Stars: John Pollono, Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, Ciara Bravo, Jordana Spiro, Spencer House | Written and Directed by John Pollono
Well this going to be the shortest review I ever write… Small Engine Repair is as close to perfection as it gets. 5 out of 5. Told you shortest review ever… Actually I need to dig deeper into the film!
Based on a play of the same name written by director and leading man John Pollono, Small Engine Repair tells the story of Frank (Pollono), Swaino (Bernthal) and Packie (Whigham). Three friends from small-town nowhere that have always been there for each other. We first meet our boys as Frank’s daughter Crystal (Ciara Bravo) has found out she is heading to university. One thing is for sure the love these men have for Crystal is unshakeable. After a night out to celebrate the bond between our boys becomes somewhat strained. We jump...
Well this going to be the shortest review I ever write… Small Engine Repair is as close to perfection as it gets. 5 out of 5. Told you shortest review ever… Actually I need to dig deeper into the film!
Based on a play of the same name written by director and leading man John Pollono, Small Engine Repair tells the story of Frank (Pollono), Swaino (Bernthal) and Packie (Whigham). Three friends from small-town nowhere that have always been there for each other. We first meet our boys as Frank’s daughter Crystal (Ciara Bravo) has found out she is heading to university. One thing is for sure the love these men have for Crystal is unshakeable. After a night out to celebrate the bond between our boys becomes somewhat strained. We jump...
- 9/14/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Stars: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sally Phillips, Adrian Edmondson, Carol Cleveland, Stephen Marcus, Sarine Sofair, Omri Rose, Harriet Madly, Laura Swift, Kevin Leslie, Laurence Kennedy, Connor Williams, Sophie MIller-Sheen, Michael Fatogun | Written and Directed by Matt Mitchell
Despite the nondescript title, The Facility is actually a sequel to 2017’s British zombie horror The Rizen, and originally debuted in 2019 on the festival circuit as The Rizen: Possession… a title which clearly marks out where the film is headed and what we should expect. So why the title change? Maybe because the sequel has been released by a different distributor who, selfishly, didn’t want to give the first films release any publicity as they didn’t release it or – and I want to say this is the more logical reason – The Rizen wasn’t actually that well received on its release and the distributor wanted to distance this film from the original. Plus,...
Despite the nondescript title, The Facility is actually a sequel to 2017’s British zombie horror The Rizen, and originally debuted in 2019 on the festival circuit as The Rizen: Possession… a title which clearly marks out where the film is headed and what we should expect. So why the title change? Maybe because the sequel has been released by a different distributor who, selfishly, didn’t want to give the first films release any publicity as they didn’t release it or – and I want to say this is the more logical reason – The Rizen wasn’t actually that well received on its release and the distributor wanted to distance this film from the original. Plus,...
- 2/2/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Maika Monroe deserves to be a massive star. She first came on to my, and many folks’, radar with her tremendous turn in It Follows. More than just a scream queen in the making, Monroe had an X factor about her that suggested greatness. She again shows that in the new comedic thriller Villains, which teams her up with three other massively entertaining performances to craft a wholly surprising delight. Opening this week, the film easily could have been little more than a knock off of Quentin Tarantino’s work, but instead, it finds its own quirky wavelengths and delights from start to finish. The movie is a mixture of comedy, drama, horror, and thriller, all told with the allure of a crime caper. Jules (Monroe) and Mickey (Bill Skarsgård) are a couple hoping to rob their way to a new life in Florida. After holding up a gas station,...
- 9/18/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Cinematographer Matt Mitchell lensed Little Woods, which world premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival where writer/director Nia DaCosta won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Nora Ephron Award. Shortly thereafter, the film was acquired by Neon and is currently in theaters. Little Woods is a modern Western about two women in rural America. Shot in Texas, but set in North Dakota, the film is a carefully composed drama, while also very much feeling like an emotionally-charged thriller. I sat down with Mitchell before last year’s festival premiere to talk about how he went about creating the look and feel of the […]...
- 4/25/2019
- by Chris Ohlson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Cinematographer Matt Mitchell lensed Little Woods, which world premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival where writer/director Nia DaCosta won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Nora Ephron Award. Shortly thereafter, the film was acquired by Neon and is currently in theaters. Little Woods is a modern Western about two women in rural America. Shot in Texas, but set in North Dakota, the film is a carefully composed drama, while also very much feeling like an emotionally-charged thriller. I sat down with Mitchell before last year’s festival premiere to talk about how he went about creating the look and feel of the […]...
- 4/25/2019
- by Chris Ohlson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
There are some films that provoke myriad thoughts and emotions that stay with you long after you’ve seen the film. Then there are other movies like “Little Woods” that leave you almost completely empty.
That’s not to say that writer-director Nia DaCosta’s latest isn’t good; it’s just cold and merciless, which is compounded by Matt Mitchell’s desolate cinematography capturing a frigid Midwest town. The movie centers on a pair of sisters, Ollie (Tessa Thompson) and Deb (Lily James) who are down on their luck. Their mom just passed away. They are perennially short on funds. They’re about to lose their mother’s home. Oh, and Deb just found she’s pregnant, again. Ollie can’t really help out because she recently completed a jail stint after getting busted for selling their mom’s prescription drugs. She’s only got a few more days...
That’s not to say that writer-director Nia DaCosta’s latest isn’t good; it’s just cold and merciless, which is compounded by Matt Mitchell’s desolate cinematography capturing a frigid Midwest town. The movie centers on a pair of sisters, Ollie (Tessa Thompson) and Deb (Lily James) who are down on their luck. Their mom just passed away. They are perennially short on funds. They’re about to lose their mother’s home. Oh, and Deb just found she’s pregnant, again. Ollie can’t really help out because she recently completed a jail stint after getting busted for selling their mom’s prescription drugs. She’s only got a few more days...
