2.0 Movie Review: King Of Thieves David Watson September 12, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Imagine they remade The Lavender Hill Mob. But they were all “fackin’ caaaaaants!â€Â And it’s not funny. In a nutshell, that’s Man On Wire director James...
5.0 DVD Review: Revenge David Watson September 6, 2018 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice 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...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Dark David Watson September 2, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Golem David Watson September 2, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Climax David Watson September 1, 2018 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Black Site David Watson August 27, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Possum David Watson August 27, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Lifechanger David Watson August 27, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Waking up naked next to a desiccated corpse that bears more than a passing resemblance to herself seems nothing new for Emily (Elitsa Bako). Or at least it’s nothing new for Drew (voiced by Bill Oberst...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Tigers Are Not Afraid David Watson August 26, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews n a world ruled by violence, only tigers are not afraid. But it’s hard to be a tiger when even the safety of your classroom is regularly violated by gunfire and violence. Cowering on the floor during a...
2.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: White Chamber David Watson August 26, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews It’s the near future and, in post-Brexit Britain, bloody civil war rages between the fascistic, totalitarian government and the equally brutal rebel militia, the poor and dispossessed trapped between...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Piercing David Watson August 24, 2018 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Tormented by the urge to murder his newborn baby, we first meet family man and closet psychopath Reed (Christopher Abbott) standing over the cot and contemplating driving an ice pick into the...
3.0 Movie Review: Life After Flash David Watson August 20, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews “GORDON’S ALIVE?†Yes, yes, he is. Nearly 40 years after the film that made and then broke him, filmmaker Lisa Downs goes in search of Saviour of the Universe, Flash Gordon aka Sam J....
5.0 Review: Netfl!x And Kill David Watson August 4, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews An idea so good it’s almost surprising no one’s done it before, Egomaniac director Kate Shenton returns with 8-part web series Netfl!x And Kill, riffing on Gogglebox and The Collector to bring us...
2.0 Movie Review: Hotel Artemis David Watson July 23, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Hotel Artemis? More like Hotel Artifice! Am I right? Goddamn right I’m right. Not exactly boding well for Starz’s rumored TV show The Continental, which will take us behind the front desk...
3.5 Movie Review: Racer And The Jailbird (La Fidele) David Watson July 16, 2018 Movie Reviews When suave, hunky and confident gangster Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets beautiful, strong-willed racecar driver Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos) at the racetrack it’s love at first sight in Bullhead and...
2.0 Movie Review: The Secret Of Marrowbone David Watson July 16, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Fleeing their past, four English siblings – Jack (George MacKay), Jane (Mia Goth), Billy (Charlie Heaton) and Sam (Matthew Stagg) - and their ailing mother arrive in the sleepy little town on...
4.0 DVD Review: Mom And Dad David Watson July 12, 2018 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice I don’t have kids, a fact for which humanity should forever count their blessings. But amongst the many careers I’ve tried on for size over the years was a stint as a ‘manny’,...
4.0 DVD Review: Journeyman David Watson July 4, 2018 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice 1 Comment Middle-aged and approaching the end of his career, middleweight boxing champ Matty Burton (Paddy Considine) is a journeyman fighter; a reliable, but not outstanding or particularly talented, professional...
5.0 DVD Review: I Kill Giants David Watson July 3, 2018 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice Friendless and alone, spiky weirdo Barbara (Madison Wolfe) knows she’s an awkward freak. She knows no one likes her. And she knows that everything she does looks crazy. But that’s not going to...
5.0 Movie Review: The Endless David Watson June 25, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Ten years after escaping the apocalyptic doomsday cult they were raised in, brothers Justin and Aaron (co-writers/directors Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) are barely getting by, living a practically...
4.0 Movie Review: Tully David Watson May 5, 2018 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Frazzled, forty-something mum of three Marlo (Charlize Theron) is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Perpetually exhausted, she’s already struggling as primary caregiver to daughter Sarah (Lia...