By Catherine Erskine When I went in to see Abigail, I was worried. So many films have tried the horror/thriller with a twist of comedy route and flopped. But Abigail hits the nail on the head. (Or, should I say, the stake through the heart.) Written by Stephen Sheild and Guy Buscik, Abigail is a…
By Robert Bellissimo “Je, Tu, Il, Elle” was Chantal Akerman’s debut feature film from 1974. She co-wrote the script with Eric De Kuyper, and Paul Paquay. Chantal is also the star of the film, alongside Niels Arestrup, and Claire Wauthion. The film is about a young woman named Julie, (Chantal Akerman) and is told in…
By Catherine Erskine Directed by Pamela Adlon and written by Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz, Babes is a no holds barred look at friendship, pregnancy and what keeps people together when their lives are on two very different paths. Eden (Ilana Glazer) plays the single and impulsive best friend to Dawn (Michelle Buteau). Dawn is…
By Robert Bellissimo Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story is a moving portrait of the incredible R&B singer Jackie Shane who was one of the first black transgender performers. On the edge of stardom, she disappeared. What happened to her? This new documentary, which will be playing at the Hot Docs festival, explores her life and…
By Robert Bellissimo Writer/Director Liliana Cavani based The Night Porter on real events. She had been making a documentary for Italian TV on prison camps when she met a woman who was a concentration camp survivor, whose lover was an SS Nazi Officer. He had been executed by the Americans. This woman had moved to…
by Robert Bellissimo Edge Of The City (1957) was expanded from the 1955 live-for-televison play, “A Man Is Ten Feet Tall”, which was specifically written for Sidney Poitier. It broke ground at the time for depicting a close friendship between a black man and a white man. Integration was a hot topic then, and the film couldn’t…
By Adam Kline In 1993, in small town Kentucky, a hairdresser hears the story of a local family stricken by grief and struggling to pay their bills. The father, recently widowed, with two young girls is burdened by medical bills because his youngest is ill and in desperate need of a liver transplant. The hairdresser,…
By Catherine Erskine While people are focusing on the intensity of Five Nights at Freddy’s, it’s nothing compared to its fans. From full costumes (some of which were very creative and cool) to very…… assertive young people controlling the movements of those in line who dare to look like they are moving forward before them….
By Catherine Erskine As you know, I love horror movies, especially possession ones, even if they make me sleep with a light on. (Alright fine, they all do. But movies about possession means that I need an extra bright nightlight!) As their feature film debut, Talk to Me is directed by Danny and Michael Philippou…
By Catherine Erskine Executive produced by Bruce Campbell (the OG Ash himself), along with the amazing Sam Raimi, Evil Dead Rise brings the horror of Book of the Dead into an updated, urban nightmare. This disturbing ride is so fueled with terror that it left me—at 42 years of age—sleeping with a light on…. (Seriously.) Evil Dead…
