DEATH OF A UNICORN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Alex Scharfmann Stars: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E Grant, Tea Leoni, Will Poulter, Jessica Hynes, Steve Park, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani. Corporate lawyer Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) is driving through the Canadian Rockies to visit his boss Odell Leopold (Richard E Grant), the head of a large pharmaceutical company. Odell is dying of cancer, and …
THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
THE RULE OF JENNY PEN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: James Ashcroft Stars: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, George Henare, Ginette McDonald, Ian Mune, Thomas Sainbury, Maaka Pohatu, Hilary Norris. This bizarre, offbeat and slightly bonkers low budget psychological horror drama from New Zealand is largely set within the confines of the Royal Pine Mews nursing home. Arrogant judge Stefan Mortensen …
THE MONKEY
THE MONKEY Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Osgood Perkins Stars: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Elijah Wood, Sarah Levy, Rohan Campbell, Osgood Perkins, Adam Scott, Danica Dreyer, Nicco Del Rio, Shafin Karim. This enjoyable blackly comic splatter horror film is another film featuring a possessed killer toy, a subgenre that has included films such as Child’s Play and M3gan. …
COMPANION
COMPANION Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Drew Hancock Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, Rupert Friend, Jaboukie Young-White, Matthew J. McCarthy, Marc Menchaca, Woody Fu. It is best to approach the sci-fi horror comedy Companion without knowing too much about it beforehand so as not to ruin its many surprises. The film opens with a black screen and …
PRESENCE
PRESENCE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Soderbergh Stars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang, West Mulholland, Julia Fox. Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is a low budget supernatural haunted house tale that could be a distant cousin of the supernatural Paranormal Activity series. But unlike those films, which drew upon the found footage aesthetic, in Presence all of the …
WOLF MAN
WOLF MAN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Leigh Whannell Stars: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Benedict Hardie, Sam Jaeger, Zac Chandler, Leigh Whannell, Ben Prendergast. This is the latest entry in Universal’s so-called Dark Universe, with plans to remake some of the classic horror films from the 1930s and 40s and give them a contemporary makeover that taps into today’s science and …
