Thelma You might think you know what “Thelma,” Josh Margolin’s first feature film, is going to be when you hear the concept. Clearly based on his own family (therefore it’s only fitting that the dedication at the end of the movie is “for Thelma,” implying that he didn’t even change his grandmother’s name for the […]
100° Below Zero 100 Degrees Below Zero is yet another Asylum Studios film (more or less the New World Pictures of today, but not as radical). This is a studio that takes you to the movies for a blockbuster, remakes it, uses a fraction of the resources, and scatters it everywhere for the trash. 100
Road House The movie “Road House” often explicitly acknowledges its belief that it is a Western. It feels more like a cartoon. That isn’t necessarily such a bad thing some of the Looney Tunes like elements in this reimagining of the 1989 Patrick Swayze film actually work to its benefit. In fact, for much of
I Am Omega I Am Omega (2007) is an action / drama movie focusing on the zombie apocalypse genre produced by The Asylum and released directly to DVD. This can also be seen as an unoffical retelling of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend (1954). Griff Furst, director of Lake Placid 3 (2010) and Wolvesbayne
Leave the World Behind Sam Esmail, the writer/director of “Leave the World Behind” and creator of “Mr. Robot,” knows how to do a post apocalyptic story. There’s the snobby family stuck in an earth shaking event. “I f*cking hate people,” says Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts), jadedly peering out of her luxe Brooklyn apartment window. And
Geo-Disaster Right from the opening scenes, Geo Disaster starts with the science part, where black material appears to be going straight through Earth- in through one side and out the other. As if to say, the world has decided to go haywire and is now destabilizing itself by filling the gap with lava and various
The Holdovers Payne’s films like “Election”, “Citizen Ruth” and “Nebraska” have often been accused of having a condescending view towards characters. I’ve always thought that this criticism is a little too simple but also easy to see how people could arrive at that conclusion, given the number of oddballs populating his movies and the fine
The Land That Time Forgot The Land that Time Forgot seems to be one of those films that entirely missed the target audience. I personally remember watching it with my dad who took me out to watch it in our local single screen as a 9 year old boy. Ever since then Doug McClure became
Dìdi It is not common, but sometimes I go back to a movie and find that my first opinion was too negative. Upon seeing Sean Wang’s emotionally devastating coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance for the first time where it took home the festival’s audience award I believed his follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary
Eat Locals As the past decade has contributed an overabundance even to the most mediocre of zombie and found footage films, it is only fair that other previously played out sub-genres find the sunshine. Easily the sub-genres of vampires or werewolf films are those that deserve to be in the spotlight again. We’re not seeing
