While his choice of projects sometimes leaves much to be desired it is still necessary to admire Ryan Reynolds’ approach to his work, for there are few actors
By day the oil wells drain the dry earth. Indoors, Hossein hides from the light, craving his next fix, while his son Arash (Arash Marandi) negotiates with dealer
A surly stranger walks into a bar, confrontational and challenging, but the bartender finds them interesting; conversation ensues. The stranger reveals to the bartender they’re a writer who
It’s difficult third film time for writer/director Neill Blomkamp, the release of his latest feature almost overshadowed by the near simultaneous announcement that he has been signed by
The best horror films are often not so much about what is onscreen as about what they tells us about ourselves, expressing fears of isolation, or abandonment, of
There are few writers whose work has passed so unconsciously into common parlance that those who reference it do not know the origin. The phrase “the lunatics have
In a garish hotel room, Nicholas Eastman (Maleficent‘s Brenton Thwaites) receives a message from the individual who identifies himself as Nomad. Having already hacked into the systems of
It may have been John Carpenter’s Hallowe’en in 1978 which is generally regarded as the film which brought the slasher horror subgenre to prominence but it was far
Like Lost in La Mancha to Terry Gilliam’s The Man who Killed Don Quixote (which ironically is in production again, fifteen years after original thwarted attempt), there are
Released in 2010, Gareth Edward’s Monsters was “the little film that could.” His debut feature film, funded for less than $500,000, it toured the festival circuit to great