Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is an office worker in this highly dsyfunctional bureaucratic, consumerist, dystopian nightmare. At night, however, he dreams of soaring through the skies and rescuing a beautiful young woman. One day, he discovers Jill Layton (Kim Greist), a truck driver who’s trying to seek justice for Archibald Buttle (Brian Miller), a citizen killed due to a simple technological error.
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For the past couple of months, I’ve working on a fiction podcast for Headfone and the first episode has been published. I would be so thrilled if you could subscribe to listen. Once you do so, you can listen to all the other great shows that Headfone has to offer.
Continue reading “My Fiction: Love Bite”
Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) has moved to a new town after her mother was violently murdered. Her father Dale (Joe Chrest) has remarried this awful woman named Janet (Carla Gugino)(yes, that is a Rocky Horror reference) and now has a stepsister named Taffy (Liza Soberano). Lisa ends up spending a lot of time hanging out in the bachelor cemetery, where there’s a grave featuring a bust of a handsome young man.
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Claire (Millie Brady) is one of seven participants in an experimental drug trial. The person in charge of the trial is Dr. Burke (Pollyanna McIntosh), who works for Blackwood Pharmaceuticals. While staying at the company’s underground facility, Claire shares a room with Alison (Abby Fitz). Unlike her roommate, Allison is super bubbly and optimistic, which is sad because you know she’s not going to stay that way in a psychological thriller.
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Upon arriving at Oxford on a scholarship, Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) quickly becomes enamored with the richer and more popular Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). After becoming friends and hearing some troubling information about Oliver’s home situation, Felix invites him to spend the summer at Saltburn, the Catton family estate. From there, Oliver comes to learn more about how the other half lives as he meets the rest of Felix’s family and their associates.
Continue reading “Burn This G*****n House Right Down”
I’m going to do something a little different with this review by essentially giving you my conclusion first. The Sacrifice Game, co-written and directed by Jenn Wexler, is a great movie that you should watch immediately, then read this review. Much like The Cabin in the Woods, it’s a movie where it’s better if you go in blind. Just about the only thing safe to tell you is that it’s a horror movie about a cult going to an all girls boarding school during Christmas break for a human sacrifice to raise a demon.
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Jessica Wright (Nell Verlaque) is a resident of Plymouth, Massachusetts and the daughter of RightMart owner Thomas (Rick Hoffman). Her friend group consists of boyfriend Bobby (Jalen Thomas Brooks), Evan (Tomaso Sanelli), Scuba (Gabriel Davenport), Gabby (Addison Rae) and Yulia (Jenna Warren). On Thanksgiving one year, Jessica’s friends convince her to let them into RightMart for Black Friday ahead of everyone else, which inadvertently starts a riot that results in several people being injured and even killed.
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I went to see a Christmas movie in November. I’m kind of ashamed of myself for that, because I firmly believe the Christmas season doesn’t start until the day after Thanksgiving. I had to do it, however. The movie was called It’s A Wonderful Knife, a play on my favorite Christmas movie of all time. As a bonus, it was directed by Tyler MacIntyre, who directed and co-wrote Tragedy Girls, and written by Michael Kennedy, who co-wrote the script for Freaky.
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To see my review of Showdown at the Grand for MovieWeb, go here.
Thirty-eight years ago, Stuart Gordon came out with a film called Re-Animator, which became a cult hit and launched his career as a film director. Now, a film honoring his work has been released. It’s titled Suitable Flesh and had been a project that Gordon himself had tried to make, but ultimately couldn’t. It’s an adaptation of a H.P. Lovecraft story, so the screenplay written by Dennis Paoli. It has all of their hallmarks in it (see here for more details). Barbara Crampton was an executive producer on the film, in addition to playing a supporting character.
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