Author David Watson

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...

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 child’s...

“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. Jones. The...

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 a...

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 of the luxury...

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 The...

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 America’s...

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...