NewsHorror
The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
At the height of the London Blitz, a class of children are evacuated from the city and boarded at Eel Marsh house. Big…
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May 2015
NewsScifi
Mad Max: Fury Road (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
With a staccato of visual images and strange ideas, George Miller co-writes and directs the first new ‘Mad Max’ film in thirty years.…
NewsScifi
Time Lapse (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
‘Time Lapse’ offers a nifty little time paradox story. Three people in their early twenties manage an apartment building. They discover that one…
April 2015
NewsScifi
Ex Machina (2015) film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘Ex Machina’ is written and directed by Alex Garland. From the world’s most powerful Internet company, software engineer Caleb has been chosen to…
March 2015
ReviewFilms
Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (2014) (film review).
Riggan, an actor, is famous for having played the popular but not very challenging role of Birdman several years earlier. Now he is…
NewsFilms
Sleep Dealer (2008) (a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper).
In what is perhaps twenty years into the future, a small village near Oaxaca is dying because a foreign corporation has bought and…
NewsHorror
The Walking Deceased (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
‘The Walking Deceased’ is a wildly uneven zombie film parody. It takes a lot of pot shots at other familiar films, zombie and…
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Walter (2015) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
In what is more an extended situation than an actual story, we meet Walter, a ticket-taker at the local multiplex who happens to…
February 2015
NewsFilms
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) (film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Matthew Vaughn directs, co-produces, and co-authors a script about a super-special branch of the British Secret Service. Sending up the James Bond films…
NewsHorror
Digging Up The Marrow (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Written, directed and co-produced by the main actor playing himself is Adam Green. He’s making a documentary about a man who has discovered…
December 2014
NewsFilms
The Imitation Game (2014) :a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
Benedict Cumberbatch, one of the busiest actors in filmmaking, turns in a bravura performance as computer theoretician and code-breaker Alan J. Turing who…
ReviewCulture
Inside The Mind Of Leonardo (2014) (film review).
There is much that is captivating and compelling in this study into the mind of one of history’s great geniuses. ‘Inside The Mind…