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Mike Flanagan’s (The Midnight Club, Midnight Mass, Gerald's Game) The Fall of the House of Usher, like his four previous ones, is a supernatural horror series influenced and inspired by classic works of horror: Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill...

Warning: spoilers ahead. For the record, I never cracked open Stephen King's Gerald's Game because I just couldn't take what the cover --- a pair of handcuffs hanging from a bedpost, its top carved into a crouching, hurting woman ---...

When mommy loves daddy, sometimes she lets him handcuff her to a bed in a very private, very remote location, far, far away. But sometimes, daddy goes away, and mommy is left to fend for herself, still handcuffed... Back in...

"Keep compartmentalizing" is a piece of advice from a commanding officer to his ace pilot. This is darkly humourous, intelligent screenwriting because these drone-piloting soldiers spend 12 hours a day literally inside a box, albeit an air-conditioned one filled...

Still lean and handsome in his 50s, Bruce Greenwood has proven to be an incredibly versatile actor over a career that stretches back to the late 1970s. In many of his roles, Greenwood has exuded great intelligence, whether he's playing...

MEEK'S CUTOFF One of the truly great films I saw this year was Meek's Cutoff. The news that it would be released on Blu was great indeed. Shot in a 1:37:1 aspect ration this existential western is visually stunning not...

The trailer for the Canadian shot horror film Cell 213 is here by director Stephen Kay and stars Eric Balfour, Michael Rooker and Bruce Greenwood.Cell 213 becomes home to Michael Gray a cocky young attorney, after a gruesome twist of circumstance lands him...

Director Stephen Kay has been laboring in TV land for some time now; long since his last theatrical horror film Boogeyman. Last year he shot the supernatural thriller Cell 213 outside of the Toronto area and it will see the...

From the stark practicality of its needlepoint opening title shot, director Kelly Reichardt makes it plain and clear that "Meek's Cutoff" is not your ordinary film. From its tellingly sparse use of musical scoring (giving creaky vibrancy to the...

Woe betide anyone who turns up for Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff expecting anything like a typical Western. Languid, spare and dreamlike, other than the setting and the motif of a journey across vast, inhospitable stretches of America there's little else...

Sure feels like we've been waiting quite a spell on a trailer for Wendy and Lucy director Kelly Reichardt's western Meek's Cutoff. And now we've got it with a poster to boot. Gaining festival buzz from Venice to Toronto, New...

[With Meek's Cutoff now screening at Sundance we re-visit Aaron's earlier review from the New York Film Festival.]There is something deeply unsettling about Meek's Cutoff, a haunting feeling that grows with time, reaching back to the outset and tormenting the...

[Our thanks to Shelagh Rowan-Legg for the following review.]Everything and nothing happens in Kelly Reichardt's new film Meek's Cutoff. But that is precisely the point, and what makes this film a work of quiet genius. Unlike most tales of settlers...