Colin Biggs

1 week ago | thatshelf.com | Colin Biggs

Meelad Moaphi’s feature film debut, His Father’s Son, premiered at the Canadian Film Festival (CFF), drawing praise for its authentic portrait of an Iranian-Canadian family and their struggles after an unexpected inheritance arrives. Moaphi’s film also won the Best Direction in a Feature and the Audience Award at the Reel Asian Film Festival. The film hasn’t gotten much press since, but this week’s theatrical release should rectify that.

3 weeks ago | thatshelf.com | Colin Biggs

David Midell, known for more humanist fare like NightLights and The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, is a surprising choice to helm an exorcism movie. With no films of that type to his name, one assumes he must have had a great pitch. Unfortunately, what Midell lacks in experience, he makes up by referencing other (better) films. William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is the gold standard for the genre.

1 month ago | thatshelf.com | Colin Biggs

Evil clowns are back, baby! After the success of Terrifier, Hollywood is gearing up for more killer clowns. Based on Adam Cesare’s popular YA series (three books published and just waiting for sequels), Clown in a Cornfield hit a sweet spot with readers looking for throwback horror similar to R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books and Christopher Pike’s novels. In this case, a new kid moves to a small town where something doesn’t feel right. Terror ensues.

1 month ago | thatshelf.com | Colin Biggs

“Born in a storm way out to sea. Brewing and churning for days, weeks, months, sometimes even years, and it’s all building to this breaking point – short sharp shock of violence on the shore – and you either surf it or you get wiped out.” Thus, Nicolas Cage‘s unnamed surfer character tells his unnamed teenage son (Finn Little) in The Surfer. Cage can’t believe his son’s apathetic reaction.

Mar 20, 2025 | thatshelf.com | Colin Biggs

The prevailing feeling throughout The Alto Knights‘ is that it should’ve been made 20 years ago. While mob figures like Vito Genovese and Frank Costello used to be in the public lexicon, those names have faded into the pages of history. Even Jimmy Hoffa, a man whose mysterious death was a source of tabloid fodder for years, barely registered with the public when The Irishman debuted in 2019. These are the forgotten names from a bygone era.