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Hailing from an era defined by kids’ cartoons designed purely to sell toys, Masters of the Universe was one of the cheesiest and most ridiculous, especially amongst the few still broadly recognizable this deep into the twenty-first century. It wielded a then-popular blend of high-fantasy and futuristic, space-based sci-fi easily at home on the side […]
Cape Fear, the new AppleTV+ adaptation of John MacDonald’s “The Executioners” as well as two previous film installments with the same name*, did something that most new TV series can’t do: It got me to keep watching all the way through my screeners despite me being pretty sure that I didn’t like the series. How […]
Arco is an animated film from France that explores themes of family and the environment and serves as Ugo Bienvenu’s feature film. Arco Dorell (Juliano Krue Valdi) is a 10-year-old boy in the distant future where time travel is possible. He wants to travel back in time and see dinosaurs, but only children older than […]
How do you adapt a no-budget, avant-garde, YouTube-based anthology series like Backrooms into a mainstream feature film? You could point to Skinamarink as an experimental horror that received a theatrical release. But it was acquired out of a festival, and never reached one thousand screens. Conversely, A24 approached Kane Parsons about adapting his own series into […]
Misguided is a sitcom pilot made for Channel 4’s Comedy Blaps series of one-off shorts. Rhiannon (Lauren Morais) is an ex-popular girl who is forced to join the most unpopular organisation imaginable: the Girl Guides. She has to spend a day with nerdy good-girl Kate (Nerys Amber Stocks), Libby (Meg Alexandra), who likes older men, and Nisha (Nia […]
Tuner is a crime drama directed by documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher, serving as his narrative film debut. Niki White (Leo Woodall) is a piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis. When he takes a job to tune a piano at a wealthy client’s house, Niki meets Uri (Lior Raz), the owner of a security company who is […]
There’s something to be said for a show that is up to its neck with actors of a certain age who have decades of experience in front of the camera. It’s not always true that this particular line-up leads to television gold, but more often than not – especially when paired with an interesting, unique […]
Passenger is a film that combines an American road movie with supernatural horror. Tyler (Jacob Scipio) and Maddie (Lou Llobell) are a couple who move out of their Brooklyn apartment and travel America in a van. After witnessing a car accident in Tennessee, Maddie begins to see a scary figure she can’t escape. The couple […]
The Star Wars universe makes its big cinematic return after a seven-year absence. This new adventure sees The Mandalorian make his cinematic debut after leading three seasons of TV. Din Djarin/The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) has been working as a bounty hunter for the New Republic. He hunts down Imperial war criminals and brings them to […]
The fact that horror is the only genre left that reliably brings in a profit due to its ability to get by on tiny budgets (see: Obsession‘s second week increase on less than $1 million) means there’s just about always a new flick coming out, if you know where to look. The low stakes also […]