Hunted (2020 | Belgium | 87 minutes | Vincent Paronnaud) Hunted, a brand-new thriller debuting on Shudder today, takes what could’ve been …
Author: Tony Kay
Tony’s Favorite Movies of 2020
Like most of you reading this, I spent a lot of 2020 sequestered in my place, watching movies. And while I didn’t …
There are Dire Consequences to Doing Anything for Jackson
Anything for Jackson (2020 | Canada | 97 minutes | Justin G. Dyck) Anything for Jackson begins with the most picturesque of …
The Romanian Film Festival Perseveres in 2020
I’ve been following the Romanian Film Festival for several years now, happily. It’s easily been one of the most worthwhile film fests …
On Stream and Blu-ray: Sleepless Beauty Paints a Pretty Ugly Picture
Sleepless Beauty (2020 | Russia | 84 minutes | Pavel Khvaleev) If Sleepless Beauty saw release two decades ago, its attempts at …
There’s Familiar Fun to be Had in Shortcut
Of the small handful of feature films that have been rolled out in theaters and drive-ins in recent weeks, Shortcut (which opens …
The Ugly Truth Comes to Light in The Swerve
The Swerve | 2020 | United States | 95 minutes | Dean Kapsalis To a non-fan of horror cinema, the notion of …
Triumph and Trauma drive the Nail in the Coffin
Nail in the Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro (Canada| 86 minutes | Michael Paszt) It’s cliché as all get-out, but …
Get Duked! (or Die Trying)
Get Duked! (2019 | United Kingdom | 87 minutes | Ninian Doff) Get Duked! (streaming on Amazon Prime beginning today) is one …
Teen Romance Wears its Chemical Hearts on its Sleeve
Chemical Hearts (2020 | USA | 93 minutes | Richard Tanne) One of the strange side effects wrought by the ugly shadow …