Wednesday, November 30, 2022

BLUES BROTHERS 2000 (1998)

 


Directed By: John Landis Written By: John Landis and Dan Aykroyd  Cinematography: David Herrington  Editor: Dale Beldin


Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Nia Peeples, J Evan Bonifant, Frank Oz, Darrell Hammond, B.B. King, Junior Wells, Aretha Franklin, Matt Murphy, Erykah Badu, Johnny Lang, Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett, Eric Clapton, Steve Lawrence, John Popper, Sam Moore, Paul Shaffer, Clarence Clemmons, Issac Hayes, Bo Diddley


Elwood, the now lone "Blues Brother" finally released from prison, is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops, led by Cabel the Curtis' son (and Elwood's step-brother), the Russian Mafia, and a militia group. On his new "mission from God" Elwood enlists the help of a young orphan, and a strip club bartender.

Saturday, November 26, 2022

FLUX GOURMET (2022)

 


Written & Directed By: Peter Strickland Cinematography: Tim Sidell Editor: Matyas Feketem 


Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Fatma Mohamed, Asa Butterfield, Ariane Labed, Gwendoline Christie, Richard Bremmer 

Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.

Friday, November 25, 2022

WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS (2011)

 


Written & Directed By: Declan O’Brien  Based on characters created by: Alan McElroy Cinematography: Michael Marshall  Editor: Stein Myhrstad 


Cast: Jenny Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Kaitlyn Wong, Terra Vnesa, Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene 

A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to three deformed cannibals.

Thursday, November 24, 2022

WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END (2007)

 


Directed By: Joe Lynch Written By: Al Septien & Turi Meyer Based On Characters Created By: Alan McElroy Cinematography: Robin Loewan  Editor: Ed Marx


Cast: Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins, Texas Battle, Aleska Palladino, Daniella Alonso, Crystal Lowe, Ken Krizinger, Steve Braun, Kimberly Caldwell

A group of reality show contestants find themselves fighting for survival against a family of hideously deformed inbred cannibals who plan to ruthlessly butcher them all.

Saturday, November 19, 2022

LAMB (2021)

 


Directed By: Vladimar Johannson  Written By: Vladimar Johnannson & Sjon  Cinematography: Eli Arenson  Editor: Agnieszka Glinska 


Cast: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snaer Guonason, Bjorn Hlymur Haraldsson 

A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

Friday, November 18, 2022

SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR (1997)

 


Directed By: Michael Cohn  Written By: Tom Szollosi & Deborah Serra Based on the story “SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS” By: Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm  Cinematography: Mike Southon  Editor: Ian Crafford 


Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena, Gil Bellows, David Conrad, Brian Glover, Anthony Brophy


In this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

X-MEN (2000)

 


Directed By: Bryan Singer Story By: Tom DeSanto & Bryan Singer Written By: David Hayter  Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel Editor: Kevin Stitt, John Wright & Steven Rosenblum 


Cast: Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Bruce Davison, Tyler Mane, Ray Park, 

In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.

Saturday, November 12, 2022

BECKY (2021)

 


Directed By: Jonathon Milott & Cary Murnion Written by: Ruckus Skye, Lane Skye & Nick Morris  Cinematography: Greta Zozula Editor: Alan Canant 


Cast: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet, Amanda Brugel, Ryan McDonald, James McDougall

A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Friday, November 11, 2022

THE PRINCESS (2022)

 


Directed By: Le-Van Kiet Written By: Ben Lustig & Jake Thornton  Cinematography: Lorenzo Senatore Editor: Alex Fenn


Cast: Joey King, Dominic Cooper, Olga Kurylenko, Veronica Ngo, Alex Reid, Ed Stoppard, Kristofer Kamiyasu

When a strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must save the kingdom.

Thursday, November 10, 2022

STRAIGHT EDGE KEGGER (2019)

 


Written, Directed & Edited By: Jason Zink

Cinematography: Elliott Abel & Christopher P. Purdy


Cast: Cory Kays, Evey Reidy, Julio Montenegro Jr., Sean Jones, Warren Aitken, Travis Manners, Joe Bachan, Jason Zink 

A young punk and a houseful of drunks square off against the gang of militant straight edgers that he's abandoned.

Saturday, November 5, 2022

NOT OKAY (2022)

 


Written & Directed By: Quinn Shephard Cinematography: Robby Baumgarten Editor: Mollie Goldstein 


Cast: Zoey Deutch, Mia Issac, Dylan O’Brien, Nadia Alexander, Embeth Daviditz, Tia Dionne Hodge, Brennan Brown, Karan Soni, Dash Perry, Sarah Yarkin 

An ambitious young woman finds followers and fame when she poses as the survivor of a deadly attack, but she soon learns that online notoriety comes with a terrible price.

Thursday, November 3, 2022

ISHTAR (1987)

 


Written & Directed By: Elaine May Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro Editor: Richard P. Girincione, Stephen A. Rotter & William Reynolds 

Cast: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston, Tess Harper, Carol Kane, David Marguiles, Aharon Ipale, Herb Gardner, Fred Melamed, Matt Frewer, Alex Hyde White 

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.