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Galveston

Galveston (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / US / 91 minutes “The past isn’t real. You remember it how you want to remember it.” Director: Melanie Laurent / Screenplay: Jim Hammett, based on the novel by Nic Pizzolatto / Director of Photography: Arnaud Potier / Music: Marc Chouarain and Eugenie Jacobson / Production: Tyler Davidson for Low Spark Films / Cast: Ben Foster (Roy), Elle Fanning (Rocky), Maria Valverde (Carmen), Beau Bridges (Stan), Lili Reinhart (Tiffany), Adepero Oduye (Loraine), Robert Aramayo (Tray), C.K. McFarland (Nancy). In 2008, ex- convict Roy Cady (Ben Foster) is living in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Ike approaches. Twenty years earlier, Roy was working as a hitman for small-time gangster Stan (Beau Bridges) in New Orleans. Just after Roy’s girlfriend Carmen (Maria Valverde) leaves him for his boss, he’s mistakenly diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.    Sent on a seem...
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Mandy

Mandy (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / US / 121 minutes “For a while now, word’s been coming down that there’s something dark and fearsome out there…” Director: Panos Cosmatos / Screenplay: Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn / Director of Photography: Benjamin Loeb / Music: Johann Johannsson / Production: Martin Metz, Daniel Noah, Adrian Politowski and Elijah Wood for XYZ Films / Cast: Nicolas Cage (Red Miller), Andrea Riseborough (Mandy Bloom), Linus Roache (Jeremiah Sand), Bill Duke (Caruthers), Ned Dennehy (Brother Swan), Clement Baronnet (Brother Klopek), Alexis Julemont (Brother Hanker). The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) lives in a small cabin in the woods with his younger, artist girlfriend, Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough). Red works as a logger while Mandy is a cashier at a remote gas station. From what we see of Red and Mandy’s interactions, it seems that he is a reco...
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Hurricane

Hurricane (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / Poland-UK / 107 minutes “You teach us MPH not KPH, gallons not litres, feet instead of metres… But the one thing we all already know how to do is fly!” Director: David Blair / Screenplay: Robert Ryan and Alastair Galbraith / Director of Photography: Piotr Sliskowski / Music: Laura Rossi / Production: Krystian Kozlowski and Mathew Whyte for Stray Dog Films / Cast: Iwan Rheon (Jan Zumbach), Milo Gibson (John Kent), Stefanie Martini (Phyllis Lambert), Krystof Hadek (Josef Frantisek), Marcin Dorocinski (Witold Urbanowicz), Manuel Klein (Trost), Rosie Gray (Georgina), Marc Hughes (Ellis), William Nash (Naval Controller), Karolina Zajac (Civilian 1), Monika Walczak (Civilian 2). In the run- up to the eightieth anniversaries of the Dunkirk evacuation, the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, two high- profile British films, Christopher Nolan’s outstanding Dunkirk (20...
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Bumblebee

Bumblebee (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / US / 114 minutes “They literally call themselves “Decepticons”! That doesn’t set off any red flags?” Director: Travis Knight / Screenplay: Christina Hodson / Director of Photography: Enrique Chediak / Music: Dario Marianelli / Production: Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian for Paramount Pictures / Cast: Hailee Steinfeld (Charlie), Jorge Lendeborg, Jr. (Memo), John Cena (Agent Burns), John Ortiz (Dr. Powell), Dylan O’Brien (Bumblebee), Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime), Angela Bassett (Shatter), Justin Theroux (Dropkick). Michael Bay’s Transformers (2007) was a perfectly timed live action debut for the iconic ’80’s comic book and TV animation robots. Arriving not only at the right moment for CGI technology to properly do the concept photorealistic justice but also for the first generation of fans to introduce their own children t...
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Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2017 / US / 144 minutes “Did it never occur to you that that was why you were summoned in the first place? Designed to do nothing short of fall for her right then and there. That is, if you were designed…” Director: Denis Villeneuve / Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick / Director of Photography: Roger Deakins / Music: Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer / Production: Bud Yorkin, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove and Ridley Scott for Columbia Pictures / Cast: Ryan Gosling (“K”), Harrison Ford (Rick Deckard), Ana de Armas (Joi), Sylvia Hoeks (Luv), Robin Wright (Lieutenant Joshi), Mackenzie Davis (Mariette), Carla Juri (Dr. Ana Stelline), Lennie James (Mr. Cotton), David Bautista (Sapper Morton), Jared Leto (Niander Wallace), Edward James Olmos (Gaff), Barkhad Abdi (Doc...
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Detroit

Detroit (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2017 / US / 143 minutes “Nice try… But you have my statement: Police criminality needs to treated the same as any other form of criminality.” Director: Kathryn Bigelow / Screenplay: Mark Boal / Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd / Music: James Newton Howard / Production: Colin Wilson, Kathryn Bigelow, Matthew Budman, Mark Boal and Megan Ellison for Annapurna Pictures / Cast: John Boyega (Melvin Dismukes), Will Poulter (Krauss), Algee Smith (Larry Reed), Jacob Latimore (Fred Temple), Jason Mitchell (Carl Cooper), Hannah Murray (Julie Ann Hysell), Kaitlyn Dever (Karen Malloy), Jack Reynor (Demens), Anthony Mackie (Karl Greene), John Krasinski (Auerbach), Nathan Davis, Jr. (Aubrey Pollard, Jr.), Ben O’Toole (Flynn), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Aubrey Pollard, Sr.). In July 1967 the Detroit Police Department raided a party for returning black Vietnam veterans at an unlicense...
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Green Room

Green Room (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2016 / US / 95 minutes “If you back out now, I’ll tell them you’re Jewish!” Director: Jeremy Saulnier / Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier / Director of Photography: Sean Porter / Music: Brooke Blair and Will Blair / Production: Neil Kopp, Victor Moyers and Anish Savjani for Broad Green Pictures / Cast: Anton Yelchin (Pat), Imogen Poots (Amber), Alia Shawkat (Sam), Patrick Stewart (Darcy Banker), Callum Turner (Tiger), Joe Cole (Reece), Macon Blair (Gabe), Eric Edelstein (Justin), Mark Webber (Daniel), Brent Werzner (Werm), David W. Thompson (Tad), Taylor Tunes (Emily). Hard- working ground level Punk band The Ain’t Rights are struggling through a tour of the Pacific Northwest in their van. Lead vocalist Tiger (Callum Turner), guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) and drummer Reece (Joe Cole) have just had a show cancelled and agree to play a replac...
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