Filmmaker interview by Jason Knight For those who haven’t seen it yet, what is Dual Action about? Dual Action is a short story about a dying gangster, confronted by two mysterious figures in his final moments. It’s sort of a Reservoir Dogs meets Christmas Carol type of story, where the main character is forced to…
“Show some respect, he’s an icon!” “Respect?! We just dug him up!” OutThere McFilms & High Octane Ent. have released an official UK trailer for a crime comedy titled Stealing Chaplin, inspired by real events. Two wacky Las Vegas-based con men dig up and steal the corpse of comedian Charlie Chaplin in order to ransom…
Barry Levinson’s “Young Sherlock Holmes,” a prequel story about the legendary detective’s student years, never graduated to true cult movie status and it’s a wonder why. Released in 1985, when producer Steven Spielberg had his name and influence on every project that bared his moniker (the first onscreen title is “Steven Spielberg Presents”), it was…
With her flaming red hair and lush figure, Rhonda Fleming was one of the most beautiful women in movies in the 1950s. She was sometimes known, like her fellow redhead Maureen O’Hara, as the Queen of Technicolor, a label she found limiting, though Fleming herself said that she preferred color to the black and white…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…
★★★★★ Directed by: #ShelbyBaldock Written by: #NoahCLekas Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #RonGephart Short Film Review by: Corey Bulloch Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’“I’ll be damned if the good Lord didn’t put me here to be more than a notebook” A beautiful fire of…
★★★ Directed by #KennethVazquez Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #ZayRodriguez Starring ,#ColinGaffney, #AshanDowling Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by ,,Lawrence Bennie https://youtu.be/KDPRWEqM1OE Nobody likes nuisance phone-calls. They’re intrusive, insensitive and, more often than not, totally irrelevant. But what if the constant…
★★★★ Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm Starring: Mads Mikkelson, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang. Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by Robert Stayte Thomas Vinterberg is probably Denmark’s most well-known director,…
★★★ Written and Directed by: #ToddMontesi Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #ToddMontesi, #KenzieKlem and #JosephLewisDixon Short film review by: Brian Penn Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’With a myriad of digital platforms at our fingertips it’s all too easy for hidden gems to slip…
★★ Directed by: #RichMallery Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #RichMallery Starring: #NicoleDAngelo, #ChristinaLo, #ChrisSpinelli Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Indie Film Review by: #TomWilmot Psychological thriller Sinful is the second feature film from writer-director Rich Mallery. Any movie set in one location usually…
When Yon Shimizu heard the news that Japanese forces had bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he was on his hands and knees, scrubbing his family’s linoleum floor. Living in a rented house in Victoria, British Columbia, with his sister, two brothers, and their widowed mother, he was listening to the radio while completing his…
As drivers near the corner of Mountain Road and Emerald Valley Lane in Bernards Township, they’ll come upon a tree that rises from the brush. At sunset, it becomes a dark silhouette against the field that stretches behind it. Known as the Devil’s Tree, the oak is believed to have sinister powers, cursing anyone who…
★★★ Directed by: Nathalie Moreira Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight The 8th of December 2020 will mark the fortieth anniversary of John Lennon’s passing. Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Lennon was an English singer, songwriter and peace activist and known…
Watching Harry Macqueen’s sophomore film Supernova is like hugging someone you love for the last time. It is a warm, rapturous embrace, but one that is filled with immeasurable sadness. It is not a SUPERNOVA or hard-edged experience, but a pleasant one; so pleasant, in fact, that you never want it to end. It is…
Premiering this weekend at the 2020 Sitges Film Festival, The Old Ways, from director Christopher Alender, is a horror film that takes you below the equator and into the jungle of forgotten traditions. Cleverly balancing the elements of horror with its deeply relevant and urgent themes, The Old Ways is sure to satisfy both viewer…
Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings follows a young pickpocket in his first night at the “MACA”, one of the main prisons in Abidjan, the largest city in the Ivory Coast. As the Ivory Coast’s entry for International Feature Film at this upcoming Academy Awards, Night of the Kings has the power and storytelling to…
Jumbo will go down in film history, somewhat unfairly, as the movie in which Noémie Merlant fucks an amusement park ride. The film, a French-Belgian co-production I saw at Nightstream’s Virtual Film Festival, has a funny premise, but there’s real pathos beneath that conceit, coaxed out by Merlant’s graceful performance and beautiful, measured direction from…
“Each one of these stones from darker worlds has its own story. And the bigger ones have changed entire landscapes.” Apple has unveiled the first official trailer for Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, the latest documentary made by Werner Herzog, and co-directed by volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer (also seen in Into the Inferno). This recently premiered…
Thanks to its long history, the city of Rome is full of archaeological remains from many different eras. While the most famous ones, like the Colosseum or the Pantheon date back to the golden age of the Roman Empire, the city dates back many centuries. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe traditional…
“Imagine if it were like that with everything that’s beautiful. One minute it’s there. And then it’s gone.” Peccadillo Pics in the UK has released a UK trailer for the German coming-of-age / sexual awakening drama Cocoon, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Kreuzberg is Nora’s microcosm. The silent observer, she’s…
French Exit, from director Azazel Jacobs, is a film I shouldn’t like, yet can’t resist. There’s a quirky awkwardness interwoven throughout the film’s premise and character interactions that lends itself to a strange, unique narrative. The appeal to separate one’s self mirrors the high-class society that has turned its back on the fallen family, whose…