Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive is a film that doesn’t let up. The intense cat-and-mouse thriller from IFC Midnight...
I have always been a fan of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series and going into Fede Álvarez’s film...
Don Coscarelli, creator of the cult-favorite Phantasm series, has advice for people who want to get into independent film. In his book, True Indie, Don says that “An indie filmmakers reach needs to exceed his grasp,” and if you’re familiar with the practical effects Don uses to make his surreal films, you can...
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Is it because we know Keanu Reeves to be a stoic, benevolent, quasi-Buddhist Canadian that makes his turn as the...
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I can’t remember how old I was when I saw Cannibal Holocaust (1980) for the first (and only) time. I...
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I wasn’t aware of the prominence of Christianity in South Korea, but according to a quick Google search, close to a third of the population identify as Christians. The question came up when watching Kim Joo-hwan’s The Divine Fury, a religious action thriller about a man who loses his faith,...
Recently on the NOFS podcast, our lovely hosts reviewed Starship Troopers, directed by the enigmatic Paul Verhoeven. Whenever one discusses Starship...
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There is no greater crime syndicate in cinema (or life, for that matter) than The Yakuza, which makes them the...
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Don’t you hate it when your routine prison transfer of dangerous murderers goes horribly awry and your entire team winds up dead? Things didn’t go so well for John Cusack and his airplane of death row inmates (+ 1 wholesome, long-haired Nicolas Cage) in Con Air (1997). The plan went...
Join your horror hosts Kim & Jon as they take a sci-fi/action/gun-fu detour into the wild world of 1997’s Face/Off....
Who hasn’t felt a shiver down their spine at the thought of being cornered with no way out? Dive into...
