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Jan 13, 2025 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Elliott Cuff
Alarum takes too many spy action movie tropes and messily blends them together, culminating in a mixed bag attempt at repurposing a winning formula.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Elliott Cuff
As gloomy campfire horror done right, John Carpenter’s The Fog leans on a strong sense of atmosphere and an excellent synth score to amplify our fear of the unknown.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Philip Bagnall |Kathryn Miller |Megan Fisher |Elliott Cuff
We interview Conclave producer Michael Jackman to discuss how to choose good films, avoiding trouble with the Vatican, and how to forget politics and have fun. Among the potential nominees of this year’s awards season, Conclave is possibly the most ambitious from a narrative point of view. It’s a thriller, a character study, and a metaphor all at once.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Kathryn Miller |Megan Fisher |Elliott Cuff |Roberto Ortiz
Hiccup, Astrid and Toothless are returning to the big screen, but this time, in live-action. Here is everything we know about the How to Train Your Dragon live action adaptation. Time to fly back to Berk. The highly acclaimed 2010 animated Dreamworks film How to Train Your Dragon, like many other animated features in recent years, is getting a live action adaptation.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Megan Fisher |Elliott Cuff |Roberto Ortiz |Branyan Towe
We interview star Yolonda Ross about her role in Absolution, working with Liam Neeson, getting her start as a background extra for SNL, and how music helps her acting process. At the beginning of Absolution, the new crime thrillerdirected by Hans Petter Moland, we are taken to a dingy Boston dive bar. Woman (Yolonda Ross) is immediately taken by Thug (Liam Neeson) after he punches out her loutish, violent boyfriend.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Elliott Cuff |Roberto Ortiz |Branyan Towe |Keeley Brooks
Idle Hands is a quirky mixture of slapstick comedy and horror tropes that melds together seamlessly, and it remains deserving of its cult favourite status. Director: Rodman FlenderGenres: Horror, Teen, Zombie, Stoner Comedy, Body HorrorRun Time: 92′U.S. Release: April 30, 1999U.K. Release: November 5, 1999Where to Watch: on digital & VODRodman Flender’s Idle Hands makes me yearn for a time I’ve never known.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
loudandclearreviews.com | Roberto Ortiz |Elliott Cuff |Branyan Towe |Keeley Brooks
In A Great Divide, a Korean American family faces racism and xenophobia in Wyoming while confronting loss, love, and redemption. Director: Jean ShimGenre: DramaRun Time: 100′U.S. Release: November 26, 2024U.K. Release: TBAWhere to Watch: on digital and on demandFew films tackle racism and xenophobia with the intimacy of A Great Divide.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
t.ly | Louis Roberts |Elliott Cuff |Roberto Ortiz |Branyan Towe
Amy Adams transforms into a dog in the big-screen adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s Nighbitch, a wickedly funny satire of modern motherhood. Director: Marielle HellerGenre: Comedy, Drama, HorrorRun Time: 98′TIFF Screening: September 8, 2024U.S. Release Date: December 6, 2024 (limited, theatrical)U.K. Release Date: TBA‘What fresh hell awaits you today?’ asks Amy Adams’ Mother (as stated in the credits, she is pointedly unnamed throughout the film) to the woman looking back at her in the mirror.
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May 7, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Elliott Cuff
Feature By: Elliott CuffThere’s a reason so many people still relish returning to their action favourites from the ’90s. Cinema had flourished in the decade prior, and the ’90s continued to elevate the action blockbuster, pushing high-concept stories, exhilarating spectacle and freshly minted movie stars into the stratosphere. CGI did enter the conversation but had yet to reach overload status, allowing filmmakers to combine innovative visual effects with practical set pieces to glorious results.
