by Joseph Perry | Apr 24, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
Becky’s back, and that’s bad news for another bunch of neo-Nazis. In The Wrath of Becky, Lulu Wilson reprises the titular role in this sequel to 2020’s Becky, in which a preteen girl wastes a group of white supremacists who killed her father. This time around, a trio...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 24, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
Director Colton Van Til takes a trippy deep dive into the dark heart of a 1950s American family in Meltdown: A Nuclear Family’s Ascension into Madness. This impressive fear-fare feature combines disorienting visuals — those with photosensitive epilepsy or other...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 19, 2023 | Film Festivals, Movies, Reviews
Black Mold Writer/director John Pata’s Black Mold fairly drips with dread as Brooke (Agnes Albright) and Tanner (Andrew Bailes) — a pair of photographer friends who shoot decrepit, abandoned buildings — find themselves trapped in one such structure by a homeless man...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 17, 2023 | Documentaries, Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
French/Belgian coproduction King on Screen is a valentine to the film adaptations of prolific author Stephen King — who truly needs no introduction here — and to the writer himself. Featuring talking-head interviews with filmmakers who adapted King’s works to big and...
by Joseph Perry | Apr 17, 2023 | Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews, Thriller
The Bigfoot Trap The Bigfoot Trap (U.S., 2023) is not another movie about Sasquatch running rampant on misbehaving city folk — far from it, although we do get a nice variation on that type of person here. Josh MacMahon (Tyler Weisenauer) has set aside his goal of...
