Cinematic Void January Giallo 2023: The Editor (2014)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this American giallo on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Astron-6 is — well, was as the recent release of the collected Divorced Dad is supposedly their last project together — a Canadian film production and directing company founded in […]
WATCH THE SERIES: The Purge Part 1
James DeMonaco was born in Brooklyn but spent eight years in Paris. When he came back to America, he “put a microscope” on his life after realizing the difference in the relationship our country has with guns. He stated, “I’m terrified for my country. So I think that cynicism seeps into the film. America itself […]
THANKSGIVING TERROR: Kristy (2014)
Justine (Haley Bennett) is going to college on a scholarship and can’t afford to fly home for the Thanksgiving break. Instead, she’s all alone, as even her boyfriend Aaron (Lucas Till) and roommate Nicole (Erica Ash) have both gone home. Of course, she’ll be safe, because the security team — Wayne (Matthew St. Patrick), Dave […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: Through the Decades: 2010s Collection: Black Sea (2014)
Director Kevin Macdonald also made State of Play and The Last King of Scotland. For this movie, he’s working from a script by Dennis Kelly. Black Sea is all about the recently fired and divorced Captain Robinson (Jude Law) deciding to go into business for himself with a ragtag crew that is made up of misfits and Russian […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 9: Furious Road (2014)
9. A Film Directed by Jeff Leroy. With movies named Rat Scratch Fever, Frankenstein in a Women’ Prison and Giantess Attack, Jeff Leroy knows that some of the battle is fought when you name your movie. Also known as Grand Auto Theft: L.A. — a title that is pretty good you know? — this takes a Mad Max-style name to tell […]
Arnold Week: Sabotage (2014)
One of the amazing things about late in the career movies of big stars is that you can get stuff like, “What if Arnold Schwarzenegger was in a loose adaption of the Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None?” Yes, before he made the first Suicide Squad, David Ayer made this, which he co-wrote with […]
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Peter Strickland — who directed and wrote this film — also made In Fabric and Berberian Sound Studio, two movies that felt like they were not of our time. This movie isn’t just in the world of Jess Franco; it was nearly a remake of the Spanish director’s Lorna the Exorcist. The difference is that where Franco would […]
Mercenaries (2014)
Christopher Ray is, of course, the son of Fred Olen Ray. And Mercenaries is the female version of The Expendables starring Vivica A. Fox as former CIA operative Donna “Raven” Ravena, Zoë Bell as ex-Delta Force soldier Cassandra Clay, Kristanna Loken as one-time Marine Corps Scout Sniper Kat Morgan, Nicole Bilderback as Mei-Lin Fong the team’s explosives expert […]
Little Superman (2014)
Not everyone gets a romantic origin story. For Willy Wilson, a 12-year-old comic book fan, it takes falling into a manhole and getting trapped in a sewer for a few days to learn that he can fly and has telekinesis. So when he’s free, Willy puts on a mask and does what more than one remix […]
House of Secrets (2014)
Jeffrey Schenck has 220 — maybe more in the time it took me to write this — production credits on IMDB, including Panic In the Skies, Honeymoon with Mom and Ice Spiders. He wrote the story for this, which was developed into a screenplay by Michael Ciminera (Jersey Shore Shark Attack) and Richard Gnolfo (The Dog Who Saved Easter). […]
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