Gus Van Sant returns with “Dead Man’s Wire”, the director’s first feature film in nearly eight years. His latest is a crime thriller that’s inspired by the real-life Indianapolis hostage crisis involving Tony Kiritsis. On February 8, 1977, a desperate and deranged Kiritsis entered Meridian Mortgage Company after falling behind on his real estate mortgage … Continue reading
“Night Patrol” shouldn’t be confused with the 1984 comedy of the same name that could be called a “Police Academy” knockoff if the two films hadn’t released mere months apart. No, this is a much different animal – a movie that defies categories. It’s as if you threw multiple genres and sub-genres into a blender … Continue reading
Searchlight Pictures is bringing the heartwarming “Rental Family” to home video. Directed and co-written by Hikari, the film sees Brendan Fraser in a role he was meant to play. The touching yet warmly comical premise has Fraser playing a struggling American actor living in Japan who gets a peculiar job that gives him a new … Continue reading
Writer-director Tom Botchii serves up a genre smorgasbord with his new film, “Relentless”. It’s fun to even consider the various thrillers it qualifies as. For starters it’s an action thriller, a revenge thriller, a psychological thriller, even a home invasion thriller. It dips its toe into exploitation cinema. It sometimes plays like a bruising character … Continue reading
Last night the Hollywood Foreign Press brought us the 83rd Golden Globes Awards. 2025 was a peculiar year for movies and that translated to the Globes broadcast. Sadly, we once again have one invincible movie being pushed through every awards show. Along with it comes several winners that were just as easy to predict. But … Continue reading
After spending nearly two months cramming everything from big studio prestige films to small moody indies for award season consideration, it’s nice to recline back and take in an unashamed genre blast like “Primate”. Make no mistake, this bonkers horror confection knows exactly what it is and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. The … Continue reading
Keith & the Movies 