by Joseph Perry | Aug 29, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
HERD (2023) I’m admittedly a hard sell on zombie fare, but am open to seeing if new releases have something different to offer. Although director Stephen Pierce’s Herd follows many of the subgenre’s familiar beats and tropes, it does serve up some novel takes...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 23, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
THE BANALITY (2023) The Banality (AKA Death Letter Blues) is a moving meditation on the mysteries of life peppered with supernatural elements, set in rural Mississippi and rich in southern gothic atmosphere. A young feral boy is found in the area and town...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 23, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
BIBI (2023) A gorgeous looking meditation on grief and loss, writer/director Christopher Beatty’s atmospheric thriller Bibi uses gothic elements in its story of a woman named Vivan (Elizabeth Paige in a riveting lead performance) and the troubled relationship...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 17, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Subject (2023) Australian shocker Subject centers on Willem (Stephen Phillips), who we meet when he is under arrest and in a police van, only to be taken away by mysterious agent Dalesky (director Tristan Barr), who offers him an alternative to prison. Willem,...
by Joseph Perry | Aug 11, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
Where the Devil Roams (2023) In arguably their darkest and certainly their goriest offering yet, filmmakers The Adams Family — John Adams, Toby Poser, and their daughter Zelda Adams — invest Where the Devil Roams with an inescapable air of dread. The family...
