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VFW Official Poster Reveals A Squad Of Soldiers Back In Old Habits

VFW Review: Joe Begos’s Dystopian Siege Thriller Takes A Piercing Look At The Measure Of A Man At Any Age

Seven years since his 2013 feature, Almost Human, it is safe to say filmmaker Joe Begos is having a pretty good run these days. The attention he’s drawn after last year’s Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of Bliss is hugely deserved, and all for the better as RLJE Films looks to roll out his most recent success, VFW. Penned by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle in their feature scripting debut, Begos’ VFW presents an immersive, heavily contoured, gritty and dark rollercoaster into a nightmaring, decadent suburbia, where for a vengeful young woman standing against a seemingly unstoppable evil, old soldiers are all that’s in a rural town without heroes or hope. America is a lawless, opioid-addicted and near-apocalyptic version of itself, topped by the explosive popularity of a new powdered stimulant known as ‘Hype’. The new drug is all there is to live for, including for the insatiable residents within […]

V.F.W. Trailer: Joe Begos’s New Siege Thriller Brings The War Home

Lee B. Golden III

Director Joe Begos had a hit on his hands this year with the release his illustrious and vampiric horror noir, Bliss. He’s since been on the trail and keeping busy with one other peculiar looking thriller in V.F.W., which casts a hard-edged roster of actors including Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe), Martin Kove (YouTube’s Cobra Kai), Fred Williamson (From Dusk Til Dawn) and William Sadler (Die Hard 2: Die Harder) among others for its line-up. THE WILD BUNCH meets NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the film follows Fred and his military buddies as they must defend their local V.F.W. (Veterans of Foreign Wars) post – and an innocent teen – against a deranged drug dealer and his relentless army of punk mutants. These Vietnam vets have been to hell and back, but this will be the longest night of their lives. EW presented the official trailer on Tuesday with statements from […]

Screener Review: ATOMIC EDEN (2016)

Lee B. Golden III

Director Nico Sentner‘s efforts in film are well embedded with credits of up to at least ten years of work on both sides of the camera, so his skillset is pretty workable to that effect. However, that doesn’t bode too highly when measuring the shortcomings of an independent production, and so while some titles deserve a curve, it’s a curve to be used with a grain of salt judging by one’s own taste. For this, we get a look at Sentner’s feature debut, Atomic Eden, which mainly rests its laurels of the glory of B-movie action fandom. Actor Fred Williamson leads the film with a story focused on a ragtag team of mercenaries and soldiers who convene at an abandoned Chernobyl mining complex under the orders of their old friend and team leader, Stoker, played by Williamson. Once there, not all the details of the mission are made clear and […]

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Bill Goldberg, Fred Williamson And More Line Up At Thomas J. Churchill's CHECK POINT!

Lee B. Golden III

Actor and director Thomas J. Churchill (Emerging Past, Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead) has taken his craft in the field of horror and suspense into Wilmington, North Carolina as of Monday for the production of his new film, Check Point. The film boasts a prominent cast of actors, including several that many moviegoers will recognize, with actor William Forsythe in the lead as a small town sheriff whose apprehension of a drifter segways his inquiry into the gruesome and supernatural. The plot is a little vague in terms of twists which does make things a little more interesting as things thicken, and so I do have my own ideas of where this could go. At any rate though, the cast roster, led by Forsythe and actor Kenny Johnson, is almost literally a who’s-who in cult fandom, including Metal Hurlant Chronicles and Mortal Kombat Legacy 2 co-star, actress Michelle Lee actor, […]

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The New Trailer For ATOMIC EDEN Lists The Who's Who Of Heroes

Lee B. Golden III

Two years after filmimg his newest contained action thriller, Atomic Eden, director Nico Sentner is finally back in the fray for the film’s promotional push with a new trailer you can check out at the bottom of the page. The film is the latest reuinion for Sentner who co-executive produced actor Mike Moller‘s starring role in the 2011 martial arts thriller, Urban Fighter (a.k.a. Arena Of The Street Fighter) from German produciton group, Generation X Group GmbH Film & Medienprodiktion. And based on the latest trailer, the CGI is a little gamey, but it does offer the usual montage of action sequences to garner the attention of action fans alike. Plus, if you’re into a little girl-on-girl, then there’s some of that too. Moller joins lead actor Fred Williamson and Lorenzo Lamas, with Hazuki Kato and Everett Ray Aponte. Check out the trailer below. SYNOPSIS: A mercenary team that find themselves […]