Author David Watson

After a massacre at an isolated farmhouse, a disparate group of 80's stereotypes (the reluctant hero cop with "issues", his ex-wife, an arsey student nurse, a pregnant girl and her protective grandfather, the...

After putting her in foster care as a child, successful artist and recovered drug addict Jess (Katee Sackhoff) is desperate to build some bridges with her now full-grown, stroppy teenage daughter Chloe (Lucy...

James Gray is a genius. He must be. Everyone says so. Since sloping onto the arthouse scene in 1995 with the comically melancholy Russian Jewish shoegazing hitman drama Little Odessa and earning a Silver Bear...

SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW “Loneliness can do strange things to the mind.” Few films leave me breathless. Shocked. Speechless. Unsettled. Disturbed. Like I’ve been filled top-to-toe with...

Divorced workaholic Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) hasn’t been the best of fathers lately, choosing the office over his daughter Su-an’s (Kim Su-an) recital and buying her the same game console for her birthday that...

More of an equal than a prequel or sequel, the events it depicts occurring simultaneously, Sang-ho Yeon's gritty animation Seoul Station charts at ground-level the runaway brushfire of the zombie apocalypse...

The zombie apocalypse has come and gone and humanity lost, the majority of the population reduced to mindless, ravenous monsters, “hungries”, by a fungal infection, passed by body fluids, that attacks...

Recovering from a broken heart and a nervous breakdown, sexy lovelorn witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) relocates to a small town in Northern California intent on starting a new life up among the Redwoods...

When his beloved dog dies, aging hippy piano teacher Winfried (Peter Simonischek) decides to pay his estranged 30-something daughter, corporate high-flyer Ines (Sandra Hüller), an impromptu visit in an...

What a difference a year makes. Well, half a year. This isn’t what I was originally going to write about The White King. Not at all. I first saw husband-and-wife team Alex Helfrecht and Jorg...

Can a film be evil? I'm not talking about cursed films. We've all heard tales of cursed films, usually films of a supernatural bent, The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, films where cast and crew members...

Physically and psychologically scarred after a brutal attack, agoraphobic music journalist Andrew (Interstellar’s David Gyasi) lives a solitary existence, hermetically sealed in his high-rise flat, never...

After a decade in the wilderness following his last film, the ill-judged Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, indie director Steven Shainberg returns with the last thing you’d expect, a genre movie,...

“Nobody is who you imagine them to be. We are probably a bit of a mystery even to ourselves.  In the end what matters is how many marks you’ve left behind.” Someone trying to leave as few marks...

Some times it takes an outsider to take a nation’s temperature. Armed with a lean, sharp script from Sicario scribe Taylor Sheridan, Scots director David Mackenzie does no less, serving up a spare, elegiac...

Still haunted by the first reel death of his douchebag best bud, extreme bike racing superstar Joe (Bryce Draper) is coaxed out of retirement by another douchebag best bud Pablo (Ariel Levy) who’s setting up...

Relapsing in a big way, barely functional drug addict Michael (Zack Gold) is just about keeping it together, hiding his habit from his loved ones and working all the hours God sends to pay for his wedding to...

It’s almost impossible to dilute writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter’s feature debut We Are The Flesh, to reduce it to something as simple and accessible as a synopsis but here goes… A brother...

Following a traumatic accident during the testing of a new deep-sea diving suit which almost costs her life, brilliant but highly strung marine biologist Olive (Anna Dawson) finds herself fired from mildly...

“Every apocalypse deserves an afterparty!” The apocalypse has come and gone and humanity has won the war against the undead. But if you still want to indulge your inner Rick Grimes, the ReZort is the...

How far would you go to make your life perfect? To start again, remake yourself, reboot your life? To be the best version of you that you can be? Would you walk out on your old life, abandon everyone and...