Author David Watson

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’, childminding in...

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...

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 stop from...

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...

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...

At some point in their adolescence, every teenager has wished their parents were dead. Rather than summon a demon straight from Hell however most of us just retreated to our rooms for a weep and a wank,...

It’s Spring Break Bitches! But rather than purchase some pink balaclavas and embark on a drug and sex-fuelled crime spree with a cornrowed sleazebag gangsta, good girl Olivia (Lucy Hale) and her cookie...

Released in the UK just in time for Easter, Lion director Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene offers us a po-faced, would-be-feminist revisionist, New Age Passion Play that seeks to rehabilitate one of the New...

When a mysterious radio signal, beamed across the galaxy, is received by a human, but wholly alien civilisation, two scientists are selected to investigate the source of the transmission.  The products of...

You know how it is. You wait decades for a movie about doomed amateur yachtsman and conman Donald Crowhurst and then two come along at once.  Still to find a release date, we can look forward to Simon...

Given the shadow they’ve cast over Anglo-Irish relations for the last 50 years, it’s strange how few decent films have come out of the Troubles and of those that have, how few have grappled directly with...

Despite Liam Neeson’s threats to retire from being everyone’s favourite superannuated action man, The Commuter proves there’s ludicrous life in the old brawler yet, reuniting Neeson with his Unknown and...

Still mourning the death of his wife, tough LA cop Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) struggles to connect with his wayward adult son Trent (Jonny Weston). But when an alien invasion decimates the City of Angels,...

“This is the Universe. Big, isn’t it?” a voice intones at the start of A Matter Of Life And Death as we drift through the Cosmos, through the Milky Way, our Solar System, past the Moon, down through our...

Literally shoveling shit for a living emptying septic tanks, Chip (Matthew Gray Guber) isn’t exactly one of life’s winners. But he’s happy, content almost, and puppyishly in love with his dominating...

For globe-trotting playboy wastrel JC (Alexander Polli) and best bud Chico (Carlos Briceno Schutte) life is one endless party. Rock stars of the BASE jumping community, they roam the world, visiting iconic...

After a drug deal with Mexican gangster Eleazar (Dion Mucciacito) and his trigger-happy goons turns messily violent, stoic, principled drug runner Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) is forced to kill one of his...

Empowered Muslim lawyer Leila (Mouna Hawa) and lesbian Christian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) share a flat and a party-girl lifestyle, rejecting the patriarchal strictures of their respective traditions in favour...

Two young disabled men working together on their own comic book, wheelchair user Zoli (Zoltán Fenyvesi) and Barba (Adám Fekete) who has cerebral palsy, find life imitating art and their lives turned upside...

Estranged sisters Leah (Francesca Eastwood) and Vee (Taryn Manning) are forced to put aside their simmering resentment when brother Michael (Scott Haze) screws up and finds himself owing a lot of money to some...

Plagued by a painful condition that causes her flesh to dry and peel, sloughing off like snake skin, beautiful, young Kira (Rebecca Forsythe) experiences a disquieting sense of déjà vu when visiting upmarket...