Author David Watson

Following a tragic car crash that leaves an infant dead, expectant mother Eveleigh (Isla Fisher) and her husband David (Anson Mount) swap their hectic big city lifestyles for the simpler pleasures of the...

  With their first film The Violators due in UK cinemas, writer/director Helen Walsh and actress Lauren McQueen sit down with Movie Ramblings’ David Watson to discuss transgressive teenage...

Having spent a year collecting favourable reviews on the world festival circuit, one of the more interesting, challenging Brit flicks that played last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival,...

It’s the End of the World as we know it. Again. But this time, instead of nuclear war, peak oil, disease or zombie apocalypse, the mechanism of our passing has been left rather ambiguous. Women seem to have...

Opening with Papa Was A Rolling Stone and a teenaged boy’s midnight wank disturbed by a naked, drug-addled porn star fatally crashing her car through his house before introducing us to it’s two scuzzy...

Not every film that gets made is released. Or deserves to be released. At least not right away. Somewhere, maybe in that warehouse we see at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, there is a high, dusty shelf. On...

A disparate bunch of elite online gamers receive cryptic clues via their smartphones giving them the opportunity to test a new state-of-the-art Virtual Reality game and win a $100,000 cash prize in the...

If you’ve ever read anything I’ve ever written, one thing should be abundantly clear – when it comes right down to it, at my dark little heart, I am a bitter, mean-spirited turnip. Sure, every once in...

Waking up on Thanksgiving after a one-night stand with the hottest guy in Portland, Maine, sassy, awkward Deb (Maria Thayer) is not exactly over the moon when the night before’s dream lover, spiritual vegan...

When an unlikely American pickpocket in Paris, Michael (Game Of Thrones' ill-fated King In The North, Richard Madden), steals the bag belonging to Parisienne gamine Zoe (Charlotte Le Bon) he gets more than...

Couple In A Hole, Belgian writer/director Tom Geens’ second feature is, well, it’s about a couple who live in a hole. The couple, John (Paul Higgins) and Karen (Kate Dickie), are (formerly) middle class...

In the early hours, hungover and afflicted by existential ennui, Hollywood wunderkind Thomas (Garrett Hedlund playing the kind of terminally cool, critically feted actor/director/artist filmmaking polymath...

Ballardian /ˌbæladiən/ adjective of James Graham Ballard (1930–2009), the British novelist, or his works   resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard's novels and...

I hate camping. Or at least I would if I ever went camping. In the 30 or so years since I left the Scouts somewhat under a cloud (illicit booze, modelling glue and some visiting Girl Guides were...

Idealistic young Columbia University student Justine (Lorenza Izzo) is entranced by Chelsea Che Guevara, Alejandro (Ariel Levy), joining his eco-activist group of earnest acolytes and accompanying them to the...

Four old men (Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvyn Douglas and the inimitable John Houseman), lifelong friends who all themselves the Chowder Society, meet on a regular basis to drink and tell ghost...

It’s 1957 and as American children learn to Duck And Cover in the classroom, the Cold War stalemate between the West and the Soviets threatens to heat up at any moment, both sides poised with their fingers...

Intent on finding his missing wife Ana (Lorenza Izzo) and travelling only by night (that’s not ominous at all), the taciturn titular stranger, Martin (Christobal Tapia Montt), appears at the door of teenage...

After failing to secure a coveted promotion at work, train guard Joe (Ed Speleers) finds himself relegated to the graveyard shift on the last train out of Waterloo. It’s the usual collection of drunks, tired...

Opening this week across the UK, Movie Ramblings' David Watson caught up with director Karen Guthrie to talk about her bittersweet, multi-award winning documentary The Closer We Get.   DW: Really loved...

“You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family!” As sayings go, it’s one my mother has always been fond of quoting, normally when an aunt or a cousin does something particularly...