SHELL: PRAWNOGRAPHIC FUN

Pulchritudinous. It sounds dirty but it means pretty. It’s a word that Kate Hudson’s character, Zoe Shannon is enamoured of in Max Minghella’s SHELL.

Superior B picture in the vein of The Substance, SHELL takes its name from the

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FRANKENSTEIN: LATEST ADAPTATION IMPRESSIVLEY EPIC

Scale works better” says Victor Frankenstein, on why larger cadavers are his choice of corpse patchwork quilting in Guillermo del Torro’s long gestating adaptation of the Mary Shelley’s legendary book.

The latest in this unending series of cinematic renderings

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AFTER THE HUNT : CONFRONTING COMPELLING CINEMA

Luca Guadagnino is known for his provocative  fixation on sensuality,  desire and obsession,  and with this movie he has amassed a compelling  ensemble  led by Julia Roberts who is given her most charged  role in years.

Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, …

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TRON : ARES : NOT WORTH BOOTING UP

A race is on between tech companies; ENCOM and Dillinger Systems, to be the first to access the digital plain of existence known as The Grid and use it to benefit the physical world. While ENCOM’s CEO, Eve (played by …

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FAMILIAR TOUCH: DIMENSIONS

That old devil dementia, the mind and memory trickster, is playing merry hell with Ruth Goldman, widowed retired cook and mother of her only child, her son, Steve.

She’s getting ready for a date, getting finicky about what to wear,

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