- 4/18/2019
- by Candice Frederick
- The Wrap
What’s it like living strapped in America? Little Woods, an uneven but compelling feature debut from writer-director Nia DaCosta, takes you right into the trenches. Things are booming in the remote town of Little Woods, North Dakota, as long as you’re in the oil business. But if you’re Ollie (Tessa Thompson), out on probation after doing time for smuggling drugs in from Canada, all you feel is the agony of having your options squeezed. She can barely hold onto the house where she cared for her now-deceased mother.
- 4/17/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Good news: cinephiles won’t have to wait long for A24’s mystery sci-fi project. Last week, the tastemaker studio dropped a trailer that featured plenty of haunting imagery, but had zero information about what it actually was. However, eagle-eyed fans have deduced from a still of Sundance short “Toru,” along with pictures of the set, that the short is A24’s project in question. While dreams of a possible Shane Carruth film have been dashed, “Toru” sounds quite intriguing, and A24 has had a good track record with sci-fi in “Ex Machina.”
Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap, shot by Dp Matt Mitchell (“The Stakelander”) and featuring a score by Brian McComber (“Krisha”), “Toru” is about how “an infant’s life is transformed by a new technology.” The short is fourteen minutes long and in Japanese with English subtitles, featuring the cast of Ai Kiyono, Yasu Suzuki, Tatsuo Ichikawa,...
Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap, shot by Dp Matt Mitchell (“The Stakelander”) and featuring a score by Brian McComber (“Krisha”), “Toru” is about how “an infant’s life is transformed by a new technology.” The short is fourteen minutes long and in Japanese with English subtitles, featuring the cast of Ai Kiyono, Yasu Suzuki, Tatsuo Ichikawa,...
- 1/17/2017
- by Elizabeth MacLeod
- The Playlist
The sun sheds light on a bleak apocalyptic landscape in the new poster for Stake Land II, coming out on home media this February from Dark Sky Films.
Press Release: New York, NY - Stake Land set a new standard in vampire apocalypse thrillers in 2011, and now the eagerly awaited sequel arrives to push the story and its characters to the next shocking level. Stake Land II, again starring Nick Damici and Connor Paolo, will be available across digital platforms on February 7, 2017. The film will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 14, 2017.
Stake Land II, a Dark Sky Films presentation of a Glass Eye Pix production in association with Berserker Entertainment and Last Pictures, is a new adventure set several years after the events in Stake Land, in which mankind must struggle to survive in the wake of a vampire apocalypse. When his home in New Eden is...
Press Release: New York, NY - Stake Land set a new standard in vampire apocalypse thrillers in 2011, and now the eagerly awaited sequel arrives to push the story and its characters to the next shocking level. Stake Land II, again starring Nick Damici and Connor Paolo, will be available across digital platforms on February 7, 2017. The film will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 14, 2017.
Stake Land II, a Dark Sky Films presentation of a Glass Eye Pix production in association with Berserker Entertainment and Last Pictures, is a new adventure set several years after the events in Stake Land, in which mankind must struggle to survive in the wake of a vampire apocalypse. When his home in New Eden is...
- 1/12/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Martin and Mister reunite in a world dominated by bloodsuckers in the official trailer for Stake Land II, which premiered on the Syfy channel earlier this year and will come out on Blu-ray and DVD in February from Dark Sky Films.
Press Release: New York, NY - Stake Land set a new standard in vampire apocalypse thrillers in 2011, and now the eagerly awaited sequel arrives to push the story and its characters to the next shocking level. Stake Land II, again starring Nick Damici and Connor Paolo, will be available across digital platforms on February 7, 2017. The film will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 14, 2017.
Stake Land II, a Dark Sky Films presentation of a Glass Eye Pix production in association with Berserker Entertainment and Last Pictures, is a new adventure set several years after the events in Stake Land, in which mankind must struggle to survive in...
Press Release: New York, NY - Stake Land set a new standard in vampire apocalypse thrillers in 2011, and now the eagerly awaited sequel arrives to push the story and its characters to the next shocking level. Stake Land II, again starring Nick Damici and Connor Paolo, will be available across digital platforms on February 7, 2017. The film will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 14, 2017.
Stake Land II, a Dark Sky Films presentation of a Glass Eye Pix production in association with Berserker Entertainment and Last Pictures, is a new adventure set several years after the events in Stake Land, in which mankind must struggle to survive in...
- 12/16/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Death is no escape" in a world overrun by bloodsuckers. Featuring the return of Martin and Mister, Glass Eye Pix's Stake Land II (which premiered earlier this year on the Syfy channel) will be released on digital platforms beginning February 7th, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on February 14th from Dark Sky Films.
Press Release: New York, NY - Stake Land set a new standard in vampire apocalypse thrillers in 2011, and now the eagerly awaited sequel arrives to push the story and its characters to the next shocking level. Stake Land II, again starring Nick Damici and Connor Paolo, will be available across digital platforms on February 7, 2017. The film will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 14, 2017.
Stake Land II, a Dark Sky Films presentation of a Glass Eye Pix production in association with Berserker Entertainment and Last Pictures, is a new adventure set several years...
Press Release: New York, NY - Stake Land set a new standard in vampire apocalypse thrillers in 2011, and now the eagerly awaited sequel arrives to push the story and its characters to the next shocking level. Stake Land II, again starring Nick Damici and Connor Paolo, will be available across digital platforms on February 7, 2017. The film will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning February 14, 2017.
Stake Land II, a Dark Sky Films presentation of a Glass Eye Pix production in association with Berserker Entertainment and Last Pictures, is a new adventure set several years...
- 12/2/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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