Battlefield 2025 (2020)
Here’s the official description of this film from the fine folks at October Coast: “Weekend campers, an escaped convict, young lovers and a police officer experience a night of terror when a hostile visitor from another world descends on a small Arizona town.” As for the title of this film, it doesn’t make sense until […]
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela has started to fall in love with her teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg. Manuela is played by Hertha Thiele, whose career, according to German film historians Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramman , was shaped by the fact that “her acting success may well have been based […]
Our Father’s Keeper (2020)
When David Roberts (Craig Lindquist), a successful man suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s wanders away from home a day before Thanksgiving, his already dysfunctional family, headed by his son Matthew (Kyler Steven Fisher), splintering under the financial and spiritual strain in caring for their patriarch, snaps. Out on the streets alone, David comes to develop […]
Making Time (2020)
Everyone dreams of second chances as they fight their demons of regret over past decisions and time wasted. This is the quandary facing Nick (Mason Heidger, the upcoming psychological short, Tomorrow Is Yesterday), a loveable “mad scientist” obsessed with the concept of time travel. Now, seven years after his first experiments, his career and finances […]
The Twilight People (1972)
Turns out The Island of Dr. Moreau is the next one over from Blood Island. This Filipino-lensed production was directed by the always dependable Eddie Romero and stars the equally trustworthy John Ashley. It’s everything you want it to be — trashy, goofy, transcendent. Matt Farrell (Ashley) is kidnapped by Neva Gordon (Pat Woodell, The Roommates) […]
Rocco, ang batang bato (1982)
A formula, if you will: Clash of the Titans X made in the Philippines X werewolves + witches + a cyclops + vampires = Boy God, one of the strangest films I’ve seen (and just think what that entails). Long story short: A young boy who has superpowers and is immortal battles to free his parents from […]
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