Nix shows up and starts gunning down thugs while trying to get to Miles. He then inadvertently interrupts a drug deal between two rival gangs. Miles phones the police and leaves his phone in a junkyard to provide the location. Following a face-off where he again fails to reason with Nix, Miles calls Nova but sees Riktor kidnapping her. Miles escapes in a stolen car and Nix chases him on a motorbike. Zander is shot in the head by Nix, who starts shooting up the office. Miles finally gets assertive by angrily pulling his guns after his continually condescending boss Zander insults him. Miles then goes to the office where he works so his friend Hadley can hack the Skizm tracking malware on his phone. Miles gets temporary help from a vagrant named Glenjamin. Degraves has his partner Stanton hack Nova’s phone so they can track Miles. ![]() Nova reports the situation to Detective Degraves. When Miles reveals what is happening to him, Nova flees in fright. After unsuccessfully attempting to recruit help from the police, Miles makes it to the park to meet his artist ex-girlfriend Nova Alexander, who tells Miles that she doesn’t want to get back together. Miles distracts her and she shoots up his apartment as he falls down the fire escape. ![]() Nix wants out of the games, but Riktor requires she kill Miles first. Miles learns that he has been forced to participate in Skizm by being pitted against Nix, the game’s deadliest killer. After being beaten and drugged, Miles wakes up to find guns bloodily bolted into both of his hands. Riktor, the criminal kingpin who runs Skizm, breaks into Miles’ apartment with his henchmen Dane, Effie, and Fuckface. Ordinary computer programmer Miles Lee Harris logs into Skizm’s forum to insult viewers who turn murder into entertainment. In an alternative near future, an underground fight club and a criminal organization known as Skizm has achieved massive popularity by live-streaming real death matches between criminals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing theatres worldwide, the film became available digitally on-demand less than three weeks after it was released theatrically. The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in New Zealand on 5 March 2020 by Madman Entertainment. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Grant Bowler, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby, Milo Cawthorne, Richard Knowles, and Mark Rowley. See it if you can-highly recommended.Guns Akimbo is a 2019 action comedy film written and directed by Jason Lei Howden. ![]() But Blood Punch has made a believer out of me. If you told me that a little movie like this could come along out of nowhere to seamlessly and successfully blend horror, film noir, and black comedy, I would have scoffed. In some ways, some might consider this more of an art-house movie than pure horror, more early Cohen Brothers than Sam Raimi-but it somehow manages to maintain that sense of rollicking good fun and attitude that is definitely rooted in the very best tradition of low-budget horror flicks. The three young actors who play the leads are also really impressive and convincingly carry the movie, keeping their characters grounded in reality and believable as real human beings, no matter what inexplicable chaos or craziness is berserking around them. The movie is incredibly smart in its storytelling and direction and really respects the intelligence of its' audience, challenging them to put two and two together on their own rather than spoon-feeding them information. But unlike a lot of movies that try to take you on a ride like this one, the twists and surprises that keep unfolding here never feel forced or unmotivated. But just when you think you know exactly where the whole thing is going, it begins taking delightfully clever supernatural twists and turns that keep on coming and coming, right up until the end of the movie. ![]() Regular guy Milton is lured by the scorching femme fatale Skyler into a scheme to cook up a gargantuan batch of crystal meth for her psychotic corrupt cop boyfriend, Russell. The story begins as a classic Film Noir Love Triangle. It's such a difficult movie to describe, especially without giving too much away. I saw this under-the-radar low-budget gem at the New Orleans Horror Film Festival a couple weeks back, where it pretty much blew myself and the entire packed house away and went on to walk away with that festival's Best Feature Film award.
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