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BOOKWORM Review: Sometimes Silly and Sometimes Serious Makes for a Fun Father-Daughter Adventure
Elijah Wood stars in Ant Timpson's family adventure.
Fantasia 2024 Review: BOOKWORM, A Parenting Adventure In The Wilderness
Early on in Bookworm, a doctor struggles to have a conversation with a child about her injured mother. The medical professional tries to ease the child’s anxiety and kind of makes a fool of himself, because the young girl just...
Fantasia 2024: Let Us Raise the Curtain on North America's Largest Genre Festival
The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 18 to August 4 in a hot hot hot Montreal. For those of us located in North America, it is one of our favourite times of the year. Due to its...
Sitges 2021 Méliès d'Or Awards: Prano Bailey-Bond's CENSOR Wins Best European Film
To European filmmakers few awards are as important in the genre community as the Méliès d’Or Awards. Tonight, Sitges hosted the Méliès d'Or awards ceremony and rewarded Prano Bailey-Bond's Censor the Best European Feature Film award, the Méliès d'Or . ...
CENSOR Trailer: Fiction Affects Reality in Prano Bailey-Bond's Debut Horror Film
A little behind on this one but still worth sharing. The trailer for Prano Bailey-Bond's bebut feature film, the video nasty era horror film Censor, came out yesterday. Along with it came a very nifty poster as well, which you...
Review: COME TO DADDY, Escalating Mayhem in Outlandish Father-Son Story
It is a joy to watch Elijah Wood give such a game performance in director Ant Timpson's outlandish father-son story.
Mayhem 2019: Final Films Announced, Led by COLOR OUT OF SPACE, DANIEL ISN`T REAL And GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR
Our friends at the Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, England, have revealed the complete lineup for this year's festival in October. So far this year they have announced that The Gangster, The Cop The Devil & The Pool, She...
Fantasia 2019 Review: COME TO DADDY Delights in Putting Elijah Wood Through The Ringer
I am drawn to father-son stories like a moth to flame. The difficult communication barriers, awkward processing of emotion. The silence and the rage. In the movies, these stories often culminate in the father expressing a deep pride or love...
Dublin International Film Festival Announces Lineup Featuring MAUDIE, FREE FIRE, IN LOCO PARENTIS and More
Dublin international Film Festival announced its full lineup today with the Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke starring folk artist biopic Maudie set to open proceedings on February 16. Along with a sizable selection of International films and guests, there'll be...
MonsterFest 2016: A Gunfight, Deadly Relatives and an Autopsy Lead First Wave of Titles
MonsterFest is coming! Prepare yourselves, Melbourne, Australia, for your fill of fantastic film delights at the end of November. The first wave of titles was announced today and there are heaps of goodness coming to Melbs. Attendees will see...
Toronto 2016: "F##K The Small Talk, Let's Buy Some Guns" in Trailer For FREE FIRE
While we await word from our Anarchist-on-the-Ground Ryland about last night's premiere of Ben Wheatley's Free Fire A24 just dropped the trailer for it. Take a look for yourself. But beware, it be loaded with guns, violence and colorful language. ...
TANK 432: Check The Trailer And Poster For Wheatley Produced Thriller
Kill List and High Rise director Ben Wheatley takes on an executive producer role for upcoming UK thriller Tank 432 from director Nick Gillespie. Gillespie and Wheatley's relationship is a long one with Gillespie having served as part of the...
Stephen Graham And Michael Smiley Star In Gritty UK Drama ORTHODOX
Director David Leon dives into the intersection of the UK's Orthodox Jewish community and the criminal underworld with his upcoming Orthodox and it's more than just the surprising clash of world's that makes this one interesting.Anchoring the cast are Stephen...
FREE FIRE: Ben Wheatley's Next Is Underway, See Who Rounds Out The Cast
Filming began on Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire yesterday and Deadline has an update on the cast. The film is already bolstered by a really good cast to start; Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Wheatley alumnus Michael...
Richard Madden And Michael Smiley Enter GROUP B
A pair of very familiar faces enter a very different sort of world with Richard Madden (Game Of Thrones) and Michael Smiley (Luther, Kill List) taking the leads in Nick Rowland's Group B.Rally driver Shane Hunter is facing his comeback...
Martin Scorsese To Exec Produce Ben Wheatley's FREE FIRE
Martin Scorsese has come aboard British director Ben Wheatley's next project, Free Fire, as an executive producer, Screen Daily has revealed. Set in late-70s Boston, the film is the story of two rival gangs, whose rendezvous in a deserted warehouse...
Ben Wheatley Enters The Action Arena With FREE FIRE
What next for Ben Wheatley? With production wrapped on his adaptation of JG Ballard's High Rise the prolific UK auteur will be moving next into the action arena with Free Fire.An original script revolving around a 1978 arms deal gone...
Ben Wheatley Talks A FIELD IN ENGLAND, Destiny, And His Characters
I first became aware of Ben Wheatley when I was assigned to write an essay on his film Down Terrace (2009) for Magill's Cinema Annual. What struck me while watching it was how carefully balanced and powerful it was and...
Second Shot From Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND Heralds Unique Release Strategy
You don't have to look remarkably hard to find a cadre of loyal fans who would have you believe that Ben Wheatley - director of Sightseers and Kill List - is the future of British filmmaking. The man has built...
ScreenAnarchy's KILL LIST Review Roundup
Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace was a dark, weird, funky, concoction with some of the blackest comedy (and least penetrable accents) I'd seen and heard in recent years. So when Mr. Wheatley's followup film, Kill List was scheduled for its World...
