THE VAST OF NIGHT is available on Amazon Prime. There’s nothing new in the essentials of THE VAST OF NIGHT, yet everything about it feels unique. It captures small town sleepiness, paranoia, wonder, and fear in a way that hasn’t felt this alive since Spielberg riveted our imaginations
THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW premieres August 7, but Teatteri Union is hosting a sneak preview July 23. Andy Mitton’s sombre horror thriller is modest in budget, but with enough inventive chills to more than make up for it. Deeply in love with the genre, it’s a classic
Returning for its fourth and final season, ROOM 104 is an anthology collection of short films each set in the titular motel room somewhere deep in the heart of Americana. Each short depicts different scenarios, ranging from comedy to horror to full on surrealism, where an assortment of characters react
Shot during the quarantine period early in spring 2020, AT HOME FINLAND collects together a variety of slices of life shots about living in isolation in this period of time. These range from film pastiches to family melodrama and oddball comedy. While some of them struggle to maintain interest throughout
The Arthurian legend is so ubiquitous that it appears in some shape in nearly every story found on the planet. The myth of the sword in the stone, the knights of the round table, and the wizard Merlin are such powerful archetypes they define entire conventions of storytelling. So naturally
Directed by Alex Winter, a former child actor himself, SHOWBIZ KIDS is an earnest and compassionate look at growing up within the media machine that is Hollywood. It’s not particularly revealing, and it pulls punches more than happily, but it is a well timed reminder that the people entertaining
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★★★★ | Hit ahoy
Ghost of Tsushima
★★★★★ | Out now on PlayStation 4 Once Upon a Time Open world games are challenging. After all, how do you populate an entire world, regardless of size, with enough exciting things to do throughout dozens of hours without getting repetitive? Few in memory have managed that feat, despite filling their maps
Based on the 1938 novel by Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a weird attempt at bringing philosophy to the screen in a way that feels neither new or brave. Instead it sits at a crossroads of being half WESTWORLD and half an essay of material it neither cares for
The future is bleak… and red, for some reason. Set in the dystopian cyber megacity Rengkok, RUINER puts you in the boots of Puppy, an ultra-violent killer on the hunt for a man they call the Boss. On the hunt, you’re contacted by a woman simply known as Her,
Desperados 3
The Frontier at the end of the 1800s. The expansion of the west has reached its zenith, and much of the old way of life is fading fast. In the blitz of new forces rising into power, John Cooper chases his nemesis and demon, the mysterious Frank, across the last
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★★ | Old hat
