Author David Watson

Squat and stocky, with her heavy brow and practically Neanderthal features, Swedish customs officer Tina (Eva Melander) may be a figure of fun to some of the travelers passing through the border ferry...

Imagine Homer Simpson’s snowplough-driving alter ego Mr Plow was mad as Hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore, turning vigilante to clean up the streets and accidentally kicking off a Yojimbo-style mob...

“Brave”… “Brave” is what film critics call it when an actress pushes her boundaries and uglies herself up to play the kind of role Christian Bale or Leonardo DiCaprio or Russell Crowe take as...

A bold, bloody, genre bending, cyberpunk/body horror mash-up where Siri turns psycho, perhaps the most shocking thing about Leigh Whannell’s gobsmackingly violent, balls-to-the-wall Upgrade is it’s only...

Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) is a helluva nice guy. Just ask any of the staff and patrons of the banks he robs.  70 years old and refusing to go quietly into that good night, gentleman thief and escape...

A former Navy SEAL-turned-black ops specialist, Jack Collins (Milo Gibson) tracks and assassinates terrorists for the CIA, handling the jobs that are too hot for official sanction, terminating with extreme...

Sub-text is everything.  Horror, the best horror, has always reflected the times we live in. In the ‘40s and ‘50s, the spectre of Hiroshima loomed over the likes of Godzilla and Them! our nuclear sins...

Social media sex scandals, poisonous gossip, cyber bullying, toxic masculinity, paranoia and hysteria unite with deadly results in Sam Levinson’s post-modern millennial riff on the Salem Witch Hunt,...

Remakes. Remakes are tricky. We live in a risk averse world of franchise filmmaking, of reboots and remakes, of sequels and prequels. There’s nothing the Dream Factory likes better than a known quantity, a...

OBEY “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum!” declares the heavily armed protagonist of John Carpenter’s They Live (re-released this week) just before he...

When his academic/architect father collapses during a lecture tour, Korean-American translator Jin (John Cho) finds himself marooned in the titular city as his comatose parent hovers on the brink of death....

So, it’s Halloween again (well, nearly). But you don’t just wanna watch Halloween again - or even the latest Michael Myers outing when it arrives. The problem is horror is such an eco-friendly genre,...

Like many young English men visiting Thailand, Billy Moore (Joe Cole) spends much of his time taking drugs, getting into fights and shagging ladyboys. Unlike most of them, Billy Moore does it inside one of...

In the dying days of World War 2, hunted by his comrades and the military police, terrified young German deserter Willi Herold (Max Hubacher) stumbles across an abandoned officer’s uniform and, freezing,...

Imagine they remade The Lavender Hill Mob. But they were all “fackin’ caaaaaants!”  And it’s not funny. In a nutshell, that’s Man On Wire director James Marsh’s King Of Thieves, the...

Arriving at her wealthy, married boyfriend Richard’s (Kevin Janssens) remote, secluded desert hideaway, a hideaway so remote it can only be reached by helicopter, Jen (a wonderful Matilda Lutz) soon finds...

A monster haunts the woods of Devil’s Den. Pitiless and cruel, it hunts and kills those foolhardy or desperate enough to encroach on it’s territory, stalking them, slaughtering them, eating it’s...

As plague ravages the 17th century countryside of Lithuania, an isolated Jewish community is faced with destruction when the neighbouring gentile village holds them responsible for the epidemic and...

On the eve of a tour of the USA, during a raucous post-rehearsal party in a disused school, a street-dance troupe find that the big bowl of sangria they’re drinking has been spiked with LSD and the...

Still haunted by the murder of her parents two decades before by a vengeful Elder God, Ren Reid (Samantha Schnitzler) is an agent at the Artemis Black Site, a secret underground military base where captured...

Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” Lugging a mysterious leather holdall, disgraced children’s entertainer Philip (Sean Harris) returns to his grim, desolate Norfolk hometown and...