What would you get if you took out the water, shark, Oscar-caliber acting, solid script and overall power of Jaws and replaced it with a forest, a grizzly bear, C-grade acting, a script that was written by a crazy man and ended up with a film that has absolutely nothing going for it except laughs?  [...]

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I’ve never been a fan of films that have three or more stories running at the same time. Usually these films end up rushing to combine them all and make the film work. Now, tons of films use two stories that tie-in together, and I’m not calling out those films. For the most part, unless [...]

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The documentary details the plight of a small, isolated farming community in the mountain village of Junin when ore deposits are discovered underneath their land. Two mining companies attempt to take control of the area creating rifts between friends and families as one group fights against change and for their land, while the other [...]

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I was so impressed after watching Koji Wakamatsu’s Go, Go Second Time Virgin (review) that I’ve really made a point to seek out more of his work as well as read up on him as a director. Firstly, the man was a workhorse, much in the vein of Takashi Miike, making well over 35 [...]

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I am just doing my part to promote a movie that I am praying is as good as it seems. The film stars Zach Galifianakis and is deemed a high-concept comedy even though it treads some familiar ground. This is the first film by brothers Jared and Brandon Drake, but the buzz at the film-fests [...]

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I’m going to kick off this review with a little story I’m sure two of you may give a crap about. About eight or so years ago, I was insanely excited to see a film called Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts. Multiple reviews stated it was nasty, depraved and disturbing. In other words, something [...]

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Buried in an article on The Hollywood Reporter about Herzog and Lynch teaming up for My Son, My Son, which is huge news in itself (Lynch makes feature length films less and less often these days and Herzog was exceptionally brilliant in his heyday), THR failed to point out the importance of Lynch’s company, Absurda, [...]

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Indie horror film out of Atlanta about the plight of a group of people living in the in the city of Terminus. On New Years Eve, a signal begins mysteriously transmitting through televisions, phones and radio. This signal preys on a person’s fears and anyone who watches or listens to it is turned into [...]

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