Max Reload and the Nether Blasters first published by VODzilla.co Meet Max Jenkins (Tom Plumley) – both a young orphaned Ferris Bueller-lookalike who lives in smalltown Middletown with his war veteran grandfather (Martin Kove), and a talented coder whose inability to work with others has held him back from getting the sort of work in…
Its title may suggest a kiddy monster movie, but writer/director Makoto Nagahisa’s feature debut We Are Little Zombies (Wî â Ritoru Zonbîzu) offers a rather different kind of child-oriented horror, where the ADHD ebullience and wild desultoriness of youthful energy serve, at least in part, to disguise a much deeper existential, explicitly Kafka-esque dread. We…
eXistenZ first published by Little White Lies, as the 57th entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “I don’t like it here. I don’t know what’s going on, we’re both stumbling around together in this unformed world whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly non-existent. Always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don’t understand.” ‘PR nerd’ Ted Pikul (Jude Law) is a…
Sequence Break first published by SciFiNow Graham Skipper will be best know to Fantasia audiences as the star of Joe Begos’ Almost Human (2013) and The Mind’s Eye (2015) and Jackson Stewart’s Beyond The Gates (2016) – all grimily nostalgic films steeped in the appearance and ethos of Eighties direct-to-video genre fare. It is a retro…