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On Oct. 1, 1942, a Japanese freighter carrying over 1,800 British POWs captured during the Battle of Hong Kong was torpedoed by an American sub. The chaos that followed — wherein members of the Japanese army shot any prisoner aiming to swim to safety while a slew of fishing boats helped in their rescue — resulted in more than 800 of those British soldiers dying. Tracing that little-known event and the vast grief it left behind in the UK, Fang Li’s “The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru” nevertheless feels like a dull history lesson that’s truncated by its many ambitions.

Li is front and center in his documentary. The trained geophysicist-turned-filmmaker has spent much of his life exploring the world underwater. That’s how he’d first learned about the Lisbon Maru, whose remains were believed to still be at the bottom of the ocean, never having been found nor studied — nor, as it happens,...

Stars: Tony Banham, Abigail Bush, Elodie Angel, Lewis Cook, Sophie Anna Bel, Laura Ollerton, Ollie Mullen, Miti Goneos, Stos Goneos | Written and Directed by Jp Thomson

At only thirty minutes long this short film set in real-time builds up to that time of its title 11pm. Apparently, the time when most disappearances occur – one of the claims of the movie is this is because of the time pubs closed but I’m not sure that’s really a thing now. That said I like the idea of something building up to a set time when you know something will happen. It gives the movie a focus and a sense of tension from the off.

Unfortunately, 11pm (aka Never Be Alone At 11pm) never lives up to its ideas often coming across as some sort of experimental movie. We witness conversations over a bar with super close-ups of the people talking.

We have a brand new trailer for Paintball Massacre. Given the state of movie theaters right now, moviegoers are going to be left with precious few options throughout the rest of 2020. At least compared to any normal year. As such, we are going to largely be left with what is available to stream from the comfort of home. The folks at Uncork'd Entertainment are providing us with a rather unique option here, as we are getting a horror movie centered around a game of paintball. Per the studio, viewers need to "get ready for a deadly family reunion!"

The trailer kicks off with a group of former school friends getting together for a reunion, though there is some skepticism amongst them. They then decide to arrange for a game of paintball, of all things, with one member of their group particularly uninterested in the idea. But she goes along with it anyway.