This is accentuated by the dreamy 16mm cinematography provided by director of photography Jake L Mitchell, as well as the film’s Western aesthetic, including the costuming and the wood cottage hideout of the film’s villains, the Enchanted Blade Gang. There’s contemporary technology (cell phones are mentioned), but the small town where the action takes place – Ribbon, Wyoming – almost feels removed from reality. There’s an otherworldly aspect to the world building of Riddle of Fire. Alas when they can’t secure one from the bakery, the quest for the ingredients to bake their own pie sends the trio on myriad adventures that occupy the rest of the day and into the night.
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In order to play, however, they need the TV password, and Hazel and Jodie’s sick mother Julie A’Dale ( Danielle Hoetmer) demands payment in the form of a blueberry pie.
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In the waning days of summer vacation before they’re shipped off to camp, pre-teen brothers Hazel ( Charlie Stover) and Jodie ( Skyler Peters), plus their more mature friend Alice ( Phoebe Ferro), steal an Angel gaming system from the nearby Oromo factory. Take, for example, the silly – and yes, child-like – inciting incident.
One of the great aspects of the film is its playfulness. In short: think Goonies meets Adventures in Babysitting with a touch of The Princess Bride‘s aesthetic. Like the best examples from the ’80s, however, there’s a persistent undercurrent of peril as the child characters are repeatedly put in danger with antagonists who won’t hesitate to harm or even murder them. This is evident from the film’s opening scene, which features ethereal folk music, heavily stylized cursive font, and fairytale language: “Are ye a knight or are ye a squire? Can ye solve the Riddle of Fire?” Weston Razooli’s Riddle of Fire has all of the hallmarks of a classic ’80s children adventure film, mixed with the quaintness of a British fairytale. There’s nothing quite like a throwback film – whether it’s driven by nostalgia or executed as a creative exercise, it’s fun to see how creatives handle the material. Lindsey Morgan, Alexander Siddig, Jonathan Howard, Rhona Mitra, and James Cosmo star. If you haven’t seen the previous two movies, you can probably just skip right ahead to Beyond Skyline and start from there. And much like Beyond Skyline before it, Skyline 3 looks like a wild and crazy good time, squeezing A LOT out of a small budget.
Yup, this time the humans are taking the fight to the aliens. In the third installment, “When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what’s left of humanity.” The third installment was written and directed by O’Donnell, and io9 brings us the word this week that it’s headed to select theaters and VOD on December 18, 2020. In the wake of 2010’s Skyline, director Liam O’Donnell took over for the wildly entertaining Beyond Skyline in 2017, and he’s back this year with trilogy-ender Skyline 3 (aka SKYLIN3S).
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