1.0 Movie Review: The Dead Don’t Die David Watson July 15, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews When polar fracking tips the Earth of its axis, the ordinary citizens of quiet Pennsylvanian small town Centerville find that not only are the days getting longer but the dead are rising from their graves...
3.0 Movie Review: She’s Missing David Watson July 8, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews When casino worker and amateur rodeo queen Jane (Eiza González) disappears, her best friend, local diner waitress Heidi (Lucy Fry) is the only person in their hardscrabble New Mexico town who even seems to...
3.0 Rental Review: The Night Sitter David Watson July 2, 2019 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice Posing as an innocent teenager, thief Amber (Elyse Dufour) cons her way into the mansion of wealthy occult expert Ted Hooper (Joe Walz) under the pretext of babysitting his neurotic, reclusive son Kevin (Jack...
4.0 Movie Review: The Captor David Watson June 18, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Stockholm Syndrome noun “feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim towards a captor.” Loosely based on the Norrmalmstorg bank...
4.0 Movie Review: Arctic David Watson May 10, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Marooned in the unforgiving, deadly Arctic wilderness after his plane crashes, stranded pilot Overgard (Mads Mikkelson) ekes out a desperate existence, his every waking moment a battle for survival as he...
3.0 DVD Review: Death Trench David Watson May 6, 2019 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice In the dying days of World War One, deep behind enemy lines in the wintry Ardennes Forest, British Military Intelligence have discovered an intricate underground bunker complex abandoned by the...
2.0 Movie Review: Once Upon A Time In London David Watson April 23, 2019 Movie Reviews Bish… Bosh… Bash… Wallop! “’AVE SOME OF THAT YOU FACKIN’ CAAAAAN’T!” Rip… Tear… Slash… Stab! “I’M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU DIRTY FACKIN’...
5.0 Movie Review: Prospect David Watson April 10, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Space really is the final frontier in writer/director team Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl’s audaciously lo-fi Sci-Fi/Western Prospect. Dragged around the galaxy by her fortune-hunting father Damon...
2.5 Rental Review: The Haunting Of Sharon Tate David Watson April 9, 2019 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice It’s nearly 50 years since the Age of Aquarius ended in the bloody quietus of Charles Manson’s Family’s murder spree and, “lucky” us, we’re getting at least 3 films that use Charlie and the...
4.0 Movie Review: Last Breath David Watson April 5, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews How long can you hold your breath? Breathing is a reflex action. It’s automatic. We do it unconsciously, without thinking, about 19,000 times a day. It’s natural. When we breathe in, our lungs...
3.5 Rental Review: Elizabeth Harvest David Watson April 2, 2019 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice ***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS*** Don’t read this review. Wait. Watch the film. Writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez’s psychosexual sci-fi/horror Elizabeth Harvest works best the less...
3.5 Movie Review: Eaten By Lions David Watson April 1, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews When the grandmother who’s raised them dies (their parents having inexplicably died when their hot air balloon crashed and they were eaten, well, by lions…), orphaned half-brothers Omar (Antonio Aakeel)...
3.0 Movie Review: A Trip To The Moon David Watson March 25, 2019 Movie Reviews Obsessed with the Moon and Apollo 11’s mission to it, geeky young outsider Tomas (Angelo Mutti Spinetta) yearns for his sexy older neighbour Iris (Angela Torres) who he glimpses through his telescope while...
3.0 Movie Review: Border David Watson March 7, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
3.5 Movie Review: Cold Pursuit David Watson February 23, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: Destroyer David Watson January 23, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews “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...
5.0 Rental Review: Upgrade David Watson January 8, 2019 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice 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...
4.0 Movie Review: The Old Man & The Gun David Watson December 6, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: All The Devil’s Men David Watson December 3, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 1 Comment 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...
3.5 Movie Review: Daddy’s Girl David Watson November 26, 2018 Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Assassination Nation David Watson November 21, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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,...