MARLOWE is a thematic, mystifying, aesthetic riddle rather than a gumshoe “gripping noir crime thriller” being pitched, marketed, publicized and set to release in a fashionable grand style today, February 13, in Big Apple’s AMC Empire 25, Lincoln…
The Critics Rave: “Haunting, horrific and harrowing” – “Chronicle of omen and doom” – “Unspeakable primal terror” – “Disturbing and awe inspiring” – “Horrifying, hallucinatory journey” – “Gorgeous hellscape of raw, nerve-shredding performances” – “On track to become the next…
Despite jail-time, 12-step programs and five marriages, Annie played by Annie Pisapia begins an acting career because of a close encounter of a whacky kind with a director she meets at a Burger King in Queens, NYC. Definitely head spinning. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
THE STALKING FIELDS writers and director use an inimitable story-telling style I’m tempted to regard as unique because of the surprising way so many film elements coalesced coherently. It easy to image that in the hands of other filmmakers it easily could have been a cheesy romp of a B movie. Cleverly controlled and measured frenzy throughout the film adds to its virtuosity. – By Gregg W. Morris
A powerful shaman, Antonio Poyju (played by actor Germán De Silva), is locked away in an asylum as evil demonic forces threaten to take control of Argentina. He must escape the psychiatric hospital and find his daughter, Helena Poyju (played by actress Lorena Vega); their combined powers could save Argentina. But … Helena has forgotten her powers! Antonio must reteach her the ways of magic. Potential audience should know: LEGIONS has oodles of nattily done comedial scenes and vignettes and a head-spinning, out of this world, phantasmagoric ending. Review by Gregg W. Morris.
BACK TO THE WHARF (2020), directed by Chinese Filmmaker Li Xiaofeng, scheduled for North American VOD release January 17, 2023 is, 1, a gem of epic proportions with an a riveting plot that never ceases to thicken; it unfolds like a kinetically charged Rubik’s Cube; 2, superb acting and fascinating characters in unforgettable roles; 3, cinematography fabulous and profound; and 4, a soul-stirring, elegiac film score with a brooding trumpet that can pierce the coldest heart. Review by Gregg W. Morris
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we shouldn’t go at all,” Pauline Kale was quoted as saying. And Roger Elbert, author of “Your Movie Sucks,” once acknowledged that some of his fans confided in him their need sometimes to see really bad movies even though the reasons were never explained. This reviewer believed those comments needed to be aired before he got into the guts of the review of first time director Zach Koepp’s 77-minute-long THE WILLOWBROOK, which was released on digital early in November.
Good horror films can make us twist and turn in our seats and cringe, wince, slink down in the same seats where we are twisting and turning and hiding for any kind of relief possible from what on the screen is scaring the bejesus out of us. Review by Gregg W. Morris
Duke Ellington: “Don’t mean a thing if it don’t have that swing.” SHADY GROVE comes up short on swing – but that doesn’t mean that a cult following couldn’t be in the works for a film that in many years from now could become regarded as a classic.
– Review by Gregg W. Morris
Maria Demeshkina Peek [responding to a question about what else they were doing]: … we are presently working on creating educational modules for schools that would be five minute videos that explain the story of a survivor from different perspectives.…