinez, David Cabezud & Giancarlo Ruiz Aside from a curt synopsis, I had no idea what to expect from this film. I […]
Directed by Ruairi Robinson Written by Clive Dawson, based on the short story “The Animators” by Sydney J. Bounds Produced by Michael Kuhn & Andrea Cornwell Released by Magnet Releasing UK/Ireland. 98 min. Rated R With Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams & Johnny Harris Last Days on Mars has a crisis of […]
Edited, Written, Produced & Directed by Rob Kuhns Released by First Run Features USA. 76 Minutes, Not rated Feat George Romero, Elvis Mitchell & Larry Fessenden The first thing you must know before you see this documentary about the cultural impact of 1968’s Night of the Living Dead is that it’s not necessary in the […]
Directed by Giulio Paradisio Written by Paradisi, Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi & Ovidio Assonitis Produced by Assonitis Released by Drafthouse Films With Paige Conner, Joanne Nail, Lance Henricksen, Mel Ferrer, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford & Sam Peckinpah Distributor Drafthouse Films is out to find the weird, the bizarre, the off-kilter (to say the […]
Directed by Jim Mickle Written by Mickle & Nick Damici, based on the film We Are What We Are, directed by Jorge Michel Grau Produced by Andrew Corkin, Nicholas Shumaker, Jack Turner & Rodrigo Bellott Released by Entertainment One USA. 104 min. Rated R With Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell, Kassie DePaiva, […]