Stage 6 Films
A spare eight-person cast and a skeleton crew operating during the 2020 lockdown in a remote part of Scotland have pulled off a fascinating examination of our own instincts and how forcefully we protect what belongs to us. From the era in which our film takes place to our modern era, not much has changed: […]
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What is a love song but a meditation about our heart’s yearnings? As such, Max Walker-Silverman’s debut film A Love Song is titled very appropriately, being about a woman’s journey up out of grief that has led her to a campsite by a lake. But we don’t know that right off the bat – like […]
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Author’s note: the MPA rating description claims “sexual content throughout” and “strong language,” but that’s not entirely true. I’ve seen male-fronted comedies receive PG-13s with the same language and situations found in The Broken Hearts Gallery, and the worst ratings factor those films got was “some crude language” or some other equally innocuous reason. At […]
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Typically, the January movie slate is full of either awards nominees or soon-to-be-forgotten films dumped hastily into theaters. Curiously, the new installment of The Grudge falls into neither of those categories, being an entertaining visit to familiar grounds. It winds up as the best of the Grudge films since the 2004 American remake, with an […]
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On first viewing, Them That Follow reads like a character study of a closed-off religious sect somewhere in the Appalachian mountains. Conflicts are dealt with in-house, no one goes for formal medical treatment, and worship is held in a barn-like structure. Also, writers/directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage have chosen to focus on a […]
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Growing up in the 1980s was a very fun time for horror fans like myself. Although my parents were vigilant about what kind of horror movies I was able to watch, my dad (with my mom’s consent) got my love for all things horror started with viewings of the network television versions of John Carpenter’s […]
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For 11 years, actor and writer Leigh Whannell has been scaring moviegoing audiences with his intense screenplays, creating two major powerhouse horror franchises with the Saw and Insidious films. Now, he steps behind the camera to direct for the first time with Insidious: Chapter 3, a prequel that takes place “A few years before the […]
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