by Joseph Perry | Apr 25, 2024 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Paranormal, Reviews
Director John MacLaverty’s terrific documentary Loch Ness: They Created a Monster looks at the personalities involved in the search for Nessie, the legendary monster of Scotland’s Loch Ness, during the heyday of that searching, the 1970s and early 1980s. It’s a...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 19, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A serial killer who murders on the beach is running amok in an otherwise quiet coastal town, but that’s not the strangest thing going on in writer/director Neal Dhand’s science fiction thriller Dark My Light (2023). Detective Mitchell Morse (Albert Jones) seems to be...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 19, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
The Buildout (2024) Aficionados of enigmatic cinema and high strangeness should find plenty to like about writer/director Zeshaan Younus’ The Buildout. After the death of one of their sisters, friends Dylan (Hannah Alline) and Cameron (Jenna Kenall) go on a motorcycle...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 17, 2024 | Film Festivals, Movies, News
London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, the U.K.’s premiere horror and genre-film festival, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year from August 22-26, moving to the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square, and today revealing its fantastic poster for this year. Following is the...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 16, 2024 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Short Films
Following is a capsule review roundup of six of the short-film shockers that screened at this year’s edition of New Orlean’s Overlook Film Festival. Bookworm Bookworm (Ratón de biblioteca; Spain, 2023) from director Javier Yañez envelops viewers in a...
