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Sator (2019)

February 11, 2021February 12, 2021 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Sator was Sator, who was in charge of everything"

Posted in horror, streamingTagged Aurora Lowe, Gabe Nicholson, Jordan Graham, June Peterson, Michael Daniel, Rachel Johnson, Wendy Taylor

In The Earth (2021)

February 6, 2021February 7, 2021 Dave McAllister2 Comments

“It’s a psychological problem with humans – we want to make stories out of everything,”

Posted in horror, streaming, SundanceTagged Ben Wheatley, Clint Mansell, Dan Martin, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Joel Fry, Nick Gillespie, Reece Shearsmith

Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

“If you’d told me three days ago I’d be standing here with one arm and one testicle trying to reason with you bitches, I would have said ‘Impossible’ too!”

Posted in Samurai, streaming, Sundance, westernTagged Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Nicolas Cage, Sion Sono, Sofia Boutella, Tak Sakaguchi

The Dig (2021)

January 30, 2021February 26, 2021 Dave McAllister3 Comments

"From the first human handprint on a cave wall, we’re part of something continuous."

Posted in drama, streaming

Pieces of a Woman (2020)

January 9, 2021January 22, 2021 Dave McAllister4 Comments

"My daughter came into this world, for the time that she did. And I can’t bring her back."

Posted in drama, streamingTagged Benny Safdie, Ellen Burstyn, Iliza Shlesinger, Jimmie Fails, Kata Wéber, Martin Scorsese, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Shia LaBeouf, Vanessa Kirby

Strange Days (1995)

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"The issue's not whether you're paranoid, Lenny. I mean, look at this shit. The issue is whether you're paranoid enough."

Posted in action, blu ray / DVD, science fictionTagged Angela Bassett, James Cameron, Juliette Lewis, Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Gabriel, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Sizemore

Mank (2020)

December 4, 2020December 5, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"What did Marion ever do to deserve this?"

Posted in cinema, drama, streamingTagged Amanda Seyfried, Arliss Howard, Atticus Ross, Charles Dance, David Fincher, David O. Selznick, Gary Oldman, Herman Mankiewicz, Jack Fincher, John Houseman, Lily Collins, Louis B. Mayer, Marion Davies, Orson Welles, Tom Burke, Trent Reznor

Ronnie’s (2020)

October 21, 2020October 22, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"I really am grateful to the place because it just opened up another world for me."

Posted in cinema, documentary, musicTagged Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Oliver Murray, Ronnie Scott, Van Morrison

Possessor (2020)

October 16, 2020February 6, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"The longer she stays in, the greater the risk to her brain"

Posted in horror, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Andrea Riseborough, Brandon Cronenberg, Christopher Abbott, Dan Martin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland

The Human Voice (2020)

October 15, 2020October 21, 2020 Dave McAllister1 Comment

"It made me imagine my hand was wielding a knife and I was sticking it in you"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Jean Cocteau, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton

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