One Spoon of Chocolate had its world première at Tribeca 2025, 8 June “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” go the famous words of President Theodore Roosevelt – words that would become literalised in the true story of Buford Pusser, an ex-wrestler who decided, as sheriff, to curb rampant crime and corruption in McNairy…
After a brief 1991-set prologue in which the drinking, drug-taking and fornication of two teenagers (Dylan McEdward, Kaitlyn Bacon) are brought to a brutally murderous end by, yes, a clown in a cornfield, Eli Craig’s latest feature skips to the present day, where 17-year-old Quinn (Katie Douglas) is driving with her father Glenn (Aaron Abrams)…
Hot Fuzz first published by EyeforFilm, 6 Feb 2007 How do you follow up a runaway success like rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead (2004)? Well, the team that brought us television’s anarchic flat-sharing sit-com Spaced has come up with a simple answer: repeat the winning formula. For, like his Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright’s…
The Well had its UK première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2024. When shown in horror films like Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973), Pupi Avati’s The House With Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono, 1976), Adam Rehmeier and Domiziano Christopharo’s H. P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms (2013) and indeed now Federico Zampaglione’s latest…
Punch had its world première on Thurs 24th Aug at FrightFest Set in an unnamed English seaside town, and filmed in Hastings, East Sussex, Punch may come with all the trappings of English nostalgia – the cliffs, the beach, the fair, the pier, the fish and chips – but there is something rotten in this…
Jack Dignan’s After She Died may open with various evening shots, first exterior and then interior, of a multi-storeyed, modernist family home set on an enviably Edenic Australian waterfront – but there is trouble in paradise. As Jen (Liliana Ritchie) struggles to revise for her high school finals, she is distracted by the sound of…
Another WolfCop first published by SciFiNow “You’re a loser – it’s just a fact,” states ‘visionary business maverick’ Sydney Swallows (Yannick Bisson), at the beginning of Another WolfCop, looking directly into the camera as he films an ad spot to promote new product “Chicken Milk Stout”. Hawking beer to the low-rent citizens of smalltown Woodhaven, who…