Writer/director J.T. Walker’s feature debut unfolds with quiet confidence, allowing its story to emerge through weathered faces, lingering glances, empty rooms, and the vast, unforgiving landscape of South Texas.
CHUM gleefully embraces its identity as a chaotic hybrid of shark thriller, relationship soap opera, revenge tale, and survival horror, throwing an increasingly unlikeable wedding party into the Mediterranean Sea and then asking audiences one very important question: Who deserves to get eaten first?
With HUNGRY, James Nunn delivers a clever, atmospheric, highly entertaining survival thriller that understands exactly how to manipulate audience assumptions while delivering plenty of swamp-soaked mayhem along the way.
“Constraints lead to creativity.” Those constraints ultimately became one of the film’s greatest strengths.
“We always put the characters first,” Tuck explains. “The plot brings our characters together, and we become attached to those people…The plot is secondary.”
“I was googling, ‘What are the most deadly animals on Earth?’” Nunn recalled with a laugh. “Hippos came up as one of the deadliest. It’s wild — they kill upwards of 500 people a year, more than sharks, lions, elephants combined.”
Check out the trailer for David Ayers’ HEART OF THE BEAST!
On June 5th, IFC brings us Jonathan Zuck’s shark-tastic CHUM! Just watch this trailer! There is no such thing as too much blood or too many sharks!
Is it August 21st yet? I am beyond enchanted by this trailer for THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE! Fantastical! Spellbinding! Kaleidoscopic! Magical!
As much as I always love the TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Red Carpet, the presentations in Club TCM in the Blossom Room (the site of the first Academy Awards) at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel are always a favorite of mine, and this year was no exception.
Disney, Pixar, and cute woodland animals? Say no more! Count me in for HOPPERS! Check out the trailer and first images for this animated delight.
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Get ready for one last time with the Crawleys in DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE.
