BLUF: Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead is a pretty fun, well-made zombie that overstays its welcome, but would havebeen considered a masterpiece if it had come out closer to his 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Hollywood goes in cycles with genres, and zombies enjoyed a...
dir. Zack Snyder, starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, et al Written, directed, and shot by Snyder, Army of the Dead is at its core an ensemble heist film wrapped in the zombie genre. It's Snyder's first entry in his post-superhero phase that was met...
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD dir. Taylor Sheridan, starring Angelina Jolie, Finn Little, Nicholas Hoult, Aiden Gillen, et al Those Who Wish Me Dead follows a boy who witnesses the murder of his father and goes on the run in the Montana wildnerness to escape a pair...
LAPSIS dir. Noah Hutton, starring Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard Struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother, delivery man Ray takes a strange job in a strange new realm of the gig economy. In an near-future verion of New York, a technological revolution has begun...
THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS dir. Robert Machoian, starring Clayne Crawford, Sepideh Moafi, Chris Coy Separated from his wife and kids, David attempts to keep his family together while grappling with his wife's new relationship. A film that opens as one thing and closes as something entirely different,...
WRATH OF MAN dir. Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Hartnett, et al Some actors were born to work with certain directors. Think DeNiro and Scorsese, Jackson and Tarantino, Murry and Coppola. Such is the case with Jason Statham and director Guy Ritchie,...
OXYGEN dir. Alexandre Aja, starring Melanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi Melanie Laurent plays an amnesiac who wakes up in a cryogenic pod leaking air in Alexandre Aja's science fiction survival thriller. A young woman wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is...
LIMBO dir. Ben Sharrock, starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Oly Orebiyi, Kais Nashef, et al Limbo centers on four asylum seekers who are staying on a remote island in Scotland, and taking cultural awareness classes, while awaiting the processing of their refugee claims. Omar, a Syrian man who's...
WITHOUT REMORSE dir. Stefano Sollima, starring Michael B. Jordan, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, and Guy Pearce Adaptations of Tom Clancy's novels have been just as risky and hit-and-miss as adaptations of Stephen King works. Starting with the wildly successful and incredibly beloved The Hunt for Red October,...
MORTAL KOMBAT dir. Simon McQuoid, starring Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sanada, et al MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe. Back in 1995, fans...
