The Last Stop in Yuma County first published by VODzilla.co, 17 Jan 2025 In Arizona, Yuma is both a city and a county, but in a film title, the name is a shorthand evocation of a particular genre. For what Lesley Selander’s Fort Yuma (1955), Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma (1957, and James Mangold’s 2007…
We Need to Do Something had its UK première at Celluloid Screams 2021 “Hell is other people,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in No Exit (Huis clos, 1944), his play about a trio of ideologically incompatible people trapped in a room together for eternity. A similar principle underlies Sean King O’Grady’s We Need To Do Something, adapted…
VFW first published by SciFiNow Every night, a group of ageing American ex-army men from the Vietnam – and in one case the Korean – War gathers at dingy VFW Post 2494, run by their fellow soldier Fred Parras (Stephen Graham). Together, they knock back a few drinks, share some old combat stories, and engage…
The Vast of Night is mediated, and somebody is watching. Framed as a monochrome episode on Paradox Theater, a Twilight Zone-like television show “found only in a frequency caught between logic and myth”, and set in (fictive) Cayuga, New Mexico in the 1950s, Andrew Patterson’s accomplished feature debut follows two young people who work in…